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echo: aust_avtech
to: Roy McNeill
from: Rod Gasson
date: 1996-08-12 19:58:08
subject: novel endings

G'day Roy,



10 Aug 96 22:50, Roy McNeill wrote to Poe Lim:



 RM> Careful, you can be fooled. I recall a criminal waste of paper

 RM> called "Down to a Sunless Sea", set on a passenger jet halfway



I quite enjoyed that book actually.



 RM> between somewhere and somewhere else alongwayaway when the

 RM> armageddon five minute nuclear war happens, and all the runways in

 RM> range melt. After half a book of assorted heartwrenching, they land

 RM> in a magically terraformed Antarctica, find it a Nice Place, plan a

 RM> future civilization, then discover in the Last Two Bloody Pages

 RM> that the big bad radioactive cloud is gonna kill them all. The last



That's why I liked it...  it didn't have a happy ending 



Cheers,

Rod



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