boyajian%akov68.DEC@decwrl.ARPA (07/12/84)
From: boyajian%akov68.DEC@decwrl.ARPA (Jerry Boyajian) > From: decvax!ncoast!bsafw@Berkeley (Brandon Allbery,524-1416) > > I remember reading a book about a world named Patra-Bannk which was > very much built -- (can someone netmail me the name of that book? > All I remember is the name of the planet and that it was VERY > similar to MISSION OF GRAVITY in plot) -- thin dirt shell on metal, > and a quantum black hole (& metallic-hydrogen factory) inside. The book you're thinking of is THE WORLD IS ROUND by Tony Rothman, published by Ballantine/Del Rey about 5-6 years ago, if memory serves. Another book about articial worlds is ORBITSVILLE, by Bob Shaw, which is about a Dyson Sphere. A terrible book, though (I read the serial in GALAXY -- or was it WORLDS OF IF? I'll have to check). --- jayembee (Jerry Boyajian, DEC, Maynard, MA) UUCP: {decvax|ihnp4|allegra|ucbvax|...} !decwrl!dec-rhea!dec-akov68!boyajian ARPA: boyajian%akov68.DEC@DECWRL.ARPA
bsafw%Berkeley@ncoast.UUCP (07/14/84)
From: decvax!ncoast!bsafw@Berkeley (Brandon Allbery,524-1416)
I remember reading a book about a world named Patra-Bannk which was very much
built -- (can someone netmail me the name of that book? All I remember is the
name of the planet and that it was VERY similar to MISSION OF GRAVITY in plot)
-- thin dirt shell on metal, and a quantum black hole (& metallic-hydrogen
factory) inside.
Brandon Allbery decvax!cwruecmp{!atvax}!{bsafw,stuart,ubbs}
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