Nexus this coming weekend - hands up who's going
On Tue 03 Jul, Steve Rogerson wrote:
Nexus this coming weekend - hands up who's going
I'll be there. I'll also be taking a load of SF books for Oxfam.
If you have any books in good condition that you'd like to donate, please bring them along. Not just SF, we sold 190 books in the shop last week - loads of paperback fiction, an 18th century copy of Don Quixote (for 35 pounds), books on gardening, history, crafts, etc.
Judith
PS. Does anyone know where the name Jean-Luc Picard came from?
We've been donated a book over fifty years old called 'Between Earth and Sky' by Auguste Piccard. He was a Swiss, writing in French and the preface is by Jean Lugeon. It's all about a scientific journey Piccard made into the stratosphere (he was the first man to get that far) and the last chapter is a look forward to the future and he discusses how he hopes man will travel into space.
I wondered if he had been in any way the inspiration for the Star Trek captain.
On Tue, 3 Jul 2001, Judith Proctor wrote:
PS. Does anyone know where the name Jean-Luc Picard came from? We've
been donated a book over fifty years old called 'Between Earth and Sky' by Auguste Piccard. He was a Swiss, writing in French and the preface is by Jean Lugeon. It's all about a scientific journey Piccard made into the stratosphere (he was the first man to get that far) and the last chapter is a look forward to the future and he discusses how he hopes man will travel into space. I wondered if he had been in any way the inspiration for the Star Trek captain. <<
It sounds good; I think I may have even heard this proposed before. For some reason I can no longer remember I thought perhaps the Jean-Luc came from Jean-Luc Goddard.
Sandra Kisner sjk3@cornell.edu
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