>Well, that's nice and all, but I think I'm with George on this one - I
>don't particularly care how they work, any more than I care how
>warp drive supposedly works or what the electrophysical principles
>behind fluorescent lighting are.

Story-wise, no, it really doesn't matter if it's plasma in a magnetic bottle or an energy arc, but just for the sake of consistency, an explanation should be developed and stuck with. I'm not saying it hasn't been; I'm just stating this as principle.

I've never said that lightsabers should function in UF the same way they do in SW, so long as they do the same thing, and that the UF-explanation is internally consistent. Don't matter to me, since the SW elements in UF are pretty mutated anyway. I was just pointing out the vast gulf between the H2G2 entry and the description of lightsaber tech given in the various SW references.

>hunkey-dorey." In it, the correspondent made the (I think unfounded)
>charge, "I think there's a good hard-SF writer inside you, waiting to
>get out."

...What?

Gryph, much as I enjoy your work, and occasional technical detailing aside (which seem to generally bear Zoner's fingerprints moreso, anyway), I don't see true hard SF being consistent with what you do write.

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