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

[derekl1963.livejournal.com]

Not to mention that if we abandoned many of those frozen-in-amber tropes, SF as a field would get pretty boring pretty quickly.