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| From | "Sea Wasp (Ryk E. Spoor)" <seawasp@sgeinc.invalid.com> |
|---|---|
| Newsgroups | rec.arts.sf.written |
| Subject | Re: Creative Political Systems in SF |
| Date | 2016-05-10 13:11 -0400 |
| Organization | A noiseless patient Spider |
| Message-ID | <ngt4gu$v3m$1@dont-email.me> (permalink) |
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On 5/10/16 1:04 PM, David DeLaney wrote:
> On 2016-05-10, Sea Wasp (Ryk E. Spoor) <seawasp@sgeinc.invalid.com> wrote:
>> On 5/9/16 8:11 PM, David DeLaney wrote:
>>> On 2016-05-09, Lynn McGuire <lmc@winsim.com> wrote:
>>>> Your house would be long gone. A 1500 ??? 2000 ??? F heat source in your
>>>> attic would have burned your house down very quickly.
>>>
>>> ObSF (since that IS what we're all here for, right?): _The Finches' Fabulous
>>> Furnace_, children's book by Drury from some decades back.
>>
>> Is that the one also titled in a spoilery way "Volcano in the Basement"?
>
> I'm guessing it is, though I never saw it with that particular marketing
> scheme attached. That is in fact the One Unbelievable Thing in this short SF
> novel (well, and the house NOT burning down or melting from the bottom up in
> lava).
>
> Dave
>
Well, the book had it as a tiny vent (whole cone was like three feet
across and one high, IIRC) that mostly just radiated heat. The problem
with that being that if it was venting that much hot gas (since
obviously there wasn't sufficient lava exposed to do the job) it
wouldn't have been breathable.
Still, I thought it was a fun book, even if there was no way to
actually justify the existence of a volcano there.
--
Sea Wasp
/^\
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Re: Creative Political Systems in SF David DeLaney <daviddelaney@earthlink.net> - 2016-05-10 12:06 -0500
Re: Creative Political Systems in SF Lynn McGuire <lmc@winsim.com> - 2016-05-09 16:06 -0500
Re: Creative Political Systems in SF David DeLaney <daviddelaney@earthlink.net> - 2016-05-09 19:11 -0500
Re: Creative Political Systems in SF "Sea Wasp (Ryk E. Spoor)" <seawasp@sgeinc.invalid.com> - 2016-05-10 09:36 -0400
Re: Creative Political Systems in SF David DeLaney <daviddelaney@earthlink.net> - 2016-05-10 12:04 -0500
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Re: Creative Political Systems in SF "Sea Wasp (Ryk E. Spoor)" <seawasp@sgeinc.invalid.com> - 2016-05-09 10:11 -0400
Re: Creative Political Systems in SF "Sea Wasp (Ryk E. Spoor)" <seawasp@sgeinc.invalid.com> - 2016-05-09 10:08 -0400
Re: Creative Political Systems in SF Greg Goss <gossg@gossg.org> - 2016-05-07 14:25 -0600
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Re: Creative Political Systems in SF Greg Goss <gossg@gossg.org> - 2016-05-07 14:29 -0600
Re: Creative Political Systems in SF scott@slp53.sl.home (Scott Lurndal) - 2016-05-09 16:34 +0000
Re: Creative Political Systems in SF Robert Bannister <robban@clubtelco.com> - 2016-05-10 08:52 +0800
Re: Creative Political Systems in SF Kevrob <kevrob@my-deja.com> - 2016-05-09 18:48 -0700
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Re: Creative Political Systems in SF Thomas Koenig <tkoenig@netcologne.de> - 2016-05-11 18:31 +0000
Re: Creative Political Systems in SF lal_truckee <lal_truckee@yahoo.com> - 2016-05-06 16:30 -0700
Re: Creative Political Systems in SF Lawrence Watt-Evans <lwe@sff.net> - 2016-05-07 00:09 -0400
Re: Creative Political Systems in SF Jaimie Vandenbergh <jaimie@usually.sessile.org> - 2016-05-07 11:48 +0000
Re: Creative Political Systems in SF Kevrob <kevrob@my-deja.com> - 2016-05-07 07:28 -0700
Re: Creative Political Systems in SF Robert Bannister <robban@clubtelco.com> - 2016-05-07 09:43 +0800
Re: Creative Political Systems in SF mcdowell_ag@sky.com - 2016-05-02 03:55 -0700
Re: Creative Political Systems in SF Quadibloc <jsavard@ecn.ab.ca> - 2016-05-07 16:56 -0700
Re: Creative Political Systems in SF patmpowers@gmail.com - 2016-05-07 19:30 -0700
Re: Creative Political Systems in SF Robert Bannister <robban@clubtelco.com> - 2016-05-02 08:47 +0800
Re: Creative Political Systems in SF Robert Carnegie <rja.carnegie@excite.com> - 2016-05-02 11:23 -0700
Re: Creative Political Systems in SF David Johnston <David@block.net> - 2016-05-02 15:18 -0600
Re: Creative Political Systems in SF Robert Carnegie <rja.carnegie@excite.com> - 2016-05-03 02:11 -0700
Re: Creative Political Systems in SF Jerry Brown <jerry@jwbrown.co.uk.invalid> - 2016-05-03 21:35 +0100
Re: Creative Political Systems in SF Butch Malahide <fred.galvin@gmail.com> - 2016-05-02 17:44 -0700
Re: Creative Political Systems in SF Don Kuenz <garbage@crcomp.net> - 2016-05-03 03:57 +0000
Re: Creative Political Systems in SF ted@loft.tnolan.com (Ted Nolan <tednolan>) - 2016-05-03 04:10 +0000
Re: Creative Political Systems in SF Don Kuenz <garbage@crcomp.net> - 2016-05-06 22:48 +0000
Re: Creative Political Systems in SF "nuny@bid.nes" <Alien8752@gmail.com> - 2016-05-03 11:52 -0700
Re: Creative Political Systems in SF Lynn McGuire <lmc@winsim.com> - 2016-05-04 17:12 -0500
Re: Creative Political Systems in SF Lynn McGuire <lmc@winsim.com> - 2016-05-04 17:51 -0500
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