FALLEN ANGELS character - ID real person?
Philip Mundhenk
that lectures on climate change at the underground con in FALLEN
ANGELS is based on? Since so many of the characters are easy to ID as
renamed real people I figure that one probably is too. I'd like to see
their current take on the subject. Thanks.
Robert A. Woodward
<30e92af1-e23e-4377...@l13g2000yqb.googlegroups.com>
,
Philip Mundhenk <philip....@gmail.com> wrote:
I think you will have a better chance to see this question answered
in 'rec.arts.sf.science', so I added the cross-post.
I have a vague recollection of seeing (just to be sure that I am on
the same page - the hypothesis that industrialization has kept back
the next ice age) this years before _Fallen Angels_ was published.
I wouldn't be surprised if the originator was playing Devil's
Advocate. It was so long ago, that it might had been mentioned in a
John Campbell editorial.
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Robert Woodward <robe...@drizzle.com>
<http://www.drizzle.com/~robertaw>
Philip Mundhenk
> In article
> <30e92af1-e23e-4377-b1ff-c19f435ea...@l13g2000yqb.googlegroups.com>
> ,
> Philip Mundhenk <philip.mundh...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Can anyone tell me what real person or persons, if any, the character
> > that lectures on climate change at the underground con in FALLEN
> > ANGELS is based on? Since so many of the characters are easy to ID as
> > renamed real people I figure that one probably is too. I'd like to see
> > their current take on the subject. Thanks.
>
> I think you will have a better chance to see this question answered
> in 'rec.arts.sf.science', so I added the cross-post.
>
> I have a vague recollection of seeing (just to be sure that I am on
> the same page - the hypothesis that industrialization has kept back
> the next ice age) this years before _Fallen Angels_ was published.
> I wouldn't be surprised if the originator was playing Devil's
> Advocate. It was so long ago, that it might had been mentioned in a
> John Campbell editorial.
>
> --
> <http://www.drizzle.com/~robertaw>
Now that you mention it, that sounds vaguely familiar. Certainly a
Campbellian sort of topic. I'd love to have a collection of those
editorials. I've since seen it asserted that the character in
question, Gregory Lutenist, is modelled on Greg Bear. If that is true,
the views expressed seem quite at variance with the generally rather
PC leftist views he now professes. Possibly Lutenist is a fusion of
more than one person with some Baen and Pournelle heavy in the mix.
Thanks for the response.
Greg Goss
Somewhere on the web there's a cross reference of the Fallen Angels
personnel. I think at least one of the placements in the novel was
sold at a charity auction at a con.
(googles)
http://news.larryniven.org/biblio/display.asp?key=243
Now I just need the name of philip's lecturing character was.
(read bits of five chapters.)
OK the list says he's supposed to be Greg Bear, the author.
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Tomorrow is today already.
Greg Goss, 1989-01-27