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   From: gunner@lightspeed.net   
      
   On Mon, 10 Apr 2006 05:55:53 -0700, "Matt Barrow"   
    wrote:   
      
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   >"Gunner"  wrote in message   
   >news:k4dk325eqvnvd0altb4p473p6fest4j7j2@4ax.com...   
   >> On Mon, 10 Apr 2006 00:21:24 -0700, "Matt Barrow"   
   >>  wrote:   
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   >>>"clintonG"  wrote in message   
   >>>news:vAh_f.414$bi.88@tornado.rdc-kc.rr.com...   
   >>>> Its fiction and its an older book written in the 1970s but go the   
   >>>> library   
   >>>> and check out "Lucifer's Hammer" (Niven, Pournelle), read it, and then   
   >>>> tell me you want to live around Ohio or anywhere else in the Midwest.   
   >>>>   
   >>>You'd make such an argument based on a work of FICTION?   
   >>>   
   >>>   
   >> It would depend on the accuracy of the data contained in the book.   
   >>   
   >   
   >Fiction <--> data in book = ???   
   >   
      
   Of course. Dont read much do you?  A work of fiction means that the   
   plot is fictional, not that the basic premise or the data used is   
   necessarily bogus.  Tom Clancey comes to mind. Louis le Amoure as   
   another. Well researched, data is correct and so forth. Steven Koontz   
   as another.   
      
   In fact...the more well regarded fiction is more of an alternative   
   history, rather than some hodgepodge of stuff stuck together.   
      
   What makes you think that a fictional work has nothing accurate in it?   
      
   Gunner   
      
   "I think this is because of your belief in biological Marxism.   
   As a genetic communist you feel that noticing behavioural   
   patterns relating to race would cause a conflict with your belief   
   in biological Marxism."     Big Pete, famous Usenet Racist   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)