THE SCIENCE FICTION BOOK OF LISTS,
by Larry TrittenThree Hard-Science Extrapolations That Strain
the Credulity of Even a Science Fiction Fan
1. The barbecue sauce that stains the universe in C. J. Heering’s Bob’s Big Bang Burgers.
2. The polluted river in which fish begin to look like Jerry Lewis in Anson Heinster’s The River of No Return, No Deposit.
3. The explanation of why light travels so fast in Christopher Frisk’s Einstein Zwei Drei Vier: “Because it doesn’t have to stop for gas or to eat or sleep or argue with the wife and kids.”
Five Memorable Opening Sentences
1. “Coming down fast out of the time flux, Biolac hit the Restoration hard, bounced jerkily through the Renaissance, and came to a skidding halt in the Dark Ages, where his first thought was that with no potatoes or
