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   From: gunner@lightspeed.net   
      
   On Mon, 10 Apr 2006 18:28:28 -0700, "Matt Barrow"   
    wrote:   
      
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   >"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?   
      
   Then why did you ask such a foolish question?   
   >   
   >You can remove the foot from your mouth anytime now.   
   >   
   You first.  Btw..my library has about 6000 books in it. Yours?   
      
      
   >> 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"...   
      
   Yes indeed, there is. Hence my "not necessarily bogus" comment.   
   >>   
   >> 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).   
   >   
   Such as? Be specific.   
      
   >   
   >   
   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)