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From: jdnicoll@panix.com (James Nicoll)
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Subject: Re: (Big Hair Big Guns!) Fevre Dream by George R R Martin
Date: Thu, 1 Aug 2024 20:58:10 -0000 (UTC)
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In article <v8ghsp$28gvp$1@dont-email.me>, BCFD 36  <bcfd36@cruzio.com> wrote:
>On 8/1/24 06:15, James Nicoll wrote:
>> Fevre Dream by George R R Martin
>> 
>> Steamboat entrepreneur Abner Marsh is rescued from financial disaster
>> by a mysterious benefactor who is curiously averse to direct sunlight.
>> 
>> https://jamesdavisnicoll.com/review/got-the-fever
>
>I listened to Fevre Dream whilst doing my organlegger job. Lots of hours 
>stack up between Boulder Creek and Sacramento via San Francisco Airport 
>and then home or Boulder Creek, to the airport, to UCSF Hospital and 
>back. I thoroughly enjoyed it. If his info on riverboats was correct 
>(adding fat to the firebox to increase heat, etc.), I learned a bit 
>about them in the process.
>
Pity my grandfather is dead. He was a font of knowledge about ship
steam engines. Engineer on the last paddlewheeler across the Atlantic.


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