[Ansteorra] OT: this is soooo cool

[Mike Wyvill]

When I worked for MCI in Pentagon City, a short walk took me to the Pentagon which had at that time (I assume it is still there) a shopping center underneath. It had a drug store, florist, a USGS store where you could get that map for that hike, but most importantly to me as a student of history, a bookstore.
 
It's where i got my first John Keegan book, the latest Sharpe book from Bernard Cornwell, where I discovered Stephen Coonts. What it didn't have was a large selection of SciFi books which may explain why Sir Jean Paul was a bit lonely.
 
What they did have in 1984 other than military related publications was a large collection of guide books to Nudist Resorts. I swear.
 
I would have liked to have asked Pournelle about H.Beam Piper though...
> Date: Tue, 15 Jan 2008 10:34:19 -0600> From: zubeydah at northkeep.org> To: ansteorra at lists.ansteorra.org> Subject: Re: [Ansteorra] OT: this is soooo cool> > Quoting Jean Paul de Sens <jeanpauldesens at gmail.com>:> > I think I was one of only two SciFi fans in the audience. Makes me wonder> > about government types.> > JP> > > I've read somewhere that NASA employees were polled, and something crazy like > 1/5th of all of them had been influenced in their choice of careers by the > writing of Robert Anson Heinlein and other SF authors... > > AT least there's some hope that folks still reach for the stars... > > - Zubeydah> > > > _______________________________________________> Ansteorra mailing list> Ansteorra at lists.ansteorra.org> http://lists.ansteorra.org/listinfo.cgi/ansteorra-ansteorra.org