Re: (Big Hair Big Guns!) Fevre Dream by George R R Martin

On Thu, 1 Aug 2024 20:58:10 -0000 (UTC), James Nicoll wrote:
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In article <v8ghsp$28gvp$1@dont-email.me>, BCFD 36  <bcfd36@cruzio.com>
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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

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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.
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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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You had me looking that up. Would that have been the Eppleton Hall?
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