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In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Leonard Hoffman wrote:
> > Can anyone name a really good science-fiction author that was born, say, after
> > 1960?
>
> Jules Verne?
I think he meant 1960 C.E., not 1960 by the
Assyrian/Babylonian/Egyptian/Han/Hebrew/Roman calendar or whatever calendar you
commies use, Len(in)ny... or is it Le(ninny)?...
> I heard this really great quote once where Salvador Dali blames Jules Verne for
> everyone's death - cuz Jules Verne inspired people to develop other types of
> technology rather than focus solely on medicine - which if we had,
> we would have cured death by now.
That would make a great story. Of course stories using JV as a protaganist or
his works as a plot point may have been a bit overdone already. YMMV.
Also, is curing death necessarily a good thing? There have been a LOT of stories
that argue persuasively that it's not.
in - This is not a footnote.
ninny - Neither is this.(1)
1 - but this is. Hope that clears things up.
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