Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 exptools 1/6/84; site ihuxq.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!we13!ihnp4!ihuxq!amigo2 From: amigo2@ihuxq.UUCP (John Hobson) Newsgroups: net.sf-lovers Subject: Re: Re: Lathe of Heaven movie -- too bad - (nf) Message-ID: <594@ihuxq.UUCP> Date: Mon, 6-Feb-84 11:05:09 EST Article-I.D.: ihuxq.594 Posted: Mon Feb 6 11:05:09 1984 Date-Received: Thu, 9-Feb-84 06:39:00 EST References: <5413@uiucdcs.UUCP> Organization: AT&T Bell Labs, Naperville, IL Lines: 19 Some years ago, when Roger Duffey (where have you gone, Roger?) was moderating sf-lovers and it was part of the ARPAnet (the only way someone on the UUCPnet could get to it was through a system at Berkeley), I mentioned that the Lathe of Heaven reminded me of an H. G. Wells story called The Man Who Could Work Miracles. The Wells story was about a man who could make things happen just by wishing them. He finally tries to duplicate the feat in the book of Joshua (making the sun stand still in the sky) but forgets to take into account the law of conservation of angular momentum and manages to remove earth's atmosphere and everything not literally nailed down. He finally wishes he were back at the point before he realized he had this power and that he never discovers it. Didn't Roger Zelazny also write a short story along these same general lines? John Hobson AT&T Bell Labs Naperville, IL (312) 979-0193 ihnp4!ihuxq!amigo2