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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.   
      
      
      
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