mimus wrote:
> On Sun, 27 May 2007 16:51:40 -0700, lal_truckee wrote:
>
> > mimus wrote:
> >>
> >> This seems to be turning into just another lousy disaster flick, when
> >> what I was really wanting to stress was the giant steelies.
> >
> > Hey now! It wasn't me who set the conditions that 400m (440yd)
diameter
> > nickel-iron (AKA "steel") objects "fell from outer space onto the
> > Earth," which of course implies impacting with a minimum of earth
escape
> > velocity.
>
> Well . . . the idea was, really, that people would suddenly just have to
> deal (mentally) with these big steel balls around the place . . . .
>
> But suddenly people are going all ballistic on me.
>From indistinct memory, the novel _Age of Miracles_, by, uh, one of
those guys, might suit you. As far as I recall, small sharply defined
Zones of Weirdness just appear at a handful of locations around the
world. No one can do anything about them. No one knows what the deal
is. If you go in, you probably go crazy. Well, the Powers that Be
establish a security perimeter. Years pass...
And there's _The Kraken Wakes_, something under the deep sea kicks our
***** and we never see it.
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