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Originally Posted by kennyc
I really don't know, I know both H and N used it -- Niven probably in the Known Space works as those are my favs. I read somewhere about Heinlein 'borrowing' it as he did many of his ideas (as all writers often do...). Niven probably stole it from Heinlein and I inadvertently changed it.
Ah here some (possible) info: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_lunch |
poking around in wikipedia didn't yield anybody being attributed to coining tanstaffl before heinlein, just the roots of the saying being from earlier times. oh well
