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From: moews_b@h-sc1.UUCP (david moews)
Newsgroups: net.sf-lovers
Subject: Re: want norse gods book title
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Date: Mon, 21-Oct-85 18:21:15 EDT
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Posted: Mon Oct 21 18:21:15 1985
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> slb@drutx.UUCP (Sue Brezden) writes:
> >gordonl@microsoft.UUCP (Gordon Letwin) writes:
> >I'm looking for the title/author of a SF-fantasy novel in which a modern
> >man encounters the Norse mythical gods (while he's freezing to death,
> >I think.)  He's carried across the Bifrost where they're getting ready
> >for Ragnarok - the final battle with the Frost Giants.  He helps them
> >defeat the FG's with an atomic bomb...
> >I thought it was a good read when I was 14, and I'd like to try it again.
> 
> I think you are refering to one of the sections in The Compleat Enchanter
> by L. Sprague de Camp and Fletcher Pratt (Ballantine Books).  It is
> the first story and is called "The Roaring Trumpet".
    
     Well..."The Roaring Trumpet" doesn't exactly match this description.
In "The Roaring Trumpet," the hero is transferred into an alternate world
by some philosophical mumbo-jumbo, and only then meets the Norse gods:
he does not meet the gods in this world, and they do not then carry him across
the Bifrost bridge.  Also, there was no atomic bomb used in "The Roaring
Trumpet." Unfortunately, I can't think of any other book that might fit
the description.