Re: YASID: Tork and Mattork
- From: Nyrath the nearly wise <nyrath@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 04 Apr 2007 16:37:06 -0400
Robert Carnegie wrote:
I see it's found, but Burroughs /did/ have a guy on Venus. IIRC
"Carson of Venus" had computed a rocket trip to Mars without
accounting for where Earth's Moon would be that day. Plunging towards
the Sun, he was lucky - no kidding - to make Venus. I forget if he
did fully acknowledge that on the whole you /don't/ hit any of God's
nightlights by accidentally steering into them. The Moon I'd give
him, just unlucky -
Are these on Gutenberg? Even if they are, they probably aren't legal
in Europe, where copyright has been author-lifetime-plus for longer,
and the time extended.
Go to
http://gutenberg.net.au/sfproject.html
and scroll down to "Burroughs, Edgar Rice"
.
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