Why

Apr. 27th, 2009 10:35 am
james_davis_nicoll: (Default)
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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?

island of stability

Date: 2009-04-28 12:55 am (UTC)
avram: (Default)
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I look in the SF section, under "W".

Date: 2009-04-28 01:41 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] keithmm.livejournal.com
I find it in the "Are You Feeling Too Optimistic? Have a Hankering For a Dose of Soul-Destroying Hopelessness?" section myself.

Date: 2009-04-28 04:11 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] invunche.livejournal.com
Peter Watts? The Rifters guy? Depressing (http://www.rifters.com/real/shorts/PeterWatts_RepeatingThePast.pdf)?

I'll believe it when he starts writing comedies.

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