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| I haven't given this too much thought, and someone has probably already explored this at length, but here goes. Off the top of my head I can think of three (it was four, but now I can't remember one) SF series in which a lead character was named (...) (23 years ago, 20-Mar-01, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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| (...) I dunno if there's a link to He Who Wrote Jurassic Park, but a kryton (I dunno about the spelling and dictionary.com hasn't offered a non-Krypton alternative) is a device used in the fuse on a nuclear warhead... Cheers, - jsproat (23 years ago, 20-Mar-01, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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| (...) That's pretty cool, and it ranks as one of the most obscure facts I've learned lately. Are you confident of the spelling? I'm not doubting you (since I have no basis for comparison) but I'd like to look into it a bit further. Thanks for the (...) (23 years ago, 20-Mar-01, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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| From Dictionary.com: Crich·ton (krtn), James. Known as "the Admirable Crichton." 1560-1582. Scottish adventurer, linguist, and scholar whose intellectual achievements were lauded by Aldus Manutius and Thomas Urquhart. He was killed in a brawl. (...) (23 years ago, 27-Mar-01, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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