On Mon, 27 Jul 2020 16:22:19 -0400, xxxxxx@gmail.com wrote to Freelance
Traveller:

>After Tim's typo, I'm left wondering....
>
>... is a 'ficton' some form of elementary particle? ("Professor, the
>ficton density is increasing the closer we get to one Collinson's PCs....")

Actually, in _"The Number of the Beast--"_, Heinlein discusses this very
question (and uses the term 'ficton' [sic] as though it were a notional
elementary particle, plural undecided as to 'fictons' or 'ficta'). Get the
book and read it. Although the question does _not_ come up in _The Pursuit
of the Pankera_, get that one, too; they should be read "side-by-side", and
be aware that the first couple of dozen chapters are word-for-word
identical.

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