I just sent this email to Gregory Benford: This hit me like, .......well, like a cobblestone.
Page 87 of the PB of Foundation's Fear: ...carrying cobblestones ripped from the street. Rarely does something in a story stop me dead. This did. With advanced construction technology and/or a longer historical record of riots throughout history, I cannot see the logic in building a road out of stone that can be pried up for various nefarious purposes. I shall have to have Hari Seldon mentally think the following line: This was once a good neighborhood patterned after an ancient European city. No. Wait----Earth is only a legend. That can't work. How about: Some idiot in planning who went with the lowest cost projection without studing history should lose his or her job over this. Cobblestones exist only to be ripped up at times of stress. Yea. That'd work. Back to my reading..... William Taylor --------------------- Genitalia on a robot? That's a Gortian naughty. ----I wonder if he'll groan at this as well as some on the list did. _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
