(urth) "Realistic fiction leaves out too much." - Gene Wolfe

James Wynn crushtv at gmail.com
Sun May 1 12:01:22 PDT 2011


> Oh, I got that you were doing a dismissive person rather than speaking 
> for yourself, but when you include bogus trivia it can seem like you 
> actually didn't bother to read or see the original source; there are 
> no lasers in ST because they weren't quite invented yet when RAH wrote 
> it, and Wes Craven was not involved with that particular slasher movie 
> franchise.

Ah. Sorry Wes Craven. Brain-fart.  As for the lasers...well, I just 
liked the way it sounded. (Incidentally, the ST movie didn't use lasers 
either as far as I remember).

J.





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