Hi Charles,
Glad to have helped you relive old times! Also glad to hear it wasn't 40 years ago, either!
I checked on my original document, and you did in fact say, "stellar navigator" way back then. If you would like me to change it to "solar navigator", be glad to do so. Hey, we writers are always changing things! Nina and I like to label our final version as the "Gold Edition" which theoretically is the one that gets published. Naturally what was actually published came two versions later, as we couldn't resist embellishing a small passage, or fixing one more misplaced comma or quotation mark.
Similarly, there are 5 times the word "elasticity" appears in the your text, but none of those in the original document was asociated with the word "modus". In fact, "modus" does not appear at all. It's possible you had that phrase in an earlier or later version than than the one I have, but again, tell me where to put it, and I'll be happy to do so. Just contact me off line with any text changes.
Based on your comment, I changed the date to 1988, 24 years prior to now, instead of 1989. If you remember the month and day (haha), let me know, but I needed something to plug the system. There was no date on the original.
If you find anything else you perceive as discrepencies, let me know offline. Yours was one of the more difficult documents to convert to online suitability because the scanned version did not come out too well, possibly because there were drawings and electronic noise already in the "original". As a result, I retyped portions and could easily have missed or misinterpreted something, although not the two you mentioned. By the way, if you would like a copy of your original document, which contains a nice drawing of the sphere, but which couldn't be duplicated on AO3, send me your address offline, or I can try faxing it as well.
As someone interested in writing science fiction rather than fantasy in my STARMAN fan fics, I enjoyed your take on the scientific principles behind the sphere. Nina and I use varying wavelengths and frequencies of light energy for Starmen and adolescent Starboys to manage their source of portable energy, which also requires their mental focus and concentration as you mentioned, so your theories fit in with ours.
STARMAN did have a tremendously emotional effect on probably all of us in the fandom, or we wouldn't still be here 25 years later. That's pretty amazing for a single-season TV show!
Chuck S.
-----Original Message-----
From: Charles Lietwiler
Sent: Jun 22, 2012 10:51 AM
To: Official SSI Discussion List
Subject: Re: [SN] One New Story and Several Others Now Up on How Novel as of 6/22
Dear Chuck,
This is the first time I have read this article in almost forty years. Obviously, I have forgotten a lot of it. Some things I don't remember writing. Did you enhance it by adding things? For example, I don't think that I would have used the term "stellar navigator", which I interpret as "really great navigator". "Solar navigator" maybe. And I remember using the term "modulus of elasticity", which I did not find in this version. At any rate, the article makes me sound so smart that I am amazed at myself. Starman obviously had a powerful emotional effect on me.
Charles
----- Original Message -----
Sent: Friday, June 22, 2012 1:25 AM
Subject: [SN] One New Story and Several Others Now Up on How Novel as of 6/22
Hi everyone,
Nina and I are pleased to announce our next story, What Would Dad Say? Episode 2 of STARMAN The Next Generation is now posted. Like our previous one, we consider this a 25th Anniversary STARMAN Fan Fiction, this time commemorating the founding of SSI on May 22, 1987. You can see Im big on history! Its set in the immediate aftermath of Scott becoming a first time dad of the 10 year old boy described in TNG, but can certainly be enjoyed without having read the original story. Here, Scott learns the joys and tribulations of instant fatherhood, while searching for larger quarters somewhere near his parents in Baraboo, Wisconsin to replace his cramped bachelor pad in Madison. As he tries to teach STARMAN family values to Scotty, he finds himself often asking himself, What would Dad say? While hiking around Devils Lake near Baraboo, Paul and Scott discuss parenting and Scotts feelings for Julie. Scotts parental skills are put to the test when Scotty experiences his first crisis in dealing with real life, and Scott has to come up with an answer to a pivotal question his son raises. 11,126 words. http://archiveofourown.org/works/438838
Other stories posted this time are:
Its Not Magic by Charles Leitwiler, 1989, 3971 words. http://archiveofourown.org/works/434145
How exactly does that sphere work, anyway?
Rest Stop by Ellen Jackson, 1991, 660 words. http://archiveofourown.org/works/434131
Scott asks his father questions about how choices are made by his people about which other planets to contact.
Theyre Not History Yet by Vicki Hessel Werkley, 2003, 548 words. http://archiveofourown.org/works/434094
Paul and Scott eagerly await the next edition of Blue Lights.
Our Troubles Werent So Different by Vicki Hessel Werkley, 1988, 4,417 words. http://archiveofourown.org/works/434085
A different take on "Peregrine" - from Waldo's point of view!
Crazy Like a Fox by Zena Uzep, 1999, 6,356 words. http://archiveofourown.org/works/433419
Fox Mulder comes up against George Fox while trying to catch Paul Forrester. Instead, the four agents get caught by unfriendly aliens, and it's Paul Forrester to the rescue!
STAR RETURN WRITING CONTEST: Details of the contest are posted at: http://archiveofourown.org/collections/STARMAN_Writing_Contest.
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Chuck S.
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