At 08:03 PM 22/04/99 +0200, Anders wrote:
>was originally thinking some years back (around 91 or so) about
>space-living creatures, and the concept of living solar sails came
>up.
Don't John Varley's `Eight Worlds' symbionts - humans merged with alien space-dwelling slime molds - amount to a living solar sail? And Niven's star seeds (or did they just float haplessly from sun to sun?). And Donald Moffett's wonderful starfaring trees in THE GENESIS QUEST and SECOND GENESIS?
Very nice idea, it's true.
Damien Broderick