Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 14, No. 334.
Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London
<http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/>
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[1] From: Jascha Kessler <jaschak@earthlink.net> (12)
Subject: Re: 14.0328 sci-fi and science
[2] From: "P. T. Rourke" <ptrourke@mediaone.net> (13)
Subject: Re: 14.0328 sci-fi and science
[3] From: "Fotis Jannidis" <fotis.jannidis@lrz.uni- (6)
muenchen.de>
Subject: Re: 14.0328 sci-fi and science
[4] From: Arun-Kumar Tripathi <tripathi@statistik.uni- (6)
dortmund.de>
Subject: apologies
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Date: Tue, 10 Oct 2000 09:05:05 +0100
From: Jascha Kessler <jaschak@earthlink.net>
Subject: Re: 14.0328 sci-fi and science
For pure enlightenment, not amusement in scifi-fiction, the great European
Humanist Engineer, Stanislaw Lem, is the one to read. Americans have not
sense of the great tragic human, or true comedy. I recommend for starters
(and perhaps finishers, too) Lem's masterpiece, FIASCO
Jascha Kessler
Professor of English & Modern Literature, UCLA
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Date: Tue, 10 Oct 2000 09:05:20 +0100
From: "P. T. Rourke" <ptrourke@mediaone.net>
Subject: Re: 14.0328 sci-fi and science
> Mr. Clarke has been a member of
> the British interplanetary association for years.
British Interplanetary Society. I think he was a founder, and he certainly
served as an officer. His training was from what I remember in engineering.
> When Dr. Clarke first wrote about communication
> sattelites in 1946, he did so in a fiction format. Science fiction is
> often used to broach ideas that would be ridiculed if they were place in
> professional journals.
This is not one of them. See Clarke's collected scientific papers, *Ascent
to Orbit*, for his original paper proposing the use of a geosynchronous
orbit for communications satellites. Also, he is not, I believe, a doctor.
His *City and the Stars* and *Lion of Commagene* (sp?) would be of interest
to those looking for early references to the concept of virtual reality.
Patrick Rourke
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Date: Tue, 10 Oct 2000 09:05:43 +0100
From: "Fotis Jannidis" <fotis.jannidis@lrz.uni-muenchen.de>
Subject: Re: 14.0328 sci-fi and science
> From: Randall Pierce <rpierce@jsucc.jsu.edu>
> To call a
> fiction work of a scientist "space opera" would seem to many a
> disparaging comment.
Isn't "space opera" just a genre label referring to a special kind of
science fiction?
Fotis Jannidis
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Date: Tue, 10 Oct 2000 09:06:56 +0100
From: Arun-Kumar Tripathi <tripathi@statistik.uni-dortmund.de>
Subject: apologies
Greetings humanist scholars,
Hello..I would like to apologize for a misprint done by me..in "14.0328
sci-fi and science" on *Date: Mon, 09 Oct 2000 07:35:42 +0100* in the
Humanist Discussion Group..there..I wrote.."radio serious" in place of
"radio series" related to Tom Corbett. Thank you.
Yours Sincerely
Arun Tripathi
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