Huh

[james_davis_nicoll]

This would make more sense to me if I still read Analog:


Title: The World's Simplest Fusion Reactor Revisted
Author: Tom Ligon
Year: 2008
Type: ESSAY
Series: Science Fact (Analog)
ISFDB Record Number: 854370

Title: The World's Simplest Fusion Reactor
Author: Tom Ligon
Year: 1998
Type: ESSAY
Series: Science Fact (Analog)
ISFDB Record Number: 126238

Reprint? Reexamination of the first essay?

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Comments

[chrysostom476.livejournal.com]

Heinlein did this in Expanded Universe.

[beamjockey.livejournal.com]

Yes; Heinlein did TWO revisits on that essay. Dave Langford wrote:

"Pandora's Box" is a great wodge of 1950 predictions with 1965 afterthoughts and 1979 third thoughts, a good read even where it's most wrong. Heinlein's non-fiction works best when he's relaxed, speaking as himself, tossing in the odd first-person pronoun, and generally sounding like one of his garrulously omniscient sages.