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The Reluctant Famulus 109 January/February 2016 Thomas D 1 The Reluctant Famulus 109 January/February 2016 Thomas D. Sadler, Editor/Publisher, etc. 305 Gill Branch Road, Owenton, KY 40359 Phone: 502-484-3766 E-mail: [email protected] Contents Introduction, Editor 3 Rat Stew, Gene Stewart 7, Chirps, Sheryl Birkhead 11 A Change of pace, Editor 12 SINAGUA SAGA ,Alfred D. Byrd 13 New Ancient Earthlings Part One, Gayle Perry 20 The Crotchety Critic, Michaele Jordan 27 A Bit of Silliness, Editor 28 New Ancient Earthlings, Part 2 , Gayle Perry 30 Letters 35 More Silliness, Editor 48 Artwork/Photos A. B Kynock Front cover, Back cover Alfred Byrd 13 —18 Brad Foster 10, 28 NASA 6 Spore The Reluctant Famulus is a product of Strange Dwarf Publications. Some of the comments expressed herein are solely those of the Editor/Publisher and do not necessarily reflect the thoughts of any sane, rational persons who know what they are doing and have carefully thought out beforehand what they wanted to say. Material not written or produced by the Editor/Publisher is is printed by permission of the various writers and artists and is copyright by them and remains their sole property and reverts to them after publication. TRF maybe obtained for The Usual but, in return for written material and artwork, postage costs, The Meaning of Life, and Editorial Whim. 2 The Reluctant Famulus Introduction: Some Rambling Thoughts . Prompted by a transcript copy of that novel, the 1952 of an interview with a fairly Gnome Press version pur- well-known science fiction chased at a used book store.) writer. Robinson said he wrote his One of my patiently dedi- books based on what was cated and frequent loccers, learned from the Viking ex- Dave Rowe, informed me of a plorer; some new things were transcript of a BBC interview learned since then. with science fiction writer However . Stop and think Kim Stanley Robinson and about the name for our provided me with a copy as (mostly) favorite genre: Sci- possible material for TRF. ence Fiction. Two words. The Dave thought you readers second one, “fiction” is in- might find it of interest. I’m sure it would be, cluded for a reason. The reason “fiction” is but to do things properly I would need to ob- included is to remind readers that what they tain BBC’s permission to reprint it. Having are reading is not necessarily real. It is a liter- never done something like that, I’m hesitant ary work based on the imagination and cur- to go through whatever process would be rently known science. SF may be based on needed to obtain BBC’s permission. As current science concerning outer space, plan- tempting as it may be to try I’ve decided not ets and space travel. The word “fiction” is to. I will, however, append a link to the BBC there also to remind us readers that the sto- interview if anyone should be interested. ries we read are only speculation of what The interview is called “What If There is might be real under certain circumstances. no Planet B?” (Isn’t that clever? A variation SF’s intent is to present possibilities that on the words “Do you have a Plan B? I wish might exist as far as current science knowl- I had thought of that. Not really.) I will also edge is aware or probable conditions. SF provide the gist of the interview. Needless to writers are saying this or that might occur. say—although, of course I am saying it—I’ll Back to Robinson. He admits there’s follow that with some of my thoughts relat- nothing to stop Terra-forming Mars but he ing to the interview for what little they may adds the caveat that, if it takes 10,000 years be worth. If anything. rather than 300, people think about it differ- Robinson starts off noting that Science ently. That’s when he says there is no Planet fiction has been based on the science of its B. I can understand that but there may also time One example he used was referred to be another reason that terra-forming Mars Percival Lowell claiming there are canals on might never happen. I‘m guessing that in ad- Mars which led SF writers to theorize a civi- dition to the time factor such a program lization there. It was later learned that wasn’t would cost a lot of money to undertake. It so, that Mars was a dry world. He made a doesn’t seem likely any single country would reference to Arthur C. Clarke’s Sands of be willing to finance the project alone and Mars. (Not surprisingly, I suspect, I have a trying to convince other countries to help out 3 might not be easy. said he would love to visit for three or four But what he says about terra-forming and months; he really would. If I he could get colonizing Mars leaves me wondering if he there in two weeks and see it for six months think he’s the only one who has given any or even a year and get back in two weeks that thought to such possibilities. would be great but he would never want to Then the interviewer asked Robinson live there. He would have plenty of com- about his comment that space isn’t like the pany. There are many people who spend old west but more like Antarctica. Robinson some time on Mars but very much preferred responds that it once Mars was going to be living in a safe and, comforting place with like a new frontier. From all I’ve read about which they were familiar. I probably would the subject I never thought space was any- be one of those too. thing like the old west and more sensible, I’ve pretty much covered the major smarter writers than I thought the same way. points of the interview so on to my ram- Space, in general is far worse than Antarc- blings. (By the way, I think this Introduction tica. The temperature is absolute zero, - is longer than the interview transcription and 459.67 Fahrenheit. Humans need to wear the interview supposedly was only about five protective clothing that keeps them warm minutes long.) and are equipped with an air supply so they Back to SF writers. If our country—or can breathe. Then, too, there’s the matter of even some other—develops practical and cosmic radiation which wasn’t as serious possible working spaceships that we humans hazard to Earth’s old west. could safely and quickly travel to and ex- Then the interview goes on to discuss plore planets such as Mars and Venus up faster than light travel and the problems en- close to see what their destination is like and countered in traveling to distant planets, sub- if life is or has been on those planets. Con- jects which have been debated by others. The nected to that possibility is that of coloniza- interviewer says, “You’ve thought about tion of any one or all of them except, most these issues more than most . .” Really? likely for Saturn, Uranus and Neptune. The And no one else has? No scientists or hard writers are saying that is something that science writers? What about strongly science might possibly happen, not that it will hap- -oriented writers such as Robert A. Heinlein, pen. Isaac Asimov, Arthur C. Clarke, Hal Clem- That also applies to the theme of extrater- ent, Greg Benford, Larry Niven, Ben Bova, restrials and any encounters with them. and others? I could be wrong but it seems to They’re saying, what if there were other be- me that those gentlemen are/were as aware ings with highly developed civilizations and of, if not more so, the no Planet B possibility technology, what would the outcome be of as Mr. Robinson. If I remember correctly, discovering and encountering them? What Heinlein. wrote about a generation interstel- might they look like, think like, and behave lar spacecraft, and I believe other SF writers like? Again, SF writers are saying if such have done so also. Sure, there were so-called things are possible, could what we write hack writers who weren’t meticulous with about become true? science but the entire genre of SF shouldn’t Yes, SF writers know that outer space is be judged by them. I think a harsh and forbidding, unforgiving environ- But then there will always be someone ment for humans. Yes, we know that every who will be the first one to give a lot of other star than our sun lies anywhere from thought to such things. four or so light years up to hundreds and When asked if he would go to Mars, he thousands of light years, and traveling to 4 them, even at light speed, would take an there could possibly be one or more Earth- equal number of years to reach any one of like planets that could support humans. them. That leads to the speculation of the It should be noted, in regard to transpor- possibility—admittedly extremely remote— tation, that humans first went from place to that spacecraft might possibly somehow place on foot, which was a slow, tiring proc- reach and exceed the speed of light even ess. But they advanced in intelligence over though astrophysicists have been able to es- time invented the wheel. From there on it tablish it’s impossible. But SF writers may was all uphill. Humans went from riding ani- reply, “Yes, as far as we know currently.
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