According to Pavel Chekov anyway.
It wasn’t wheat, it was quadro-tritycale. A 4 lobed hybrid of wheat and rye, a perrenial too, if I’m not mistaken. It’s ancestry goes all the way back to 20th century Canada.
I did that from memory, so that’s something I learned from Science Fiction.
On my way in this morning I passed a bookshelf with a book from the 1960s. The book title was:
Nuclear Vessels
I’ve been ruined. In my head I heard Walter Koenig pronouncing it “Nu-klee-ahr Wessels”.
I wonder if Nicholas Meyer had a copy of that book on his shelf.
Canada, no. Russia, ask Pavel.
Scotland and Sweden. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Triticale
Is all your history so warped ensign? :dubious:
You know we invented that to.
The Warp drive that is.
Pavel’s Ghost
Have you noticed there are no Jews or Muslims* in Science Fiction? Wonder why.
*OK, I know about the Doctor on DS9.
“Mote in Gods Eye”. Niven & Pournelle both include Jews & Muslims.
I can’t think of many others but I have read several others with Jewish characters. Considering that no religion is commonly portrayed in Sci-Fi, I don’t think this is a big leap.
Now Amish in Space would be interesting.
Jim
Plenty of Jews in science fiction. Check out, for instance, the anthology “Wandering Stars”. Jack Chalker, among others, has Jewish heroes.
As for Muslims, they were rare in the past, but they’re becoming moere common. One of Jubal Harshaw’s houseguests in Stranger in a Strange Land is Muslim, and discusses religion. It’d be hard not to have Muslim characters in The Years of Rice and Salt. Harry Turtledove’s Colonization series has Khomeini as a major mover.
How about quasi-Amish Alien farmers?
Check out Zenna Henderson’s “The People” stories (NESFA Press has gathered them all into a single volume).
George Alec Effinger wrote a series of novels featuring Muslims. My steel sieve memory tells me that he had another novel in the series ready to go and it was cancelled because of 9/11. He has since died, and the novel is allegedly floating around in unpublished form.
He also wrote about the sublime Muffy Birnbaum, Barbarian Swordswoman, who was Jewish.
That is close, I forgot. I did read the first one many years ago.
I’ve thought that a perfect plot device for a science fiction show set in the future would be to have a main character be from an enclave of people who decided to fix their society at the tech level of late-20th century America.
How about “Reason”, from I, Robot? There is no Master but the Master, and QT is his prophet.
There might be a relative shortage of Jews and Muslims in English-language SF, but that’s easily explained by the fact that most English speakers (and hence most English-language authors, of any genre) are at least nominally Christian.
And SF, to date, has been predominantly the product of English-speaking cultures.
Or the robot army is SLOWLY unloaded from its carriers and detached from its shipping racks, while the Gungan army stands around politely waiting for them to be deployed.
There’s a guy wearing a kipa in an episode of Firefly. According to Alan Tudyk’s commentary, he’s a Space Jew, or a “spjew”.
It’s hard to face Mecca.
It was – when the comic of that name was in the old National Lampoon.
Damn they retroactively stole my idea. They must of used a time machine. I bet it was the slingshot effect.
Jim