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|    Dan Goodman to Peter Knutsen    |
|    Re: YASID Re: Name of short story    |
|    26 Sep 08 17:18:15    |
      XPost: rec.arts.sf.written       From: dsgood@iphouse.com              Peter Knutsen wrote:              > Zeborah wrote:       > > It sounds familiar to me. If it's the one I read, then chances are       > > that       >       > You seriously mean that neither you nor Dan knows this story? It's       > like totally famous!       >       > > it appeared in Analog, probably 10-20 years ago. In my recollection       > > the whole society was in the cave, and there was some taboo about       > > going outside -- maybe he went in the night and sunlight was extra       > > dangerous?       >       > No taboo in the Bradbury story that I'm thinking of, but they did       > live in a cage. And it's older than 20 years, since I read it 22       > years ago, and in Danish translation. So changes are you're not       > thinking about the Bradbury story              Or that his memory is inaccurate -- which happens fairly often.              > (also, did he ever manage to       > squeeze anythig into Analog?).       >       > But I'm mostly just extremely surprised that neither you nor Dan       > knows about "Frost and Fire". I assumed it was easily on the top 10       > list of speculative fiction short stories that everybody knows about.                            --       --       Dan Goodman       "I have always depended on the kindness of stranglers."       Tennessee Williams, A Streetcar Named Expire       Journal http://dsgood.livejournal.com       Futures http://clerkfuturist.wordpress.com       Mirror Journal http://dsgood.insanejournal.com       Mirror 2 http://dsgood.wordpress.com       Links http://del.icio.us/dsgood              --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05        * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)    |
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