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Old 08-26-2015, 08:48 PM   #22718
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Originally Posted by pilotbob View Post
There's no "science" to this item. I'm just saying, a hard SF book where I expect fairly accurate science, like how a nuclear rocket would work, surprised me when such a simple thing was wrong.

Sure, alternate history and all, but I still don't think Chevy releases a 4 seater, even
Spoiler:
if JFK didn't die.
Dude, sometimes change just happens. Weird ripples, who knows? Maybe that spoiler shuffled someone into Chevy's team through a fifth- or sixth-order effect who said "hey, you know what'd be cool?" and got 'em to try it. It's a tiny thing twenty-plus years down from a nexus point. That's not "wrong" as a detail, nor is the author "wrong" for not explaining the exact chain of events that led to the difference.

Sure, it could be an unintended shift. Maybe you're right, maybe the author didn't realize that car didn't come in that model in this reality. That still doesn't make it wrong in his book, no more than having someone smoke "Dromedaries" in a TV show because they don't want the headaches of using Camels makes that show secretly alt-universe SF. It's an insignificant detail that you're overthinking.
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