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From: mouse@mcgill-vision.UUCP (der Mouse)
Newsgroups: net.sf-lovers
Subject: Re: story request
Message-ID: <349@mcgill-vision.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 21-Jan-86 23:57:32 EST
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Posted: Tue Jan 21 23:57:32 1986
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>>> Well, I don't remember anything about a story involving "obs", but
>>> [ ... ]
>> [ ... ] a story involving "obs" was the novel *The Great Explosion* by
>> Eric Frank Russell.  [ ... ]
> Hmmm.  Does anyone know if that is still in print?  I have a collection
> of short stories that has the 'obs' story in it, but I don't believe that
> it was tied in with any others.

     And you don't name the story or the collection??  Tsk tsk....

     The original request  seems to have left our system while  I was on
vacation.   Eric Frank  Russell  did  write  a story involving "ob"s. It
sounds like what little description I can gather from the above.  I also
happen  to think it's a lovely  story.  It is  called "...And Then There
Were None";  I  have it  in The Science Fiction Hall of Fame, volume IIA
(ed:  Ben Bova, ISBN 0-380-00038-5, Avon Books, Doubleday & Co, NY, NY).
Can anyone tell me if  this "The Great Explosion" is a longer version of
the same thing (oh Jayembee, Jaaayembeeee, where aaare you)?  And if so,
enough information to allow me to find the book?
-- 
					der Mouse

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