The Cumaean

Jeff Wilson · 10 May 2013, 05:48 · from 2013-May.txt.gz

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From: jwilson at clueland.com (Jeff Wilson)
Date: Fri, 10 May 2013 00:48:58 -0500
Subject: (urth) The Cumaean
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On Thu, May 9, 2013 22:28, Andy Robertson wrote:
> ???? I don't see it - can you explain?

In the story, ships travel through a medium that inflicts horrible, almost
universally fatal pain that requires frozen passengers to travel under the
care of crewmen with nigh-perpetual nerve blocks until it is discovered
that ship hulls lined with lesser living things shield the interior while
the bunnies or oysters or whatever die instead; wood/trees perhaps in
Tzadkiel's case.

http://www.baenebooks.com/chapters/1416521461/1416521461___5.htm

-- 
Jeff Wilson - < jwilson at clueland.com >
A&M Texarkana Computational Intelligence Lab
< http://www.tamut.edu/cil >

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