• (Tears) The Daleth Effect by Harry Harrison

    From James Nicoll@21:1/5 to All on Mon Nov 25 13:56:42 2024
    The Daleth Effect by Harry Harrison

    Who can be trusted with protecting the secret of the potentially
    apocalyptic Daleth Effect? Only plucky Demark!

    https://jamesdavisnicoll.com/review/solutions-unsatisfactory

    This is late because someone sabotaged the infrastructure on which
    my access to the internet depends.
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  • From James Nicoll@21:1/5 to wthyde1953@gmail.com on Mon Nov 25 20:05:34 2024
    In article <vi2jaa$2v3lb$1@dont-email.me>,
    William Hyde <wthyde1953@gmail.com> wrote:
    James Nicoll wrote:
    The Daleth Effect by Harry Harrison

    Who can be trusted with protecting the secret of the potentially
    apocalyptic Daleth Effect? Only plucky Demark!

    https://jamesdavisnicoll.com/review/solutions-unsatisfactory

    This is late because someone sabotaged the infrastructure on which
    my access to the internet depends.

    Harrison actually lived in Denmark for seven years, and knew the country >fairly well for a foreigner. Somewhere he said that he left because if
    he stayed one more year he'd never leave.

    Ah footnote two. The "Anti Imperialist Alliance" and their fanatical >devotion to Albania, once they had to give up on China.

    I had a few beers with their Parliamentary candidate, Jules Grajower.
    We had a good conversation covering topics like WWII, Bertrand Russell,
    and quantum mechanics (despite their rejection of the USSR, the AIA was
    big on Lysenko and other Stalinist scientific nonsense). Albania, >fortunately, never came up. Even obsessives have to relax now and
    again, I suppose.

    A friend got labelled a nazi by their paper. I had more fun, but he won
    that round (he was, in fact, quite liberal).

    I wonder how many of the AIA people I talked to are now on the far right?

    I tracked down their prof mentor, whose name escapes me. He is using
    his twilight years to hammer away at Alberta's eugenics laws, pointing
    out the ways in which those were based on crap science. There are worse
    uses of time.
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  • From Mike Van Pelt@21:1/5 to wthyde1953@gmail.com on Tue Nov 26 22:50:46 2024
    In article <vi2jaa$2v3lb$1@dont-email.me>,
    William Hyde <wthyde1953@gmail.com> wrote:
    I had a few beers with their Parliamentary candidate, Jules Grajower.
    We had a good conversation covering topics like WWII, Bertrand Russell,
    and quantum mechanics (despite their rejection of the USSR, the AIA was
    big on Lysenko and other Stalinist scientific nonsense). Albania, >fortunately, never came up. Even obsessives have to relax now and
    again, I suppose.

    A friend got labelled a nazi by their paper. I had more fun, but he won
    that round (he was, in fact, quite liberal).

    Huh. I guess they define "Nazi" as "Anyone to the right of Enver Hoxa".


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