Fiction with an interesting concept Options

[Wytil]

Several years ago an American author Robert A Heinlein introduced an interesting concept in some of his fiction novels. The concept was that fiction became real or alive as soon as enough readers beleived in it.
In the book "The Number of The Beast" the first device for such traveling was invented and off through whatever our heroes went. 8)
Among the places they visit
I wrote a short story a couple of years ago and put it on FF.net. I think it was probably incomprehensable to most of those who stumbled across it.
But then I would not be surprised, most stories with a philosophical bent would be.

[Ravenwood]

I just have to put a few cents in here. RAH's theory was that every story ever written was out there somewhere, but that if you went looking for them, you would end up in the stories you liked to read, IE, most of us would end up in HP type stories, or other fantasies.

At one point he postulated that there was a certain number of universes, lying side by side like pages in a book. That number of course, was the number of the beast; 6 to the 6th power to the 6th power... Which is one of those silly numbers, that humans really can't comphend.

RAH's The Moon is a Harsh Mistress is possibly the finest book I've ever read. (I so want to be a Lunatic Woman.

Edited because I'm the type of idiot that forgets to close tags.

This post has been edited by Ravenwood: Mar 3 2006, 08:58 PM