Problematic element in chronology - Red Giants

Fernando Gouvea · 29 May 2011, 19:44 · from 2011-May.txt.gz

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From: fqgouvea at colby.edu (Fernando Gouvea)
Date: Sun, 29 May 2011 15:44:49 -0400
Subject: (urth) Problematic element in chronology - Red Giants
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Alas, /A Brief History of Time/ was published in 1988, while BotNS was 
1980-83 and even /Urth of the New Sun/ was 1987.

Fernando

On 5/29/2011 2:53 PM, Sergei SOLOVIEV wrote:
> Also, somewhere in the "BotNS" it is mentioned A /Brief History of 
> Time/  (written by Stephen Hawking, subtitled "From the Big Bang to 
> Black Holes", but the author and subtitle are
> not mentioned by Wolfe). One of artefacts of our place and time
> in Wolfe's Solar cycle. (I would make a list
> of such curiosities.) It means that Wolfe himself knew
> the book, and probably knew well the science of black holes
> of our time. 

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