From: "Erica VD Ginter" <eginter at klgai.com>
To: "'WSFA members'" <WSFAlist at keithlynch.net>
Subject: [WSFA] Re: A New Circle of Hell?
Date: Tue, 9 Jul 2002 18:22:31 -0400
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at keithlynch.net>

I donated my old Asimov's to the Rare Book Room at the Penn State library,
where they have an excellent SF collection. Perhaps your alma mater would be
interested.

Erica

-----Original Message-----
From: Strong, Lee [mailto:StrongL at MTMC.ARMY.MIL]
Sent: Tuesday, July 09, 2002 8:33 AM
To: 'WSFA members'
Subject: [WSFA] A New Circle of Hell?

	Actually, I believe that Dante did say something about boredom in
Hell.  Not reading magazine format SF in my misspent youth continues to
haunt my misspent age in that I still prefer books to magazines.  I bought
Turtledove's 497 page _American Empire:  The Center Can Not Hold_ Saturday
after noon and finished it last night.
	Say!  Does anyone in WSFA have a use for stacks of 1970s era Analogs
and Asimov's?

-----Original Message-----
From: Erica VD Ginter [mailto:eginter at klgai.com]
Sent: Wednesday, July 03, 2002 3:34 PM
To: 'WSFA members'
Subject: [WSFA] Re: Washington Weather Wonderland

Egad! Even Dante didn't imagine that particular circle of hell!

Erica

-----Original Message-----
From: Strong, Lee [mailto:StrongL at MTMC.ARMY.MIL]
Sent: Wednesday, July 03, 2002 3:16 PM
To: 'WSFA members'
Subject: [WSFA] Re: Washington Weather Wonderland

	In 1959-60, I was living in a medium sized town in North Carolina
where the most science fictional magazine I could find was the "Inventions
That I'd Like to See" feature in _Popular Mechanics_.

-----Original Message-----
From: Ted White [mailto:tedwhite at compusnet.com]
Sent: Wednesday, July 03, 2002 3:12 PM
To: WSFA members
Subject: [WSFA] Re: Washington Weather Wonderland

"Strong, Lee" wrote:

>         Been done.  Many moons ago, _Analog_ published a short story in
> which we developed effective weather control and rained on the Soviets
until
> their defense installations flooded and/or corroded.
>         Whilst watching the Western forest fires on TV, I flashed back to
> John Brunner's _Stand on Zanzibar_ in which idle hands commit sabotage for
> entertainment, and I wondered if Osama bin Ladin was taking notes.

Far better was "The Last Vial," serialized in AMAZING (two instalments)
circa
1959-60.  It dealt with a covert biological war between the US, China and
the
Soviet Union; the US used weather-tampering to ruin Russian wheat crops.

--Ted White