Date: Wed, 20 Apr 2005 18:11:15 -0400
From: "Michael Walsh" <MJW at press.jhu.edu>
To: <WSFAlist at WSFA.org>
Subject: [WSFA] Re: Third Friday Minutes
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at WSFA.org>

> dicconf at radix.net 4/20/2005 6:01:28 PM >>>
>
>On Wed, 20 Apr 2005, Michael Walsh wrote:
>
>> > macbuccfo at msn.com 4/20/2005 1:40:12 PM >>>
>> >And what, might you image, did them red-skinned folks have to
>say about
>> >them silly Europeans? Too bad they didn't have any plagues them
>could
>> >give the intruders to their shores. Might have changed history in
>> >significant ways...
>>
>> "Hello, Harry...  I have an idea for new alt history series for
>> you..."
>
>Who was it -- ?AJ Budrys? -- who wrote "A Star Above It",

If the story title is correct, then Chad Oliver, which makes more sense
considering the story idea.
See: http://www.nesfa.org/press/Books/Oliver-1.html &
http://www.scifi.com/sfw/issue341/excess.html

> in which
>the
>protagonist actually (if theat's the word I want) tried to create an
>alternate history by importing horses to the New World and letting
>the
>Indians discover their uses before the Spanish arrived?

mjw

>
>-- Dick Eney