Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site topaz.ARPA Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!cbosgd!cbdkc1!desoto!packard!topaz!@RUTGERS.ARPA:jpa144@cit-vax From: @RUTGERS.ARPA:jpa144@cit-vax Newsgroups: net.sf-lovers Subject: Re: SF-LOVERS Digest V10 #44 Message-ID: <552@topaz.ARPA> Date: Thu, 7-Feb-85 18:35:23 EST Article-I.D.: topaz.552 Posted: Thu Feb 7 18:35:23 1985 Date-Received: Sat, 9-Feb-85 07:45:07 EST Sender: daemon@topaz.ARPA Organization: Rutgers Univ., New Brunswick, N.J. Lines: 27 From: jpa144@cit-vax (Jens Peter Alfke) The real Subject: Re: Identify This One, Please? > Ships were able to penetrate the sun by a field which somehow >polarized the molecules (atoms?) of both ship and sun allowing >those of the ship to "slip" between those of the sun. That's all I >remember except that the story involved one trip into the sun and >back out. I'm SURE this isor its sequel, both short stories by an author whose name escapes me at the moment. The premise to both is that Earth's weather is controlled by adjusting the temperature of the surface of the Sun. There are computers working out what to do to the Sun to produce the desired effect, and bases and ships on the Sun to dump "cold" gases (either carbon or oxygen) to produce the effect. involves an attempt to satisfy the last request of a dying man, to see snow fall at his home in southern California, and the sequel has the Weather Bureau trying to avert the destruction of the Sun by travelling all the way down to its core. Sure, sounds pretty implausible, but I was really impressed by the idea when I read these as a child. I still can't remember the author's name! Ah well. Hope this is of some help. --Pete