In a message dated 5/4/2004 8:07:40 AM US Mountain Standard Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
> Cameras are a big faux past in SF now.
>
> It distracted me in a couple Piper novels this year.
>
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Oh, that's been over a decade for me.
Tapes can be transfered at 60 speed from viewer to viewer, b
Now in Sundiver you have an intel agent scurring about looking for a camera.
In 2004 this becomes a very funny line.
It's a faux past, and no one has ever shown the ability to avoid having at
least a few of them show up as time goes by.
Cameras are a big faux past in SF now.
It dis
William Browning Spencer says in an interview:
"I've often thought the hardest writer to be, unless you had a deep
scientific background, would be a hard science fiction writer, because
your fans would always be writing in to tell you what you did wrong.
(Laughs) "I'm sorry, you can not in fact do
In a message dated 5/3/2004 7:09:34 PM US Mountain Standard Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
> !" Instead
> of thinking of your fans as this warm bunch of fuzzy people out there,
> you're thinking of them poised to rip you apart if you make some
> incredible scientific faux paux."
>
That's UF-fa
