From: laura@nospam.me   
      
   "David Mitchell"  wrote in message   
   news:pan.2004.12.27.09.10.22.636000@edenroad.demon.co.uk...   
   > On Mon, 27 Dec 2004 08:36:18 +0100, Laura wrote:   
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   > > "personalpages.tds.net/~rcsilk"  wrote in   
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   > > news:41cf87d7_1@newspeer2.tds.net...   
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   > >> There was a book written, some years ago, about a magician named Theron   
   > >> Ware.  I can't remember the title, unless it was "Black Sabbaoth" or   
   > > "Black   
   > >> Easter" or some such --   
   >   
   > It was written by James Blish: in the UK there were two books,   
   > "Black Easter" and "The Day after Judgement".   
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   > > Whoa! Sounds like one hell of a story :-)   
   >   
   > It is.   
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   > > Reminds me a bit of one called "Inferno" (not the one by Dante Aligheri)   
   > > written by Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle. If you found the one you   
   > > described to me entertaining, you ought to read this one as well :-)   
   >   
   > Gruesome but good.  Did you recognise the "guide" character?   
      
   In Inferno? Sure :-) Recognised him pretty quickly, and it IS confirmed   
   later on in the book. Won't say here who he was, though. That would be a   
   potential spoiler.   
      
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