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   From: matt.barrow@sitefill.com   
      
   "Gunner"  wrote in message   
   news:g85l32dtpmodm3julli3fct0mf3g20v2t5@4ax.com...   
   > On Mon, 10 Apr 2006 05:55:53 -0700, "Matt Barrow"   
   >>> It would depend on the accuracy of the data contained in the book.   
   >>>   
   >>   
   >>Fiction <--> data in book = ???   
   >>   
   >   
   > Of course. Dont read much do you?   
      
   Want to come over and see the library in my den?   
      
   You can remove the foot from your mouth anytime now.   
      
   > 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.   
      
   And then there's Heinlein, and the science "fanatsy" genre, "Alternative   
   Histroy"...   
   >   
   > 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?   
      
   The way "facts" are used. There's a big difference between realistic fiction   
   and "fantasy". That's the case in the book (Lucifer's Hammer).   
      
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