Path: ...!weretis.net!feeder9.news.weretis.net!panix!.POSTED.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: Fri, 2 Aug 2024 12:56:12 -0000 (UTC) Organization: Public Access Networks Corp. Message-ID: References: Injection-Date: Fri, 2 Aug 2024 12:56:12 -0000 (UTC) Injection-Info: reader1.panix.com; posting-host="panix2.panix.com:166.84.1.2"; logging-data="3482"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@panix.com" X-Newsreader: trn 4.0-test77 (Sep 1, 2010) Bytes: 2268 Lines: 32 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! -- 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