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   From: gunner@lightspeed.net   
      
   On Mon, 10 Apr 2006 15:27:19 GMT, "clintonG"   
    wrote:   
      
   >Yes, the book Lucifer's Hammer is fiction and the story is about how   
   >survivors react to a large scale cataclysmic event after a meteor strikes   
   >the earth.   
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   >The story is about police who won't or can't police anymore, neighbors who   
   >are no longer neighborly, gangs, cannibalism and all of the other aspects of   
   >social chaos that will emerge after a large scale cataclysmic event. Most of   
   >all this book will compel the reader to pull their head out of  their @ss   
   >and think about the sociological factors one must consider as they are the   
   >most considerable factors after all.   
   >   
   >   
   ><%= Clinton Gallagher   
      
   Indeed. Well worth reading.  Another, more dated one..is War Day.   
      
   Gunner   
      
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   >"Matt Barrow"  wrote in message   
   >news:vBs_f.7$1Q4.1206@news.uswest.net...   
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   >> "Gunner"  wrote in message   
   >> news:k4dk325eqvnvd0altb4p473p6fest4j7j2@4ax.com...   
   >>> On Mon, 10 Apr 2006 00:21:24 -0700, "Matt Barrow"   
   >>>  wrote:   
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   >>>>"clintonG"  wrote in   
   >>>>message   
   >>>>news:vAh_f.414$bi.88@tornado.rdc-kc.rr.com...   
   >>>>> Its fiction and its an older book written in the 1970s but go the   
   >>>>> library   
   >>>>> and check out "Lucifer's Hammer" (Niven, Pournelle), read it, and then   
   >>>>> tell me you want to live around Ohio or anywhere else in the Midwest.   
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   >>>>You'd make such an argument based on a work of FICTION?   
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   >>> It would depend on the accuracy of the data contained in the book.   
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   >> Fiction <--> data in book = ???   
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   "I think this is because of your belief in biological Marxism.   
   As a genetic communist you feel that noticing behavioural   
   patterns relating to race would cause a conflict with your belief   
   in biological Marxism."     Big Pete, famous Usenet Racist   
      
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