Subject: Re: off-topic S/F trivia [was: Re: special forms ]
From: rpw3@rigden.engr.sgi.com (Rob Warnock)
Date: 23 Jul 2001 09:46:24 GMT
Newsgroups: comp.lang.lisp
Message-ID: <9jgrpg$5j3ah$1@fido.engr.sgi.com>
Michael Wildpaner  <mike@rainbow.studorg.tuwien.ac.at> wrote:
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| rpw3@rigden.engr.sgi.com (Rob Warnock) writes:
| > I wish I could recall the title/author, but there was an S/F novel
| > not too long ago with a *very* similar theme, where loss of life was
| > an unavoidable cost of interstellar travel [ ... ] 
| 
| I think you mean (or at least the theme is very similar):
|         Timothy Zahn: Dead Man's Switch (1988)
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Yup, that was the one. Thanks!


-Rob

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