Subj : Re: The Game
To   : Curtis Johnson
From : Joshua Lee
Date : Tue Nov 28 2000 11:09 am

-=> Curtis Johnson wrote to Joshua Lee <=-

 CJ>  Hell, the extreme was an Asimov short-short in which a computer
 CJ> in hyperspace re-creates the universe.

 JL> I think I read that one.
 JL> Didn't it end with "in the beginning"? :-)

 CJ>  IIRC, the ending line was "And there was light."

Close... I'm fairly sure I read it.

 CJ>  Hey, you might enjoy rooting through some "William Tenn"
 CJ> (Philip Klass) story collections and see if you can find one I
 CJ> vaguely remember, about the problem of deciding whether the Venusian
 CJ> ETs were really Jewish as they claimed to be.  I remember it as
 CJ> being pretty funny.

It sounds like a good plot line, that's one I haven't read. I don't
think I've seen "William Tenn" collections.

 JL> Our teacher was thoughtful enough to bring Galaxy to class; and
 JL> let me borrow them. When I was a kid, I wanted to be a scientist

 CJ>  Somebody please call Coincidence Control!  The first sf
 CJ> magazine I ever read *was* in elementary school, and it was a
 CJ> Galaxy (unless it was an IF), and during down time of some kind
 CJ> I was able to read one story.
 CJ>  Yeah, I also wanted to be a scientist.

I still am a researcher type, though not as frequently in the
hard sciences. I'm teaching myself web design with hopes of
becoming part of the internet economy; computers are my second
love; that started with an Apple IIplus in seventh grade. We knew
that computers and people communicating with each other through
them would be big; we just didn't know how big.

(William Shatner mode off:)

 JL> when I grew up. I compulsively checked out every book I could
 JL> find on the subject even (OOTC) reading Jacob Bronowosky on
 JL> the philosophy of science; which was my introduction to the
 JL> subject.

 CJ>  A housemate here has a slim volume of Bronowski's.  Haven't
 CJ> read it yet, or anything else by Bronowski.  (I guess that call to
 CJ> CC just came through.)

Is it "The Origins of Science and the Imagination"?

 CJ>  Seriously, you should buy a bunch of sealing baggies
 CJ> in quantity first chance you get and put one issue in each

 JL> I'll keep that in mind if I can take them out of storage when I
 JL> revisit Virginia. Me and Dad didn't save them for investment value
 JL> though, more for entertainment value and the tendency to never throw

 CJ>  The bags keep pulp mags from deteriorating at a rapid rate, so
 CJ> it's a good idea if you plan to read them again at all.

I'll keep that in mind. I don't know how soon I'll be visiting VA
though, perhaps next summer.

                       JBL

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