"Realistic fiction leaves out too much." - Gene Wolfe

James Wynn · 01 May 2011, 19:01 · from 2011-May.txt.gz

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From: crushtv at gmail.com (James Wynn)
Date: Sun, 01 May 2011 14:01:22 -0500
Subject: (urth) "Realistic fiction leaves out too much." - Gene Wolfe
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> Oh, I got that you were doing a dismissive person rather than speaking 
> for yourself, but when you include bogus trivia it can seem like you 
> actually didn't bother to read or see the original source; there are 
> no lasers in ST because they weren't quite invented yet when RAH wrote 
> it, and Wes Craven was not involved with that particular slasher movie 
> franchise.

Ah. Sorry Wes Craven. Brain-fart.  As for the lasers...well, I just 
liked the way it sounded. (Incidentally, the ST movie didn't use lasers 
either as far as I remember).

J.

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