Wolfe at Nasfic

Jeff Wilson · 06 Aug 2007, 00:30 · from 2007-August.txt.gz

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From: jwilson at io.com (Jeff Wilson)
Date: Sun, 05 Aug 2007 19:30:31 -0500
Subject: (urth) Wolfe at Nasfic
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crownrw wrote:

> Gene was also on a "writing hard science fiction" panel in
> the afternoon and mentioned as his qualifications his one
> Analog story (or Analog-type story?, I didn't recall that he
> had ever published in Analog) the exact title of which
> escapes me but is about winning the first world war and the
> Long Sun series set on a "generation starship."

"How I Lost the Second World War and Helped Turn Back the German 
Invasion" is an alt-hist story that involves the quantum mechanics of 
transistors.

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Jeff Wilson - jwilson at io.com
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