second dream team

James Wynn · 23 Sep 2008, 01:52 · from 2008-September.txt.gz

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From: crushtv at gmail.com (James Wynn)
Date: Mon, 22 Sep 2008 20:52:48 -0500
Subject: (urth) second dream team
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Pedro said:
"That can surely be Wolfe's intention. All I say is that it is not real science and the problem only exists when people want to justify it using real world biochemistry. Wolfe is basically using some biological rules but not really limiting it to the realm of plausibility.  Not that it takes any value from Wolfe's books at all, mind you. As I said, his books are more like Flash Gordon on intelectual steroids."

I say:
Once when people argued that the giant god that the Raja spoke to in RttW was not biologically possible, Wolfe responded that that only meant that the god was not constructed the same way as we are. He said he was impatient with arguments about what is and is not possible in biology.

J
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