-Joe-

P.S. I had an online acquaintance back a few years ago who was actually present on the scene, more or less, when the Edmund Fitzgerald went down. She was a journalist for a local paper on the Upper Peninsula.

I was looking at it (after checking out the wiki article on the Edmund Fitzgerald) as being a very similar situation, ie the ship having contact and suddenly going down, losing all hands, etc. I was hoping it might be a sign that we would be finding out soon just what happened to Kei when the Danzig was lost.

Zack Seaholm - Anime fan, weathernut, worshipper of the goddess Belldandy.

Today's global thermonuclear war tactic: Albanian Decoy
Winner: None

-Joe-

It's a big Dyson Sphere... I'm sure there's an equivalent to the Great Lakes somewhere on it.

Zack Seaholm - Anime fan, weathernut, worshipper of the goddess Belldandy.

Today's global thermonuclear war tactic: English Escalation
Winner: None

-Joe-

People always have difficulty comprehending quite how large a Dyson Sphere is. You could fit over 600 million scale models of the Earth's surface in there and still have enough space left over for New Avalon. Given the nature of the people who run the place, there is probably all kinds of bizarre junk on it, including a mountain range made from ice cream (old birthday present for Skuld) and a scale map of Mars (site of a Larry Niven fan convention) somewhere on it.

For historical reasons, it would be extremely unlikely for the sphere's owners to go to any particular trouble for the sake of a Larry Niven convention. Back in the '80s, the WPI Science Fiction Society used to host an annual sci-fi convention, Technicon, on campus. That ended the year Larry Niven was the guest of honor. The SFS nearly ended the year Larry Niven was the guest of honor.

In conclusion, fuck Larry Niven.

--G.
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Also, he's turned into the biggest hack this side of John Norman (writer of the {...} Of Gor series). I loved Ringworld, enjoyed Ringworld Engineers, enjoyed Tales Of Known Space, am a fan of Gil The Arm. Ringworld Throne was UNREADABLE. I haven't tried anything since.

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Geoff Depew - Darth Mephron
Haberdasher to Androids, Dark Lord of Sith Tech Support.
"And Remember! Google is your Friend!!"

Having been on con committees in the past, I can appreciate the problems caused by the guest of honor. However, I've never had anything quite that bad happen.

Brian

I liked Ringworld and even borrowed it for a Spelljammer campaign I was running. Yep, that put me on the shit list in record time (less than 2 seconds IIRC).

So yes, he can be a prick. But can't we all? ;)

Michael

	Michael C. Fortner RCW #2n+1 "I smoke in moderation. Only one cigar at a time." -- Mark Twain

Geeze, I must have lucked out then... About ten years ago at a Philcon, Niven and I were sitting next to each other at a publisher's party, and ended up just chatting away with each other for a good twenty minutes to a half-hour. I can't even remember about what, but apparently I made a good impression, if what you say is true...

-- Bob
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The President is on the line
As ninety-nine crab rangoons go by...

Perhaps when you encountered him, he was sober.

When he showed up for the Last Technicon? Not so much.

--G.
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Eyrie Productions, Unlimited http://www.eyrie-productions.com/

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