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Originally Posted by Steve Jordan
Nice list (in a tongue-in-cheek sort of way). I was surprised that they mentioned Gene Wolfe helped develop the machine that cooks Pringles, while Robert Heinlein conceived the first modern water bed... but they neglected to mention that Arthur C. Clarke conceived of the communications satellite.
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I hadn't know the bit about Wolfe, but it wasn't a surprise. He was editor of Plant Engineering magazine for many years before retiring to write full time, and was someone who
could do something like that.
(I've met him. Nice guy as well as brilliant writer. I treasure my signed copies of the Urth of the New Sun series.)
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Dennis