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From: pete@stc.UUCP (Peter Kendell)
Newsgroups: net.sf-lovers
Subject: Re: The Man Who Could Work Miracles
Message-ID: <378@stc-b.stc.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 13-May-85 19:09:13 EDT
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Posted: Mon May 13 19:09:13 1985
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In article <1925@topaz.ARPA> @RUTGERS.ARPA:Margolin.Multics@MIT-MULTICS.ARPA writes:
>From: Barry Margolin <Margolin@MIT-MULTICS.ARPA>
>
>     From: mtgzz!leeper@topaz.arpa (m.r.leeper)
>     Subject: GREAT SF STORIES (1939)
>
>     ... There is
>     even a reference in the story to a similar story in the film THE MAN
>     WHO COULD WORK MIRACLES.  ...
>
>Just to set the record straight, the film TMWCWM is based on the short
>story of the same name by a relatively unknown author named H.G.  Wells.
>The story is actually very short (about five pages), and quite
>enjoyable.  I read it about eight years ago while leaning against the
>library stacks.  I had previously seen the film, and it is a good
>adaptation.
>                                        barmar


FLAMEFLAMEFLAMEFLAMEFLAMEFLAME

	H.G. Wells unknown??? When and where were you born??? To speak of
	one of the founders of modern SF like this is ridiculous. Many of
	his stories (The Time Machine - it invented the time-travel genre,
	War of the Worlds - better written and more exciting + logical
	than any of its successors) stand up today better than the 
	forgotten work of later writers. 

FLAMEOFF

	The film of WOTW (1950s) is a fair attempt at moving the story
	from the English Home Counties to California -try it.


-- 
	Peter Kendell <pete@stc.UUCP>

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