The green man is fake

Jeff Wilson · 16 Jan 2011, 23:35 · from 2011-January.txt.gz

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From: jwilson at io.com (Jeff Wilson)
Date: Sun, 16 Jan 2011 17:35:36 -0600
Subject: (urth) The green man is fake
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On 1/16/2011 3:50 PM, Pedro Pereira wrote:
> Jesus guys/gals, this is a fantasy work, not "hard-scifi". IMHO you
> people are reading way to much into Wolfe when it comes to the actual
> science portrayed in the books. But that's just me.

Its nice to find an answer that works with the story and with the "real 
world", or at least reduce things to the single Wellsian impossibility.

-- 
Jeff Wilson - jwilson at io.com
Computational Intelligence Laboratory - Texas A&M Texarkana
< http://www.tamut.edu/CIL >

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