On: 520 Days Later: Fake Mars Mission Ready to Return

[100k]

I hope real interplanetary space ships have wood panelling.

[joeyh → 100k]

I hope you've read Vinge's _A_Deepness_In_The_Sky_? :)

I wonder if anyone has written an essay of the significance of wood as a medium of value in science fiction. I first noticed it with the burl in Niven's the _Integral_Trees_, but it also shows up in Cherryh and lots of other authors.

[100k → joeyh]

Hmmm, I have forgotten the significance.

Another example: in Richard K. Morgan's Altered Carbon, "mirrorwood" from Harlan's World is prized on Earth, but used as a common building materia on its homeworld.

Let me know if you find that essay!