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   From: droleary@4usenet2013.subsume.com   
      
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    Robert Bannister  wrote:   
      
   > That's fine. I like fantasy stories so long as there're no vampires or   
   > zombies. I'm quite keen on matter transmitters and was quite upset when   
   > Larry Niven gave a speech pointing out that with angular momentum, you'd   
   > probably get killed the second you stepped out of one.   
      
   It's a factor for time travel in my setting, too.  After all, to travel   
   through time is to travel through space.  I don't kill people, though.   
   I just make it cost a lot more, energy-wise, to correct for the   
   difference in reference frames.   
      
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