Re: Lucky society

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• delriviere christophe <mich@thehzone.tzo.org> wrote: [...]
  > >There's no evidence for "luck" as an attribute of individuals, and I don't
  > >see any plausible way to posit a mechanism for it. Sounds a lot like "Psi."
  > >If either were proved to exist, that would be a huge scientific revolution,
  > >completely aside from possibilities of natural or sexual selection being
  > used
  > >to enhance any such abilities.
  > >
  >
  > of course ;) I was just kidding, I've read Ringworld some little time ago,
  > and one of the person in the book is choosen for a quest just because of her
  > extreme luck.
  >
  > delriviere
  > christophe
  

I knew I had seen that theme in a SF book at some point. There is also The Duck in
Spider Robinson's Callahan's stories, same deal -- improbable stuff happens around him
constantly. I think it's pretty craven of an author to use something that remarkable and not take a good shot at explaining it. Robinson can be
excused because no one would mistake his stuff for hard SF, but Niven ... sheesh.

I stopped reading SF for a long time because of stuff like this.

FCP

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