Path: ...!news.mixmin.net!eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Charles Packer Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.written Subject: Re: Things presented in-story as Good Ideas that seem like really Bad Ideas Date: Mon, 9 Sep 2024 08:01:52 -0000 (UTC) Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 12 Message-ID: References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Date: Mon, 09 Sep 2024 10:01:52 +0200 (CEST) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="a4a7ab30c47869af65f87841697a9f02"; logging-data="2460223"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1+efqIsZs+QzDYaRQ8B7YCD" User-Agent: Pan/0.158 (Avdiivka; ) Cancel-Lock: sha1:T1FjWOTkuvkKXYmp/tlJMzFeYtE= Bytes: 1320 On 9 Sep 2024 03:49:05 GMT, Ted Nolan wrote: > Lucky Starr's "Council Of Science", the Venus Belt, the Federation's > "Prime Directive". Things like that. > > Examples? > > (How about we exempt Super-Powered Vigilantes) For "Prime Directive," did you have in mind "With Folded Hands" by Jack Williamson?