Path: ...!weretis.net!feeder9.news.weretis.net!panix!.POSTED.panix2.panix.com!panix2.panix.com!not-for-mail From: jdnicoll@panix.com (James Nicoll) Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.written Subject: Re: (Big Hair Big Guns!) Fevre Dream by George R R Martin Date: 2 Aug 2024 13:41:56 -0000 Organization: PANIX -- Public Access Networks Corp. Lines: 54 Message-ID: References: Injection-Info: reader1.panix.com; posting-host="panix2.panix.com:166.84.1.2"; logging-data="12565"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@panix.com" Bytes: 2965 In article , James Nicoll wrote: >In article , >Charles Packer wrote: >>On Thu, 1 Aug 2024 20:58:10 -0000 (UTC), James Nicoll wrote: >> >>> In article , BCFD 36 >>> 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. -- My reviews can be found at http://jamesdavisnicoll.com/ My tor pieces at https://www.tor.com/author/james-davis-nicoll/ My Dreamwidth at https://james-davis-nicoll.dreamwidth.org/ My patreon is at https://www.patreon.com/jamesdnicoll