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Re: A Dream: Mercury in a Spacesuit

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Butch Malahide <fred.galvin@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tuesday, February 16, 2016 at 10:42:21 AM UTC-6, Joe Bernstein wrote:
>> So this post is mainly a pseudo-YASID.  Where else besides <A Stone in
>> Heaven> and, I suppose, the movie <Gravity> do people actually go
>> meaningful distances in spacesuits?  How does that work?  (I mean, how'd
>> I *get* to Mercury without exhausting my air?)  For that matter, how
>> much is there about other ways to visit Mercury inadequately prepared,
>> and what happens next?
>>
>> And above all, what is there in written science fiction that conveys the
>> sheer terror of space in a spacesuit even as well as <Gravity> does, let
>> alone better?  <A Stone in Heaven> certainly doesn't go there.
>
> Here are three memorable stories on the terror-in-a-spacesuit theme.
>
> Robert A. Heinlein's "Ordeal in Space"
> Ray Bradbury's "Kaleidoscope"
> Bryce Walton's "To Each His Star" (available at Project Gutenberg)
>
> Pleasant dreams!

Allow me to add my thank you to Joe Berstein's for the "Kaleidoscope"
reminder. The other two stories that you mention are now on my "to be
read" list.

In another part of this thread Joe Berstein more or less says that his
dream frightens him more than "Kaleidoscope." That "horror lite" aspect
of both Bradbury and Poe enable those authors to go down easy for me.
YMMV.

--
Don Kuenz KB7RPU

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A Dream:  Mercury in a Spacesuit Joe Bernstein <joe@sfbooks.com> - 2016-02-16 08:42 -0800
  Re: A Dream:  Mercury in a Spacesuit Greg Goss <gossg@gossg.org> - 2016-02-16 17:20 -0700
    Re: A Dream:  Mercury in a Spacesuit "nuny@bid.nes" <Alien8752@gmail.com> - 2016-02-16 17:39 -0800
      Re: A Dream:  Mercury in a Spacesuit Cryptoengineer <treifamily@gmail.com> - 2016-02-16 23:39 -0600
      Re: A Dream:  Mercury in a Spacesuit David DeLaney <daviddelaney@earthlink.net> - 2016-02-17 03:49 -0600
    Re: A Dream:  Mercury in a Spacesuit "a425couple" <a425couple@hotmail.com> - 2016-02-16 19:34 -0800
    Re: A Dream:  Mercury in a Spacesuit Joe Bernstein <joe@sfbooks.com> - 2016-02-16 20:33 -0800
  Re: A Dream:  Mercury in a Spacesuit Butch Malahide <fred.galvin@gmail.com> - 2016-02-16 18:42 -0800
    Re: A Dream:  Mercury in a Spacesuit Don Kuenz <garbage@crcomp.net> - 2016-02-17 17:36 +0000
  Re: A Dream:  Mercury in a Spacesuit wdstarr@panix.com (William December Starr) - 2016-02-16 22:14 -0500
    Re: A Dream:  Mercury in a Spacesuit hamish.laws@gmail.com - 2016-02-16 19:26 -0800
    Re: A Dream:  Mercury in a Spacesuit Don Bruder <dakidd@sonic.net> - 2016-02-16 19:39 -0800
      Re: A Dream:  Mercury in a Spacesuit Joe Bernstein <joe@sfbooks.com> - 2016-02-16 21:24 -0800
        Re: A Dream:  Mercury in a Spacesuit Joe Bernstein <joe@sfbooks.com> - 2016-02-22 22:41 -0800
    Re: A Dream:  Mercury in a Spacesuit Cryptoengineer <treifamily@gmail.com> - 2016-02-16 23:46 -0600
      Re: A Dream:  Mercury in a Spacesuit wdstarr@panix.com (William December Starr) - 2016-02-18 22:58 -0500
      Re: A Dream:  Mercury in a Spacesuit Quadibloc <jsavard@ecn.ab.ca> - 2016-02-18 20:51 -0800
  Re: A Dream:  Mercury in a Spacesuit "a425couple" <a425couple@hotmail.com> - 2016-02-16 19:56 -0800
  Re: A Dream:  Mercury in a Spacesuit Quadibloc <jsavard@ecn.ab.ca> - 2016-02-17 00:47 -0800
    Re: A Dream:  Mercury in a Spacesuit Greg Goss <gossg@gossg.org> - 2016-02-17 02:13 -0700
      Re: A Dream:  Mercury in a Spacesuit Quadibloc <jsavard@ecn.ab.ca> - 2016-02-17 11:18 -0800
  Re: A Dream:  Mercury in a Spacesuit "a425couple" <a425couple@hotmail.com> - 2016-02-17 13:55 -0800
    Re: A Dream:  Mercury in a Spacesuit Robert Carnegie <rja.carnegie@excite.com> - 2016-02-18 01:58 -0800
      Re: A Dream:  Mercury in a Spacesuit Greg Goss <gossg@gossg.org> - 2016-02-18 09:48 -0700
      Re: A Dream:  Mercury in a Spacesuit wdstarr@panix.com (William December Starr) - 2016-02-18 23:04 -0500
        Re: A Dream:  Mercury in a Spacesuit Robert Carnegie <rja.carnegie@excite.com> - 2016-02-19 02:20 -0800
          Re: A Dream:  Mercury in a Spacesuit Cryptoengineer <treifamily@gmail.com> - 2016-02-19 23:30 -0600
  Re: A Dream:  Mercury in a Spacesuit peterwezeman@hotmail.com - 2016-03-14 18:38 -0700
    Re: A Dream:  Mercury in a Spacesuit Greg Goss <gossg@gossg.org> - 2016-03-14 20:28 -0600
    Re: A Dream:  Mercury in a Spacesuit wdstarr@panix.com (William December Starr) - 2016-03-18 11:45 -0400
      Re: A Dream:  Mercury in a Spacesuit ted@loft.tnolan.com (Ted Nolan <tednolan>) - 2016-03-18 16:13 +0000
      Re: A Dream:  Mercury in a Spacesuit Robert Carnegie <rja.carnegie@excite.com> - 2016-03-18 09:48 -0700
        Re: A Dream:  Mercury in a Spacesuit Peter Trei <petertrei@gmail.com> - 2016-03-18 09:57 -0700
      Re: A Dream:  Mercury in a Spacesuit Sjouke Burry <burrynulnulfour@ppllaanneett.nnll> - 2016-03-18 19:48 +0100
        Re: A Dream:  Mercury in a Spacesuit Kevrob <kevrob@my-deja.com> - 2016-03-18 12:10 -0700
      Re: A Dream:  Mercury in a Spacesuit Steve Coltrin <spcoltri@omcl.org> - 2016-03-21 19:20 -0600
        Re: A Dream:  Mercury in a Spacesuit David DeLaney <daviddelaney@earthlink.net> - 2016-03-22 15:16 -0500
          Re: A Dream:  Mercury in a Spacesuit Robert Carnegie <rja.carnegie@excite.com> - 2016-03-22 14:12 -0700
          Re: A Dream:  Mercury in a Spacesuit Steve Coltrin <spcoltri@omcl.org> - 2016-03-24 10:48 -0600

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