Isn't that what you do in a club or bar? Or even, to a lesser extent, a house party? I doubt toothers would just accept blindly anyone who replied (say, if upon seeing them, they were a hideous, snaggle-toother beast). So in a way, yes, I can say I have engaged in that kind of risky behavior (avec condom). Wouldn't do it again, tho.
Larry Niven *created* the idea of a ringworld (not technically in the novel, but rather in his essay about artificial worlds, which I can't find the name of--it is usually found in his collection All the Myriad Ways), so in that sense anyone who uses the "ring concept" is being influenced by him. Of course, I don't think that the Halo ringworld works without massive antigravity....and the day/night cycles must be really weird, with it rotating around a planet and a sun and itself. But much more than Stoker created vampires or Asimov robots, Niven created the idea of ringworlds. He was really first.
p.s. what's wrong with writing about rishathra? Are people so insecure that they can't imagine sex without ascribing perversions to their author?
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Isn't that what you do in a club or bar? Or even, to a lesser extent, a house party? I doubt toothers would just accept blindly anyone who replied (say, if upon seeing them, they were a hideous, snaggle-toother beast). So in a way, yes, I can say I have engaged in that kind of risky behavior (avec condom). Wouldn't do it again, tho.
Larry Niven *created* the idea of a ringworld (not technically in the novel, but rather in his essay about artificial worlds, which I can't find the name of--it is usually found in his collection All the Myriad Ways), so in that sense anyone who uses the "ring concept" is being influenced by him. Of course, I don't think that the Halo ringworld works without massive antigravity....and the day/night cycles must be really weird, with it rotating around a planet and a sun and itself. But much more than Stoker created vampires or Asimov robots, Niven created the idea of ringworlds. He was really first. p.s. what's wrong with writing about rishathra? Are people so insecure that they can't imagine sex without ascribing perversions to their author?