Re: Arthur C Clarke, RIP

Peter Knutsen wrote:
> Gene Ward Smith wrote:
>> Peter Knutsen <peter@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in news:47e09343$0$15891
>>> Different people use different definitions of science fiction. My
>>> point remians that I've never come across a definition of science
>>> fiction that excludes Clarke, whereas there are definitions that
>>> excludes Bradbury - mine for instance.
>>
>> I don't believe you. Give your defintion and we'll see.
>
> Mine is that the writer must be science-literate. Even if he writes
> something that isn't hard science, he has to be able to know when he's
> being good and when he's being naughty.
>
So every PhD thesis ever written and every peer-reviewed article in 
magazines such as 'Nature' and 'The Journal of New England Medicine' is 
science fiction.  Interesting.  Or does it just mean that every scientist
is 
a science-fiction writer?

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