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Don Sailorman on July 6, 2006 - 12:32am Permalink | Subthread | Comments top
I suggest that TODers post short installments of their science fiction stories relevant to peak oil and abrupt climate change.

Rules: No more than 350 words in any one post.
No more than 900 words in any one day, posted perhaps at six hour intervals to keep us on tenterhooks.

I'll start the ball rolling with page 1 of "The Adventures of C.C. Eggum" tomorrow morning shortly after thredbot does her thing.

Then I'll post a couple of pages later, and if I get positive response, I'll finish up chapter 1 on late Friday and early Sat. morning.

The hungrier you are, the more I'll feed you.

If you want to post comments, please show as much respect for my feelings as I do for those of others (which, admittedly, is not much;-) However, constructive criticism will be MUCH appreciated, and you'll get your name in the list of acknoledgements, which I hope will run to some hundreds of bright and witty folk such as we are here.

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Rick on July 6, 2006 - 7:52am Permalink | Subthread | Parent | Comments top
Summer reading: Robert Stone's Odyssean yachting novel Outerbridge Reach
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BrownBear on July 6, 2006 - 9:10am Permalink | Subthread | Parent | Comments top
I would like to recommend Mother of Storms by John Barnes. This book has some evocative descriptions of gigantic hurricanes created by the release of methane thats trapped in the form of clathrates in the bed of the Arctic ocean.
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alan on July 6, 2006 - 10:36am Permalink | Subthread | Parent | Comments top
Was that the one with the supersonic hurricanes?
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Don Sailorman on July 6, 2006 - 9:53am Permalink | Subthread | Parent | Comments top
Note that in their complexity and relevance to many disciplines, peak oil resembles love and war.

Tolstoy's "War and Peace" contains more insight and useful ideas on both love and war than any fifty nonfiction books I can think of.

No, I'm not as good as Tolstoy. Not as good as Heinlein.

But . . . I'm getting better;-)

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Vermont Agatha Zoe on July 6, 2006 - 10:27am Permalink | Subthread | Parent | Comments top
I am interested to read your story, Don. I am myself trying to write a novel, which will be tangentially at least about Peak Oil. I am writing partly out of my experience growing up in equatorial West Africa in the late '40s and early '50s, where my father was a petroleum engineer working for Socony-Vacuum (now, of course, called Mobil Oil)in Nigeria and Angola.
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Don Sailorman on July 6, 2006 - 10:58am Permalink | Subthread | Parent | Comments top
In about one hour I'll post the first installment of "The Adventures of C.C. Eggum."

After I show mine, please do the same with yours. Pretty please . . . with sugar on top!

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