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From: bayes@hpfclg.UUCP (bayes)
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Subject: Re: Orphaned Response
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Date: Tue, 12-Feb-85 15:39:00 EST
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Nf-From: hpfclg!bayes    Feb 21 12:39:00 1985

Sure sounds like your Analog story is at least the basis for The
Flight of the Dragonfly (which I just read last week, so it's still
reasonably fresh in memory).

Did they send the exploration ship with a laser beam to accelerate it,
and decelerate by detaching part of the sail and reflecting back on
the ship at turnaround, as in the book version?

I think Forward tended to get a lot more pretentious in TFotD than he
was in Dragon's Egg. The humans started these (abortive?)
relationships, which never really got pursued later in the book. Fine,
if you're going to carry the thing through, otherwise just give me good
ol' concept type SF.

hpfcla!bayes
(pronounced "Throatwarbler-Mangrove")