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From: freeman@spar.UUCP (Jay Freeman)
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Subject: Re: Tall Tales in a Bar
Message-ID: <407@spar.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 18-Jul-85 19:46:09 EDT
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[The line-eater is an intergalactic plot]

In article <492@mmintl.UUCP> franka@mmintl.UUCP (Frank Adams) writes:

>BTW, did those stories by Clarke create the "tall tales in a bar" subgenre,
>or did someone else do it even earlier?

Wasn't James Branch Cabell (correct spelling optional) an earlier SFnal (or
at least fantasy-nal) perpetrator of such stories?


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Jay Reynolds Freeman (Schlumberger Palo Alto Research)(canonical disclaimer)