Terminus Est

Jeff Wilson · 02 Jul 2008, 08:59 · from 2008-July.txt.gz

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From: jwilson at io.com (Jeff Wilson)
Date: Wed, 02 Jul 2008 03:59:23 -0500
Subject: (urth) Terminus Est
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Lane Haygood wrote:
> http://www.amazon.com/gp/reader/0312890176/ref=sib_dp_pt#reader-link
> 
> That's the cover of Shadow and Claw, with a pretty good picture.  TE is 
> actually a copy of a common medieval executioner's sword, like this one:
> 
> http://lh3.ggpht.com/_NbJ7tGRdKh0/SA5jUTfngHI/AAAAAAAAAhg/02p19YKx228/DSC01101.JPG
> 
> Except of course it has the mercury channel, which I ran by some 
> swordsmith friends of mine who told me that it wouldn't be possible to 
> actually make a mercury channel and fill it with mercury and have the 
> sword retain enough strength.  The spine of the sword is actually what 
> gives it its strength.

I understand that pistol-size rayguns and interstellar-range spacecraft 
are also not actually possible. Who does that Wolfe guy think he is fooling?

-- 
Jeff Wilson - jwilson at io.com
< http://www.io.com/~jwilson >

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