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From: gsmith@brahms (Gene Ward Smith)
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Subject: Another Example of "Science" Fiction
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Date: Mon, 24-Nov-86 00:57:34 EST
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In article <825@sdcc7.ucsd.EDU> ee162fck@sdcc7.ucsd.EDU (Jude Poole) writes:

>By far the best sentient computer novel I have ever come across is
>'The two Faces of Tommorrow' by the best hard-sf writer around
>today, James P. Hogan.

   Since I am afraid people are sick of this "hard" sf discussion, I
will content myself by pointing out the fact that Hogan is another good
source for the claim that the "science" in so-called "hard" sf is typic-
ally baloney.  In fact, Hogan makes blunders so stupid that he makes
Niven seem like "Physics Review" by comparison.

ucbvax!brahms!gsmith     Gene Ward Smith/UCB Math Dept/Berkeley CA 94720
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only for a limited period of time. Why should we think that collectively,
as a nation, we are not bound by that same limitation?" -- Ronald Reagan