S&S vs. SF in BotNS

Gwern Branwen · 20 Dec 2011, 20:02 · from 2011-December.txt.gz

This is the message as the crawl holds it, before anything here touched it. What the conversation shows has been through ingest: transfer encodings decoded, attachments dropped, quote markers repaired, and the archiver’s ? resolved into quotation marks and dashes. Those repairs are judgements and some of them are wrong, which is what this page is for. Email addresses are obscured here as they are everywhere else on the site, so it is before our repairs rather than byte for byte.

From: gwern0 at gmail.com (Gwern Branwen)
Date: Tue, 20 Dec 2011 15:02:13 -0500
Subject: (urth) S&S vs. SF in BotNS
In-Reply-To: <SNT123-W7526AC06DCF8B44AA065BCFA40 at phx.gbl>
References: <SNT123-W7526AC06DCF8B44AA065BCFA40 at phx.gbl>
Message-ID: <CAMwO0gx7vR=Tf6QWAH_e2_XA4B7wu=_TXgZZtfKUH_Nm5j_0Jg at mail.gmail.com>

On Tue, Dec 20, 2011 at 2:53 PM, Lee Berman <severiansola at hotmail.com> wrote:
>
> I think the alzabo stuff is explainable by time period. There was a very real
> and serious camp in the 1970's which thought memory might be carried by RNA. Wolfe
> wouldn't be the only SF writer of that era to base fiction on it.

Frank Herbert comes to mind besides Wolfe.

-- 
gwern
http://www.gwern.net

An unofficial mirror of a public mailing list · about & removal requests · download the archive · before the list · original archive at urth.net