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james_davis_nicollDo 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?
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?
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Date: 2009-04-28 03:44 pm (UTC)Baen is exactly where I'd look for good space opera with some awareness of the history of the genre. Who reissued Schmitz? Who publishes Bujold's SF?
(Element X just catalyzed the release of the atomic energy of copper, it wasn't consumed itself in the process. Skylark was published in 1928, but was written 10-15 years earlier depending on your source.)