Conference noted::sf

    	Wasn't this the premise in Douglas Adams' sequel to THE HITCH-
    HIKER'S GUIDE TO THE GALAXY, THE RESTAURANT AT THE END OF THE 
    UNIVERSE:  That whenever someone discovered how the Universe really
    worked, a completely new way was suddenly created and put you back
    at square one.
    
    	Larry
    

Heinlein's "Waldo" is based on this idea.

-dave

    
    re: .1
    
    sort of like that scrabble theorem, eh?
    
    :')
    
    

Could well be "The New Reality" by  Charles L Harness (in the
collection "The Rose")

   I recall recently reading a story like this -- I believe it was in a
collection edited by Ben Bova, where he was replacing Gardner Dozios, published
within the last year or two.  ("Universe" perhaps was the collection name?)

   I don't want to identify the ending, I feel it would spoil the story.  (And
I can't figure out how to get DECwindows VAXnotes to insert a form-feed for
spoiler alerting...)

					-mjg

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    	I am looking for the name ,of the short story and thename of the
    book, that is about a boy who always got what he wanted no matter what
    it was. if he asked for purple ice cream that tasted like coffee he got
    it. 
    	The ending which is stuck forever in my mind follows...
    
    	He said he was going to stay in this EXACT spot untill he got his
    way. So that wish killed him! the explanation follows...
    
    
    	Lets see the earth rotates on its own axis, around the sun, the sun
    around the arm of the galaxy, and the galaxy retates.....
    	

RE: .6  -< The little boy who always got his way. >-

"Stubborn" by Stephen Goldin.  

I found it in "100 Great Science Fiction Short Short Stories", edited
by Isaac Asimov, Martin Harry Greenberg and Joseph D. Olander, published
in 1978 by Pan Science Fiction.

Interestingly enough, though the story was attributed to Stephen Goldin,
the copyright is to David Gerrold in 1972.

-- Ken Moreau

    re:.7
    
    The copyright is to Gerrold probably because the story first appeared
    in an anthology edited by Gerrold (probably PROTOSTARS), and for
    whatever reasons, Gerrold maintained the copyrights for a length of
    time.
    
    --- jerry

I am looking for the author of a series of books that may be out of print:

The titles are:

The Forgotten Star
Captives in Space
Journey to Jupiter

I read these as a youth and would like to find them if possible

Thanks 

Steve

...and on the subject of a title

anyone remember a short story from some years back


{outline}

Sometime in the future an election is taking place.. which
is almost 100% certain to be won by the moderate canditate
(over his war-like and generally unpleasant opponent)
..just before the election a party of 'hunters' is sent back in
time to hunt dinosaurs.. now while hunting they must only
shoot selected dinosaurs (just before they would have died anyway)
and must walk on floating paths so as not even tread on the ground
.. but one member of the hunting party falls (?) off the path and 
does touch ground

when the party return to their own time they find everything
just as it was before.. except that that war-like canditate
has won the election.. which everyone else (but them) thinks 
is a good idea, at first they are lost for an explanation
as to what has happened.. but when they check the shoes of
the hunter that fell off the path they find a single crushed
butterfly.. and that single act has rewritten their present


anyone remember it ?

The <??> of Thunder.  (Ray Bradbury?)

    >The <??> of Thunder.  (Ray Bradbury)

     This is the way I remembered it, too.

    It's in his collection _Golden Apples of the Sun_