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From: amigo2@ihuxq.UUCP (John Hobson)
Newsgroups: net.sf-lovers
Subject: Re: Re: Lathe of Heaven movie -- too bad - (nf)
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Date: Mon, 6-Feb-84 11:05:09 EST
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Posted: Mon Feb  6 11:05:09 1984
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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
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