note Re: Short Sun blog

Gerry Quinn · 27 Sep 2010, 19:13 · from 2010-September.txt.gz

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From: gerryq at indigo.ie (Gerry Quinn)
Date: Mon, 27 Sep 2010 20:13:21 +0100
Subject: (urth) note Re: Short Sun blog
References: <443366.90533.qm at web84106.mail.mud.yahoo.com>
Message-ID: <7E268CC35C0E47E8BD217DEC0B128075@jill>

There's a story in the 'Endangered Species' collection involving some sort of 'dark matter' life.

- Gerry Quinn

  From: DAVID STOCKHOFF 
  Another possibility is that Wolfe simply chose to ignore those complications. As an engineer, he is sometimes very technical---see the remarkably elegant explanation presented in this list for the Long Sun. But he is not really a hard-SF kind of guy, not when details might get in the way, and maybe especially in terms of biology. And he's never proposed non-carbon life or non-iron blood in any story, as far as I know.
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