On 6/14/2011 7:54, Mike the Elder wrote:
> If you insist that Sci-Fi needs to start with hard science and only add in
> plausible inventions, forget it!

The sci-fi I like best starts with hard science and only adds in implausible 
inventions. :-) It's a fine line, but how much of what we do today would 
have been implausible 100 or 200 years ago?

Just look at something like "Flight of the Unicorn", where the guy goes back 
in time from the far future.  His space helmet gets depicted as a halo 
later, while his air bike winds up looking too much like a broom.

-- 
Darren New, San Diego CA, USA (PST)
   "Coding without comments is like
    driving without turn signals."

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