Re: Interesting concultural ideas

On Tue, 4 Dec 2001, D Tse wrote:

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> Anyone else's people live on a ringworld or (yikes!) a Dyson sphere?
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> --
> Daniel Seriff
> microtonal@s...
> http://members.tripod.com/microtonal
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> Terry Pratchett's famous Discworld is ... as the name implies, set
> upon a pizza-like world, but it's more absurdist than scientifically
> plausible.
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> Oh, did I mention that the planet is set upon the backs of four
> elephants which stand on the back of a giant turtle? ;)
>
> Still, it's technically an example thereof.
Apropos of flat worlds, another one-off Terry Pratchett SF novel was set
on an artificially made planet that was rather flat and had some examples
of how it could be made... I think it's called _Strata_, but I could be
worng.

Tristan

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