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- From: eoghanni@castle.ed.ac.uk (Eoghann Irving)
- Newsgroups: misc.writing
- Subject: Re: Research in Fiction
- Message-ID: <24003@castle.ed.ac.uk>
- Date: 21 Jul 92 12:46:09 GMT
- References: <1992Jul17.162953.2417@HQ.Ileaf.COM> <BrJrIH.5DF@unx.sas.com> <1992Jul20.175859.571@HQ.Ileaf.COM>
- Organization: Edinburgh University
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- NOTE CORRECTED TITLE (See, I am paying attention to the posts)
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- In article <1992Jul20.175859.571@HQ.Ileaf.COM> hal@HQ.Ileaf.COM (Hal Wadleigh) writes:
- >A recent episode of STNG had the ship assuming synchronous orbit over a pole.
- >The writer missed a great opportunity for drama when the ship cratered into
- >the planet, since unmoving synchronous orbits can only be over the equator.
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- Yeah, so he missed what might have been a good idea. Was it a
- good episode anyway, in which case it doesn't matter how many ideas he
- missed, or was it terrible, in which case it matters a lot?
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- >If you don't want to get the facts right, please don't try to write science
- >fiction. There's enough half-baked crap on the shelves already.
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- WHAT!!!! I think I've posted about this a couple of times
- already, but...
- You do not need to be a cosmologist an astro physicist or any
- other type of scientist to write science fiction. All you need to do is
- have a good story to tell.
- How can you possibly get all the facts right in science fiction,
- nobody knows what most of 'the facts' are.
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