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ted@loft.tnolan.com (Ted Nolan <tednolan>) writes:

> In article <slrnvgb71l.28g9.naddy@lorvorc.mips.inka.de>,
> Christian Weisgerber  <naddy@mips.inka.de> wrote:
>>On 2024-10-08, Lynn McGuire <lynnmcguire5@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> OK, I have heard it all now.  Apparently the USA government has a storm 
>>> enhancer machine using lasers and has used it to accelerate hurricanes 
>>
>>Early in the Mark Brandis series of German SF juveniles, the Western
>>bloc ("European American African Union") is taken over by a dictator
>>with black-uniformed enforcers *cough*, who then wants to go to war
>>against the Eastern bloc ("United Oriental Republics", i.e., China)
>>by unleashing an artificial megastorm as a superweapon.  Our plucky
>>heroes are forced into an underground resistance that needs to
>>destroy the storm factory in a daring raid to prevent all-out war,
>>before they can overthrow the mad dictator.
>>
>
> Has anyone checked Titan?
>
> 	https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/72339/pg72339-images.html

The link points to a Ben Bova story in "Amazing" called "The Towers of
Titan" that I read as a fix-up novel called "As on a Darkling
Plain". Apparently not one of Bova's best works, but I enjoyed it. 
  -Don-