Blish's "Conscience" vs. Wolfe's "Fifth Head"

Mike Stone · 02 Jan 2006, 18:50 · from rec.arts.sf.written.2006.mbox

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From: "Mike Stone" <mwstone at aol.com>
Subject: Re: Blish's "Conscience" vs. Wolfe's "Fifth Head"
Date: Mon, 2 Jan 2006 18:50:55 -0000
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>
> Perhaps the statistics don't actually support the concern I voiced
> above -- I don't know. Urban legend would suggest that NBA stars tend
> to father far more children than any intellectual, but this again could
> be bogus.

Whether bogus or not, it's irrelevant, unless the women he fathers them _on_
refrain from getting pregnant (in or out of wedlock) by someone else.
--
Mike Stone - Peterborough, England

"To be good is noble.

To teach others to be good is yet nobler - and far less trouble."

Mark Twain

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