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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: 2 Aug 2024 13:41:56 -0000
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In article <v8il1c$3cq$1@reader1.panix.com>,
James Nicoll <jdnicoll@panix.com> wrote:
>In article <pan$910d2$e4b50469$258960b2$73b5797a@cpacker.org>,
>Charles Packer  <mailbox@cpacker.org> wrote:
>>On Thu, 1 Aug 2024 20:58:10 -0000 (UTC), James Nicoll wrote:
>>
>>> 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.
>>
>>You had me looking that up. Would that have been the Eppleton Hall?
>>
>
>It would!

I reviewed Newhall's book on the adventure:

https://jamesdavisnicoll.com/review/the-tyne-tug-caper

For some reason, my grandfather Scott* attracted counter-
intuitive descriptions. "Scottish", and "Edwardian", even 
though he was raised in Hawaii, and the Edwardian era was 
a small part of his long life. Plus, since he was American, 
why use a British period? Meanwhile, over in the folk music
scene, there is this line:

"Scott turned the pages of his book and said in accents raw,"

He sound pretty bog-standard American to me. 

https://www.malvinareynolds.com/mr147.htm

* Yes, he was a ship's engineer nick-named Scotty. 
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