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|    Boron Elgar to Mark Brader    |
|    Re: For Comet fans    |
|    04 Jun 23 04:28:56    |
      From: boron_elgar@hotmail.com              On Sun, 04 Jun 2023 03:21:38 +0000, msb@vex.net (Mark Brader) wrote:              >Mark Brader:       >>> You must be talking about "No Highway in the Sky"... the novel       >>> it was based on (just "No Highway")...       >>> (By the way, Nevil Shute, its author, was a real-life airplane designer.)       >       >Boron Elgar:       >> "On the Beach."       >       >That's a *different* novel by Nevil Shute (also with a movie version).              VERY different. When I read it, I was quite young and considered it       horror.              --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05        * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)    |
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