Re: The family in the cellar

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"Keith F. Lynch" <kfl@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> writes:

> ObSF:  The scene in Vinge's _Marooned in Realtime_ in which people in
> an empty world build a castle, then jump forward a few centuries to
> give it a patina of age and decay before moving in.
>
> As I recall -- I haven't read it in over 20 years -- they also paused
> in their headlong flight into the future just long enough during an
> ice age to have a snowball fight.  How decadent.

Nah, decadent would be stopping in an ice age to pick up snowballs,
jumping
forward to high summer of the next interglacial, and _then_ having the
snowball fight.

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