check the writing of Keith Lamur, of course Isaac Asimov.
Too much of the novels in the sci-fi section are sexual
fantasy, bring back the good shoot 'em up space opera.


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| "cjcampbell" wrote in
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| That was David Niven. And, while I haven't looked, I
would be surprised
| if the Pink Panther has never had a light sabre. Larry
Niven wrote a
|
| I knew it was David Niven. I was a making what was
evidently a bad joke.
|
| series of novels called the Known Space novels. One of
the things
| common to all these novels is the stasis field, a kind
of force field
| in which time ceases to exist. Thus, it does not keep
other objects out
| by means of a wall of energy, but because time does not
pass within the
| forcefield, anything starting to enter the stasis field
is frozen by
| time and pushed away.
|
| Sounds like the Cone of Silence!
|
| But if Time is frozen, objects shouldn't be pushed away -
that would require
| an opposing force. They should simply freeze in time and
stop moving, perhaps
| collapsing upon themselves as the balance of the entering
object continues
| through the field. Seems pretty simple to me.
|
| Larry Niven also was one of the creators of The Green
Lantern.
|
| I used to like the Green Lantern when I was a kid. But now
that you've
| described the horrible lack of logic endowed by his
creators, I have lost all
| respect for Greeny. I guess it's back to Superman for me.