Newsgroups: rec.arts.int-fiction
Subject: Re: What is IF really?
From: Garth Dighton <gdighton@geocities.com>
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Andrew Plotkin <erkyrath@eblong.com> wrote in
news:aevct3$hrv$1@reader1.panix.com:

> Here, Lucian P. Smith <lpsmith@rice.edu> wrote:
>> Joao Mendes <public.email@anywhere.invalid> wrote in
>> <Xns9234243009CB6joaomendesnetcabopt@194.65.14.150>:
>
>> : Hi, :)
>
>> : Andrew Plotkin <erkyrath@eblong.com> wrote in
>> : news:aetn0i$ocp$1@reader1.panix.com:
>
> If you hand me a science fiction novel written in Chinese, is it
> really science fiction -- given that I can't make out any of the
> words, much less figure out that it's about time-travelling neutronium
> robots from Mars? Well, really I think the answer is "yes".

<mode=hard-sci-fi-snob>

The answer is "no, that's pulp trash." Time traveling neutronium Martian
robots indeed! [looks down nose]

</mode>

:-)

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Garth Dighton


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