From: b.scott@csuohio.edu   
      
   On Tue, 7 Oct 2014 15:49:13 -0700 (PDT), "David E. Siegel   
   (siegel@acm.org)"  wrote in   
      
   in rec.arts.sf.composition:   
      
   > On Tuesday, October 7, 2014 4:44:41 AM UTC-4, Brian M. Scott wrote:   
      
   >> On Mon, 6 Oct 2014 15:25:01 -0700 (PDT), "David E. Siegel   
      
   >    
      
   >> The one time-keeping system that really took me a little   
   >> getting used to was that of Joan D. Vinge's _Outcasts of   
   >> Heaven Belt_: all time intervals are given in seconds (with   
   >> metric prefixes as needed), and it took me a little while to   
   >> get a real feel for it.   
      
   > Yes, but it didn't take me too long to develop a mental   
   > table of rough equivalents. The same system is used, at   
   > much greater length, in Vinge's _A Deepness in the Sky_.   
   > Not too surprising, they were married during the period   
   > those books were being drafted, IIRC.   
      
   They were married from 1972 to 1979, and _Outcasts_ came out   
   in 1978; _A Deepness in the Sky_ didn’t come out until 1999,   
   but he was apparently thinking about his universe much   
   earlier, since she has said that _Outcasts_ is set in the   
   Slow Zone.   
      
   I’m not sure that I’ve read _Deepness_; I don’t care much   
   for his work.  (I much prefer hers.)   
      
   Brian   
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