Wolfe at Nasfic

Mo Holkar / UKG · 06 Aug 2007, 08:37 · from 2007-August.txt.gz

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From: lists at ukg.co.uk (Mo Holkar / UKG)
Date: Mon, 06 Aug 2007 09:37:43 +0100
Subject: (urth) Wolfe at Nasfic
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At 01:30 06/08/2007, Jeff wrote:
>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.


And was first published in Analog (or "All New and Logical, Original 
Games" as it internally refers to it), in 1973.

Mo

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