Re: Climate Suprise! (Was: Re: The Urge to Explore - Nuclear Power!)

On Sun, 26 Jun 2005 01:34:40 GMT, aranders@xxxxxxxxxxxxx (Alan
Anderson) wrote:

>ordover@xxxxxxx wrote:
>
>> Ah. You mean why does it work so often in stories?
>>
>> For the same reason the aliens speak English. :)
>
>None of the aliens in *my* stories speak English. Of course, neither does
>anyone else, as English isn't the language they're written in to begin
>with. :-P
>
>Seriously, whatever language the aliens are "actually" speaking, their
>words are rendered in a language the reader is assumed to know. That's
>for an entirely different reason from assuming advanced technology.

Yes, but it's assuming advanced technology that works well for the
same reason - it serves the story. :)

FYI, when I was editing the Trek novels, I did one called BALANCE OF
POWER which was a struggle between the various Federation races to win
an auction of the estate of a wacky scientist guy with a fantastic
reputation and who apparently developed a super-weapon. Throughout
the entire book, Geordi keeps saying "this guy had a lot of great
ideas, but his stuff never works in practice." He's ignored because
he had a huge fight with the guy years earlier, and everyone thinks
that he's just down on the guy.

Well, the Federation has to join funds with the Klingons to put enough
money together to buy the estate, and they do find the plans for the
super-weapon. Federation and Klingon scientists work together to
build the device, they are all set for a big-deal trial....

.....and it doesn't work, for exactly the reasons Geordi has been
saying all along. Guy had great ideas that never worked out in
practice.:)

.

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