Message Forum: Re: How about those sci-fi novels?

Re: How about those sci-fi novels?

Posted By: Joona I Palaste, on host 88.113.141.178
Date: Wednesday, February 28, 2007, at 11:34:39
In Reply To: How about those sci-fi novels? posted by Julia Houston on Monday, February 19, 2007, at 14:47:35:

> I absolutely love the The Fantasy Novelist's Exam - http://rinkworks.com/fnovel, but let's not forget those sci-fi books!
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> The Exam - Sci Fi Style

> 46. Do people measure things sometimes with kilometers and sometimes with miles?

Very many Star Trek novels fail this one. Never mind that it's 300 years in the future, and we're supposed to still be measuring lengths with approximations of body parts' lengths instead of a universal, simple, logical, expandable system that can measure sub-atomic distances just as well as intergalactic ones, but sometimes the books can't even make up their mind what system to use.

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Re: How about those sci-fi novels? - Howard - Wed, 2/28/2007, 20:17:29
- Re: How about those sci-fi novels? - wintermute - Wed, 2/28/2007, 20:58:20
  - Re: How about those sci-fi novels? - Howard - Thu, 3/1/2007, 14:08:32

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