[TML] Plants, animals and characters

[Knapp]

On Sat, Apr 5, 2008 at 7:30 PM, Jerry W Barrington
<jerry.barrington at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 4/5/08 11:45 AM, "Bruce Johnson" <johnson at pharmacy.arizona.edu> wrote:
>
>  > On Apr 5, 2008, at 3:58 AM, Knapp wrote:
>  >
>
> > (Of course, the occasional oddball is good to throw in there: cf "Adv
>  > 13:Signal GK", there's a non-traditional life form (non-organic, uses
>  > electrical fields for an energy source) that had a very major impact...)
>
>  I assume you mean the chips... p.42 clearly says it's basically a solar
>  cell, not electrical fields.
>
>
>  > However, go look for some of Issac Asimov's Analog science column
>  > collections; there were two or three book-length compilations, and
>  > several of his short works collections have them along with the short
>  > stories.
>  >
>  > He's got several that deal with 'life in weird places' and examines
>  > replacing carbon with sulfur, ammonia or silicon, for example...I
>  > cannot lay my hands on the collections i have at the moment, or else
>  > I'd be able to provide a title.
>  >
>  > It MIGHT be in the Ballantine one issued in the 70's with a Whelan
>  > cover of a guy in a purple skin suit and ray gun squaring off against
>  > a wizard; the story was a long pelude to a truly horrid pun involving
>  > Asimov's name. I can get no farther than that; I haven[t laid hands on
>  > the book in over a decade, I'm sure. Someday I'll live in a house with
>  > a real library...:-/
>
>  The cover you describe sounds like a Boris from Larry Niven and David
>  Gerrold's "The Flying Sorcerers".  Originally from 71, but with a different
>  cover.
>
>  I really should get more of Isaac's non-fiction.  And fiction, for that
>  matter.

The only book I have on this is World-Building by Stephen L. Gillett
and it is good but talks about some other book in the family about
alien making. Anyone read that one? Is it good?


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Douglas E Knapp
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