Why

[james_davis_nicoll]

Do SF authors make up new elements? The elements don't seem to be in Seaborg's island of stability, either.

Actually, what I really mean is why would the sort of person who can't be bothered to look at a table of elements or think about the general decline in half-lives as atomic mass increases past a certain point bother with SF? What's the attraction for them?

Comments

[nihilistic-kid.livejournal.com]

They like spaceships and stuff.

[andrewducker]

Exactly. They want cool explosions and ridiculous technology, and if that means inventing Cheddite then by Klono's brazen hoofs and diamond-tipped horns they'll do so!