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   From: morgothscurse2002@nospam.yahoo.com   
      
   On Thu, 13 Aug 2009 16:13:41 +0200, Öjevind Lång   
    wrote:   
      
   >  I don't remember who wrote that most science fiction is based on assuming   
   >that one impossible or unlikely thing is reality and then developing one's   
   >story from there, strictly observing logic and scientific knowledge apart   
   >from the grand exception made at the outset. Well, words to that effect.   
   >Anyway, the Foundation books make several scientifically untenable   
   >assumptions: faster-than-light travel, galactic empires (see below),   
   >psychohistory and robots with a consciousness who can make intricate grand   
   >plans for the proper evolution of human history. Granted, the last   
   >impossibility was tacked onto the structure later, and in my opinion it made   
   >the whole edifice topple down.   
      
   Perhaps Asimov should have prefaced the Foundation series with the   
   words "a long time ago in a galaxy far, far away..."  ;-)   
      
   I don't know why, but I suddenly have this mental image of Ojevind   
   sitting in front of his typewriter in 1977 methodically listing all of   
   the flaws in "Star Wars."  ^_^   
      
   Morgoth's Curse   
      
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