On Mon, 28 May 2007 05:51:58 -0700, Robert Carnegie wrote:
> 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...
See also Ballard's _The Crystal World_ (patches of apparent-- and
infectious-- eternity, appearing mostly in large near-equatorial wetlands)
and Delaney's _Dhalgren_ (the city Bellona checks out, although you can
hike in and out--maybe) . . . .
> And there's _The Kraken Wakes_, something under the deep sea kicks our
> ***** and we never see it.
I think I was looking more at something one of the more cheerfully surreal
guys might do, Sheckley or Disch or Malzberg ("O'Donnell"), or maybe even
Silverberg after an all-nighter, or maybe even an early "Cordwainer Smith"
. . . .
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