The Counterfeit Heinlein (2011)
“Away back before the Clean Slate War, a school or college or university or scholarte whose initials were M. I. T. (for Massachusetts Indefinite Techniques, I think) was the home of an sf club, the Massachusetts Indefinite Techniques Science-Fiction Society, or M. I. T. S. F. S. This was pronounced Misfits for some damn reason, and the Ravenal group was named in its honor. M. I. T. had been, in a very small way, the Ravenal of its time, Mac said, with all sorts of important ideas having been bor...n there—the earliest cyberneticists were M. I. T. people, for instance.
The Misfits, as I was saying, didn’t look too misfitted to the actual world. One or two, perhaps—there was a Chandes Washington, for instance, a tall thin fellow with an enormous shock of white hair, a dark-brown complexion, and the wide eyes of someone who had got lost on the way to somewhere forty or fifty years ago, and had never really found his way back to Go. And there was Corri Reges, whose hair was pale blue and who wore small ancient spectacles with wire rims; behind them her eyes glittered very strangely.MoreLess
The Misfits, as I was saying, didn’t look too misfitted to the actual world. One or two, perhaps—there was a Chandes Washington, for instance, a tall thin fellow with an enormous shock of white hair, a dark-brown complexion, and the wide eyes of someone who had got lost on the way to somewhere forty or fifty years ago, and had never really found his way back to Go. And there was Corri Reges, whose hair was pale blue and who wore small ancient spectacles with wire rims; behind them her eyes glittered very strangely.MoreLess
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