Re: [TML] Discussion Topic: Ansible Models (non 3I)
shadow@xxxxxx 04 Oct 2019 14:14 UTC
On 2 Oct 2019 at 20:35, Thomas RUX wrote:
> I know I've heard of ansible, but not in Traveller, after a search
> online I found that the device was found in Ender's Game by Orson
> Scott Card.
It was in Ursula K LeGuin's novels long before that. I believe she's
the one who came up with the name. (Ursula K. Le Guin coined the word
"ansible" in her 1966 novel Rocannon's World.)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ansible
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