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From: zben@umcp-cs.UUCP
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Subject: Re: Title Request ("Frostbite, drugs")
Message-ID: <6123@umcp-cs.UUCP>
Date: Sun, 25-Mar-84 02:04:37 EST
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Posted: Sun Mar 25 02:04:37 1984
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Organization: Univ. of Maryland, Computer Science Dept.
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[I took the liberty of adding to the subject.  It was unreasonably general.]

    I'm trying to find the author and title of a story or novelette in
    which the hero, a reporter named Flannery, is sent to the planet
    Frostbite and uncovers a drug ring run by a man named Parsons.  The
    drug is called "JKB", and is supposedly addictive with one dose.
    The technology of news is all newspaper-style, complete with an AP
    wire service.  Thank you.

				-John Bishop
 
This sounds much like a book by Hal Clements titled "Iceworld".  I won't
spoil it for other readers, but does the name "tofacco" mean anything to
you?

You might also be interested in "The Nitrogen Fix", by the same author.

Ben Cranston      ...seismo!umcp-cs!zben       zben@umd2.ARPA