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David Stockhoff · 15 Dec 2010, 23:23 · from 2010-December.txt.gz

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From: dstockhoff at verizon.net (David Stockhoff)
Date: Wed, 15 Dec 2010 18:23:14 -0500
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Yes, exactly. I meant "sci-fi," with the scare quotes.

Do you prefer "sf"?

The question is the same. Why create a "cyclical iterations of the same 
creation that keeps playing out in more or less the same pattern" 
fictional universe if it's fundamentally the same as ours?

On 12/15/2010 4:50 PM, Dan'l Danehy-Oakes wrote:
>
>
> On Wed, Dec 15, 2010 at 1:46 PM, DAVID STOCKHOFF 
> <dstockhoff at verizon.net <mailto:dstockhoff at verizon.net>> wrote:
>
>     I mean "similar," i.e., identical except for key differences. That
>     is, in the usual sci-fi sense that most people understand.
>
>
> H'mmm. Well, I would have said that the usual science-fictional sense 
> of "parallel universes" includes the idea that they are in some sense 
> moving along in time next to ours. The "mirror universe" in Star Trek 
> is a classic example.
>
> Also, please refrain (note that I am asking politely) from using the 
> term "sci-fi." Some find it very offensive.
>
> -- 
> Dan'l Danehy-Oakes
>


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