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From: Heiny.henr@Parc-Maxc.Arpa
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Subject: Re: Chalker is a total hack author
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Date: Thu, 26-Jan-84 11:40:11 EST
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Posted: Thu Jan 26 11:40:11 1984
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From:  Chris Heiny 

Well, I don't know about hackness, but the thing I find most irritating
is Chalker's attempts to 'scientific'.  My two favorite (2) occasions
are:
	> "steam combustion" (fuel crisis solved! most two year olds know
		water doesn't burn (except if it's in the Cuyahoga))
	> "liquid(!) magma" on the surface of a planet (as if magma is anything
		other than liquid (my geo profs used to beat me with hematite
		if I made this mistake); and once it's on the surface, it's lava)
It was especially amusing to find vulcanism on the Wellworld: isn't the
whole thing a giant computer with a thin veneer of planet?  Maybe that's
how it gets rid of its waste heat...

					Chris