Damien Broderick wrote
>> Ronald Mallett thinks he has found a practical way
>> to make a time machine.
> I would *so* love it if a black physicist invents time travel!
Okay. So Arthur C. Clark once wrote a story about the
next Einstein being a black African (Nokromo, or something,
I don't remember which story---probably Childhood's End).
And Greg Egan also had the next great physicist being black
---in Distress, I think it was.
And now you. (At work, I just started your very fun
story of the Aboriginal scholar and his nephew who are
apparently set to teleport to the stars.)
By induction, one infers that all Empire SF writers really
like this idea. (Actually, the last longish book I read,
Cosm, by Benford, also had a black physicist making the big
next breakthough, so it's not exclusively Empire physicists,
though they came up with it first.)
Why exactly would you guys love it?
Lee Corbin
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