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

[martinl-00.livejournal.com]

Getting the science right pleases what percentage of the intended audience, roughly? I suspect the effort to reward ratio is very poor.

[dagbrown.livejournal.com]

I dunno, but quite a lot of people were exceedingly pleased that Jo Rowling wrote villains in Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows that apparently had read the Evil Overlord list of Things Not To Do.