Sujet : Re: [ReacTor] "Bad Books", and the Readers That Love Them
De : naddy (at) *nospam* mips.inka.de (Christian Weisgerber)
Groupes : rec.arts.sf.writtenDate : 19. Apr 2024, 16:11:14
Autres entêtes
Message-ID : <slrnv252ci.17f0.naddy@lorvorc.mips.inka.de>
References : 1
User-Agent : slrn/1.0.3 (FreeBSD)
On 2024-04-15, James Nicoll <
jdnicoll@panix.com> wrote:
"Bad Books", and the Readers That Love Them
Inexplicably not titled "Why I Own Most of Hal Clement's Novels."
>
https://reactormag.com/bad-books-and-the-readers-that-love-them/
| Sometimes readers simply want ripping adventure stories inspired by
| the unusual behavior of water at 374 C under a pressure of 218
| atmospheres.[3]
_Close to Critical_, I guess? It's been too long, I don't recall
anything about it.
"Unusual", of course, is betraying your biased viewpoint. Everybody
knows that water is... a rock. (_Still River_, where the human is
the very literally hot-blooded one.)
| [3] Yes, yes, eutectic water/ammonia mixes are also cool.
_Star Light_. Possibly others. Clement really had a thing for the
properties of water/ammonia mixes, but I think _Star Light_ was his
only novel basically built around that. And Dondragmer got to be
more than the reliable second-in-command, although you could still
get a paper cut from his character.
-- Christian "naddy" Weisgerber naddy@mips.inka.de
[ReacTor] "Bad Books", and the Readers That Love Them
Re: [ReacTor] "Bad Books", and the Readers That Love Them
