On Jan 26, 4:03 pm, Logan Kearsley <chronosur...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> On Jan 26, 1:13 pm, Damien Valentine <valen...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>
> > In my latest work (which will probably be thrown into the bottom of my
> > file drawer along with my previous works), Our Hero discovers a
> > Mysterious Alien Artifact that, once activated, emits a blast of
> > radiation that sterilizes the entire Planet of Sufficiently Advanced
> > Technology.
SNIP:
S M Stirling has written something to rhis effect in his 'Dies the
Fire' sequence. . My 'willingness to believe' is unable to squelch my
skepticism. Removing electricity and magnetism was bad enough. There
goes the Earth's magnetic ****eld against solar radiation and what
happens to the biological electric signals? A flat EEG is a bad sign.
Worse was when he limited steam pressure to insignificant levels. Give-
me-a-break. No more geysers? No more Krakataos or Mt. St. Helens? How
does it draw a line for the Gas Laws? Just how the heck is that
mysterious what-ever-it-is supposed to tell the difference between man-
made and natural effects? His work is fantasy and not science fiction.
Given that, it's a good adventure story, but . . . . my disbelief
prevailed.
My suggestion would be not radiation as the McGuffin but Von Neumann
nanos programmed to eat that advanced tech and reproduce and
disassemble such items and then, job done, quietly disassemble each
other an the last one starve to death. 'Sufficiently Advanced' does
need definition. Would Model T Fords be permitted? Hot tubs?
Walt BJ
Walt BJ
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