[LMB] authors goofs that bug me

[David McMillan]

James Nicoll wrote:
> I was somewhat distracted last night while reading [name withheld] because 
> the axis of rotation used by the spacestation in the book is dynamically 
> unstable (Imagine a pencil rotating like a bullet around the short axis).
> 
> Given time and perterbations and a total lack of station keeping, it will 
> end up going end over end. A torus would be a more stable design.

	Jack McDevitt made a boner like that in "Polaris" -- his characters are
aboard a several-centuries-abandoned space station (of the
carved-out-of-an-asteroid variety) which has fallen into a random
tumble.  Which would be fine, except that his characters are at one
point *inside* the station, and watching various debris and kipple
"slosh" about the room as the tumble causes the inertia vector to shift
back and forth.  Oy!