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<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>There's a story in the 'Endangered Species'
collection involving some sort of 'dark matter' life.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>- Gerry Quinn</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>From:</B> <A title=dstockhoff@verizon.net
href="mailto:dstockhoff@verizon.net">DAVID STOCKHOFF</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial; BACKGROUND: #e4e4e4; font-color: black">Another
possibility is that Wolfe simply chose to ignore those complications. As an
engineer, he is sometimes very technical---see the remarkably elegant
explanation presented in this list for the Long Sun. But he is not really a
hard-SF kind of guy, not when details might get in the way, and maybe
especially in terms of biology. And he's never proposed non-carbon life or
non-iron blood in any story, as far as I know.</DIV></BLOCKQUOTE></BODY></HTML>