>Don't matter to me, since
>the SW elements in UF are pretty mutated anyway.

Heh heh - and you haven't met my version of Darth Vader yet... :)

>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.

I know, that's why this message mystified me so much. It's not consistent with what I like to read, let alone write. Would an embryonic "hard SF" writer be a Star Wars fan? (Or Trek, for that matter, which at its worst moments attempts to be hard SF, despite the fact that it is no more able to be so than an elephant is able to fly? :)

--G.
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