{"id":614,"date":"2006-09-20T05:33:43","date_gmt":"2006-09-20T10:33:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fantasist.net\/scroll\/?p=614"},"modified":"2006-09-20T05:33:43","modified_gmt":"2006-09-20T10:33:43","slug":"hoffmans-quartet-possible","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fantasist.net\/scroll\/index.php\/2006\/09\/20\/hoffmans-quartet-possible\/","title":{"rendered":"Hoffman’s Quartet Possible"},"content":{"rendered":"

Or, putting a little more science into science-fiction.<\/p>\n

Way back in the Old Days, before I was so weighed down with bills and obligations to creditors, I dreamed that I’d pay my way writing science-fiction.\u00a0 As a result of that dream, I commissioned one Sheridan Simon to build a solar system for me.\u00a0 Specifically, a system with four habitable worlds that might have developed independantly.\u00a0 The result was far more than I could have hoped for and I made that available via this website some time ago, as Hoffman’s Quartet<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Now, however, it seems that Dr. Simon was\u00a0 more spot on than I could have imagined, lo, those many years ago.\u00a0 Just recently, National Geographic ran a news story talking about habitable planets circling so-called “hot Jupiters”<\/a>, which are more properly “brown dwarfs”.\u00a0 Back in 1992, when Sheridan Simon crafted this hypothetical world system for me, that’s precisely how he got me my requested four habitable worlds.
\nIt’s been interesting over the years to see the several pseudo predictions he made in creating that extra-solar system for me come true.\u00a0 Or, more accurately, becore more popular.\u00a0 I wish he were still around to see it, but, sadly, Sheridan Simon passed away a number of years ago.
\nMaybe I’ll take up that system again and write a story or two, dedicated to Dr. Simon.\u00a0 Just because that world system has become timely again, and, somehow, evokes an interesting flavor of nostalgia in me.\u00a0 Ah, the good old days.\u00a0 Everything old is new again.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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