Subj : The Game
To   : Joshua Lee
From : Curtis Johnson
Date : Mon Dec 04 2000 12:45 am

 
 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.

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

	One of those undeservedly under-read sf writers, his heyday
being in H.L. Gold's _Galaxy_.  Ballantine issued several collections
of his short stories in the '70s.
 
 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.

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

	I've seriously thought of getting into computers, but I
think I no longer have the requisite discipline.  Perhaps if I
swore off FIDO for a while. . .


 JL> (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.)

 JL> Is it "The Origins of Science and the Imagination"?
 
	I don't think so.  I just went looking for it in the books
in the common room, but couldn't locate it.




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