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Subject: Re: Patra-Bannk and Constructed worlds
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Date: Fri, 13-Jul-84 12:39:55 EDT
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From:  decvax!ncoast!bsafw@Berkeley  (Brandon Allbery,524-1416)

	I like to hang on ideas.  It's the only way to survive that portion of
SF that is covered by Sturgeon's Law (the percentage is closer to 99% around
here, though).

	Other constructed worlds:  The best I have yet read of is Ringworld;
unfortunately, the local modified Law keeps me from seeing many others -- or is
it that SF authors don't write many of them?  If so, it's a pity -- lots of
GOOD ideas, and rarely are they treated with the mastery needed.  (Niven, yes,
but he enjoys weird settings; did I hear that his latest has people living in
a cloud in space?!)

	Does anyone have any good constructed-world ideas they'd either like to
see written about, or RE-written about by someone who knows what he's doing?

--
		Brandon Allbery: decvax!cwruecmp{!atvax}!bsafw
		  6504 Chestnut Road, Independence, OH 44131

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