  December 1999 Book Reviews Charles de Lint Elizabeth Hand
Michelle West James Sallis Chris Moriarty Plumage from Pegasus
Off On a Tangent: F&SF Style Kathi Maio Lucius Shepard Gregory
Benford Pat Murphy & Paul Doherty Coming Attractions F&SF
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Murphy & Paul Doherty  Bicycling at the Speed of Light  Under
the right conditions, Paul Doherty (physicist, rock climber, and
coauthor of this column) can bicycle at near-light speed.
Incredible, you say? Being a science fiction reader, you
probably know that light crosses the vacuum of space at 300
million meters or 186,000 miles per second. You probably also
know that Einstein's theory of special relativity indicates that
the speed of light in a vacuum is a constant--light always
travels at 186,000 miles per second. (As the favorite t-shirt of
one Exploratorium staffer says: "186,000 miles per second: Not
just a good idea. It's the law!")  So,