Like a good Neighbor

David Stockhoff · 25 Nov 2011, 14:15 · from 2011-November.txt.gz

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From: dstockhoff at verizon.net (David Stockhoff)
Date: Fri, 25 Nov 2011 09:15:25 -0500
Subject: (urth) Like a good Neighbor
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On 11/24/2011 11:58 AM, Lee Berman wrote:
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>> Gerry Quinn: Wolfe plays fast and loose with the laws of physics when it suits the story.
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> Actually, he doesn't. He is as meticulous as he can be. In this case it is completely
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> unnecessary for inhumi to fly through space. And they don't. Wolfe would not give us such
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> an implausible scientific impossibility unless there was a desperate need for it in the
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> story.


This could not be more wrong. Wolfe practices science fantasy, not 
engineering. If the bar is "desperate need," then he must be pretty 
desperate because all his works feature physical impossibilities. In 
fact, you could say they feature miracles.

Wolfe is only meticulous in his lying.

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