Re: Stories I'd Like To See Written
Tim McDaniel wrote:
> It might be interesting to glance over "The Dynamics Of The Asteroid"
> by Prof. Moriarty. Dr. Asimov posited, based in "_The_ Asteroid",
> that it was about the breakup of the Fifth Planet, and therefore how
> to blow up a planet. Another possibility that now occurs to me is
> that perhaps Prof. Moriarty was writing about how asteroids could
> wallop the Earth.
One of the post-Doyle Sherlock books suggested it was an influential
early work on dynamical systems which strongly influenced Poincare, and
that Moriarty could have been another Poincare himself if he hadn't
gotten the idea that becoming Don Moriarty would be more fun.
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