(urth) S&S vs. SF in BotNS

[Gwern Branwen]

On Tue, Dec 20, 2011 at 2:53 PM, Lee Berman <severiansola at hotmail.com> wrote:
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> I think the alzabo stuff is explainable by time period. There was a very real
> and serious camp in the 1970's which thought memory might be carried by RNA. Wolfe
> wouldn't be the only SF writer of that era to base fiction on it.

Frank Herbert comes to mind besides Wolfe.

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