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   From: seawasp@sgeinc.invalid.com   
      
   David DeLaney wrote:   
   > David Friedman  wrote:   
   >> Jaimie Vandenbergh  wrote:   
   >>> Peter Knutsen  wrote:   
   >>>> 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.   
   >>> *puts up hand*. Hi, I'm Jaimie, I've been reading SF for thirty years,   
   >>> and I've never read "Frost and Fire" although I have read many other   
   >>> Bradbury stories.   
   >>>   
   >>> I assume that it's well off the top 10 must-reads, since I've never   
   >>> heard of it in those terms before - and I've been on rasfw for over a   
   decade.   
   >> I've been reading SF for fifty years or so and, so far as I know, have   
   >> never read the story nor, prior to this discussion, heard of it.   
   >   
   > I can only claim about 40 years; I don't _remember_ reading it, but may well   
   > have at some point. However, if I have, it's been quite overshadowed for me   
   by   
   > Zelazny's story (and collection) of the same name.   
      
   	I have heard of it -- here on r.a.sf.w.   
      
   	Never, as far as I know, seen or read it.   
      
   	Of course, I'm not tremendously into short fiction. I read quite a few   
   anthologies when I was younger, but for the most part I read novels.   
   Short fiction... well, it's SHORT. It's like eating doughnuts; one   
   doesn't satisfy, you need a bunch of them, and overall I'd rather have a   
   steak anyway rather than a bunch of lightweight puffy things.   
      
      
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