MERCEDES-LACKEY Digest 2698 Topics covered in this issue include: 1) Re: scientists in books by Sarah Scrivano 2) Fire Rose by Ilaria1431-+AT+-aol.com 3) Re: scientists in books by Eleonora Scoseria 4) Re: scientists in books by "C. Ward" 5) Re: scientists in books by "Tim & Tiffanie Gray" ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Sat, 15 Sep 2001 20:11:08 -0700 (PDT) From: Sarah Scrivano To: mercedes-lackey-+AT+-herald.co.uk Subject: Re: scientists in books Message-ID: <20010916031108.13358.qmail-+AT+-web11008.mail.yahoo.com> --- Liz Hoffman wrote: > I asked the same question on a message board and got > a few unexpected > answers. Can anyone think of any realistic > scientists in books? The only > ones I could think of were Natoli from the Storms > book and maybe Master > Levy. Misty has a science background if I remember > her biog. right and > maybe thats why she hasn't written such major > stereotypes. > Liz Misty tends to use some stereotypical scientists in her books; in most of her "elvish" books (Bedlam Bards, Born to Run etc) she uses the stereotype of the "evil psychologist/biochemist trying to recreate/get hold of psychic powers to rule the world!" or so I've found. In Rediscovery & in the The Ship Who Searched, she doesn't use the evil scientist at all; but I think she must be most familiar with the "soft" sciences 'cause those are the ones she concentrates on; which is understandable after all, those sciences are the most "accessible" in that you don't really need a doctorate to understand the basic theory the scientist is trying to get across. MHO anyway. Until next time, Sarah S __________________________________________________ Terrorist Attacks on U.S. - How can you help? Donate cash, emergency relief information http://dailynews.yahoo.com/fc/US/Emergency_Information/ ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 15 Sep 2001 23:53:22 EDT From: Ilaria1431-+AT+-aol.com To: mercedes-lackey-+AT+-herald.co.uk Subject: Fire Rose Message-ID: <2b.1b47fe9f.28d57c32-+AT+-aol.com> --part1_2b.1b47fe9f.28d57c32_boundary Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit For those of you who have read Fire Rose, can you give me your opinions? Did you like it, did you hate it? Particularly, how would you characterize Rose? One of my friends, who hasn't read a Valdemar book, highly recommended it to me, and I've never read it, but my friend's characterization of Rose interested me, and I'm curious to hear what your opinions are. I'm going to go to the library to check it out, but I don't mind if you "spoil" it for me. Thanks!!!!!!!! Herald Jacquelle "Why do some people think that if you talk to God, you're praying, but if God talks to you, you're nuts?" Monica, Touched by an Angel --part1_2b.1b47fe9f.28d57c32_boundary Content-Type: text/html; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit For those of you who have read Fire Rose, can you give me your opinions?  Did you like it, did you hate it?  Particularly, how would you characterize Rose?  One of my friends, who hasn't read a Valdemar book, highly recommended it to me, and I've never read it, but my friend's characterization of Rose interested me, and I'm curious to hear what your opinions are.  I'm going to go to the library to check it out, but I don't mind if you "spoil" it for me.

Thanks!!!!!!!!

Herald Jacquelle

"Why do some people think that if you talk to God, you're praying, but if God talks to you, you're nuts?"  Monica, Touched by an Angel --part1_2b.1b47fe9f.28d57c32_boundary-- ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 16 Sep 2001 00:52:14 -0300 From: Eleonora Scoseria To: mercedes-lackey-+AT+-herald.co.uk Subject: Re: scientists in books Message-ID: <5.1.0.14.0.20010916004856.0292dec0-+AT+-infodynamics.com.uy> Hi, all! At 11:09 p.m. 14/09/01 +0100, Liz Hoffman wrote: >I asked the same question on a message board and got a few unexpected >answers. Can anyone think of any realistic scientists in books? The only >ones I could think of were Natoli from the Storms book and maybe Master >Levy. Misty has a science background if I remember her biog. right and >maybe thats why she hasn't written such major stereotypes. Thing that >surprised me about the answers I got was that I had the parents out of >Madeline L'Enge's Wrinkle in Time suggested as being a good portrayal of >scientists. I was surprised when I got in the biomedical science field >never to meet anyone like that, ever, in any place I went to. Did I feel >like an idiot when I realised that I'd fallen for a stereotype like that. Hmmm.....I'd say Fred Hoyle's portrayal of scientists in "The Black Cloud" was pretty accurate. And it got me into science, but that was AGES ago... And I have known a few researcher types *just* like the lady (I forget her name) who bioengineered the dragos of Pern. Other than that....I cannot think of any...offhand :) But I am sure more will come to mind as soon as I hit Send. Blessings to all, Ele Councilor of Mist ------------------------------ Date: 16 Sep 2001 16:11:21 -0000 From: "C. Ward" To: mercedes-lackey-+AT+-herald.co.uk Subject: Re: scientists in books Message-ID: <20010916161121.31351.qmail-+AT+-purina.chek.com> On Sat, 15 Sep 2001 02:01:05 +0100 (BST) M'lady Silver wrote: > > >Liz Hoffman wrote: > >> I asked the same question on a message board and got a few unexpected >> answers. Can anyone think of any realistic scientists in books? Hmmm. . .What about the scientists in Dragon's Dawn by Anne McCaffery? They start a whole new life on Pern? ~*~ Ciara ~*~ ________________________________________________________________ Get Free Anime Email, News, Links, Forums and Shopping at http://www.AnimeNation.com ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 16 Sep 2001 12:53:18 -0500 From: "Tim & Tiffanie Gray" To: Subject: Re: scientists in books Message-ID: <00e601c13ed8$791d35a0$bf861a3f-+AT+-TNTGRAY> > Sarah S > Misty ... must be most familiar with the "soft" sciences > 'cause those are the ones she concentrates on; which > is understandable after all, those sciences are the > most "accessible" in that you don't really need a > doctorate to understand the basic theory the scientist > is trying to get across. Hi, all, this is from Misty: >From: "Mercedes Lackey" >I've said I'm not a psychologist or a sociologist; I'm not an historian, nor an expert in religion, >foreign affairs, or terrorism. >What I am, is a biologist and ethologist, by training at least. So, there you have it! Hugs, Dax the Eternal, Councilor of Mist, who lost her sig in the Great Computer Reformat.... ------------------------------ End of MERCEDES-LACKEY Digest 2698 **********************************