On Tue, 14 Jun 2011 18:50:12 +0200, Darren New <dne### [at] sanrrcom> wrote:

> 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.
>
Thanks for the info. It doesn't sound likes there's any wow factor so I  
think I'll skip it.

-- 
-Nekar Xenos-

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