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   From: bredband.net@ojevind.lang   
      
   "Troels Forchhammer"  skrev i meddelandet   
   news:Xns9C61A87A7E2T.Forch@130.133.1.4...   
      
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   > So was I, but even then there is no inherent difference between   
   > Tolkien's 'magic' and Isaac Asimov's 'hyperspace'. Like so many other   
   > inventions of science fiction, Asimov's 'hyperspace' or his   
   > 'positronic brain' are no more imaginable than the Master Ring --   
   > let's not be fooled by Asimov's excellent technical lingo or his   
   > great knowledge of science (when he first produced these ideas they   
   > were, perhaps, not quite as impossible as they are today, but that's   
   > another story).   
      
    True, but Asimov would probably have become very annoyed if you had said   
   that to him. He loved thinking of himself as completely scientific or   
   rational, although of course he wasn't. His worship of robots who would   
   become surrogate gods and solve our problems was defintiely not rational.   
     All the same, he did enjoy LotR, but he was careful to point out that he   
   only enjoyed them "as fairy-stories", as if he was afraid of otherwise   
   cominf under suspicron of beliveling in wizards, elves, hobbist and so on.   
      
   Öjevind   
      
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