Fevre Dream by George R R Martin

Steamboat entrepreneur Abner Marsh is rescued from financial disaster
by a mysterious benefactor who is curiously averse to direct sunlight.

https://jamesdavisnicoll.com/review/got-the-fever
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On 8/1/24 06:15, James Nicoll wrote:

Fevre Dream by George R R Martin

Steamboat entrepreneur Abner Marsh is rescued from financial disaster
by a mysterious benefactor who is curiously averse to direct sunlight.

https://jamesdavisnicoll.com/review/got-the-fever

I listened to Fevre Dream whilst doing my organlegger job. Lots of hours
stack up between Boulder Creek and Sacramento via San Francisco Airport
and then home or Boulder Creek, to the airport, to UCSF Hospital and
back. I thoroughly enjoyed it. If his info on riverboats was correct
(adding fat to the firebox to increase heat, etc.), I learned a bit
about them in the process.

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In article <v8ghsp$28gvp$[email protected]>, BCFD 36 <[email protected]> wrote: >On 8/1/24 06:15, James Nicoll wrote:

Fevre Dream by George R R Martin

Steamboat entrepreneur Abner Marsh is rescued from financial disaster
by a mysterious benefactor who is curiously averse to direct sunlight.

https://jamesdavisnicoll.com/review/got-the-fever

I listened to Fevre Dream whilst doing my organlegger job. Lots of hours >stack up between Boulder Creek and Sacramento via San Francisco Airport
and then home or Boulder Creek, to the airport, to UCSF Hospital and
back. I thoroughly enjoyed it. If his info on riverboats was correct
(adding fat to the firebox to increase heat, etc.), I learned a bit
about them in the process.

Pity my grandfather is dead. He was a font of knowledge about ship
steam engines. Engineer on the last paddlewheeler across the Atlantic.


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On Thu, 1 Aug 2024 20:58:10 -0000 (UTC), James Nicoll wrote:

In article <v8ghsp$28gvp$[email protected]>, BCFD 36 <[email protected]> wrote:

On 8/1/24 06:15, James Nicoll wrote:

Fevre Dream by George R R Martin

Steamboat entrepreneur Abner Marsh is rescued from financial disaster
by a mysterious benefactor who is curiously averse to direct sunlight.

https://jamesdavisnicoll.com/review/got-the-fever

I listened to Fevre Dream whilst doing my organlegger job. Lots of hours >>stack up between Boulder Creek and Sacramento via San Francisco Airport
and then home or Boulder Creek, to the airport, to UCSF Hospital and
back. I thoroughly enjoyed it. If his info on riverboats was correct >>(adding fat to the firebox to increase heat, etc.), I learned a bit
about them in the process.

Pity my grandfather is dead. He was a font of knowledge about ship steam engines. Engineer on the last paddlewheeler across the Atlantic.

You had me looking that up. Would that have been the Eppleton Hall?

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In article <pan$910d2$e4b50469$258960b2$[email protected]>,
Charles Packer <[email protected]> wrote:

On Thu, 1 Aug 2024 20:58:10 -0000 (UTC), James Nicoll wrote:

In article <v8ghsp$28gvp$[email protected]>, BCFD 36 <[email protected]>
wrote:

On 8/1/24 06:15, James Nicoll wrote:

Fevre Dream by George R R Martin

Steamboat entrepreneur Abner Marsh is rescued from financial disaster
by a mysterious benefactor who is curiously averse to direct sunlight. >>>>
https://jamesdavisnicoll.com/review/got-the-fever

I listened to Fevre Dream whilst doing my organlegger job. Lots of hours >>>stack up between Boulder Creek and Sacramento via San Francisco Airport >>>and then home or Boulder Creek, to the airport, to UCSF Hospital and >>>back. I thoroughly enjoyed it. If his info on riverboats was correct >>>(adding fat to the firebox to increase heat, etc.), I learned a bit
about them in the process.

Pity my grandfather is dead. He was a font of knowledge about ship steam
engines. Engineer on the last paddlewheeler across the Atlantic.

You had me looking that up. Would that have been the Eppleton Hall?

It would!
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In article <v8il1c$3cq$[email protected]>,
James Nicoll <[email protected]> wrote:

In article <pan$910d2$e4b50469$258960b2$[email protected]>,
Charles Packer <[email protected]> wrote:

On Thu, 1 Aug 2024 20:58:10 -0000 (UTC), James Nicoll wrote:

In article <v8ghsp$28gvp$[email protected]>, BCFD 36 <[email protected]>
wrote:

On 8/1/24 06:15, James Nicoll wrote:

Fevre Dream by George R R Martin

Steamboat entrepreneur Abner Marsh is rescued from financial disaster >>>>> by a mysterious benefactor who is curiously averse to direct sunlight. >>>>>
https://jamesdavisnicoll.com/review/got-the-fever

I listened to Fevre Dream whilst doing my organlegger job. Lots of hours >>>>stack up between Boulder Creek and Sacramento via San Francisco Airport >>>>and then home or Boulder Creek, to the airport, to UCSF Hospital and >>>>back. I thoroughly enjoyed it. If his info on riverboats was correct >>>>(adding fat to the firebox to increase heat, etc.), I learned a bit >>>>about them in the process.

Pity my grandfather is dead. He was a font of knowledge about ship steam >>> engines. Engineer on the last paddlewheeler across the Atlantic.

You had me looking that up. Would that have been the Eppleton Hall?

It would!

I reviewed Newhall's book on the adventure:

https://jamesdavisnicoll.com/review/the-tyne-tug-caper

For some reason, my grandfather Scott* attracted counter-
intuitive descriptions. "Scottish", and "Edwardian", even
though he was raised in Hawaii, and the Edwardian era was
a small part of his long life. Plus, since he was American,
why use a British period? Meanwhile, over in the folk music
scene, there is this line:

"Scott turned the pages of his book and said in accents raw,"

He sound pretty bog-standard American to me.

https://www.malvinareynolds.com/mr147.htm

* Yes, he was a ship's engineer nick-named Scotty.
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[email protected] (James Nicoll) writes:

In article <v8ghsp$28gvp$[email protected]>, BCFD 36 <[email protected]> wrote: >>On 8/1/24 06:15, James Nicoll wrote:

Fevre Dream by George R R Martin

Steamboat entrepreneur Abner Marsh is rescued from financial disaster
by a mysterious benefactor who is curiously averse to direct sunlight.

https://jamesdavisnicoll.com/review/got-the-fever

I listened to Fevre Dream whilst doing my organlegger job. Lots of hours >>stack up between Boulder Creek and Sacramento via San Francisco Airport
and then home or Boulder Creek, to the airport, to UCSF Hospital and
back. I thoroughly enjoyed it. If his info on riverboats was correct >>(adding fat to the firebox to increase heat, etc.), I learned a bit
about them in the process.

Pity my grandfather is dead. He was a font of knowledge about ship
steam engines. Engineer on the last paddlewheeler across the Atlantic.

If you can find a copy of the Audel's _Engineers and Mechanics Guide_,
it has a wealth of information about steam engines.

Here's volume 1:

https://archive.org/details/audelsengineersm01grahrich/page/n5/mode/2up

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In article <v8g1pr$2lo$[email protected]>,
James Nicoll <[email protected]> wrote:

Fevre Dream by George R R Martin

Steamboat entrepreneur Abner Marsh is rescued from financial disaster
by a mysterious benefactor who is curiously averse to direct sunlight.

My interest in vampire stories is very strongly negative,
and what GRRM I've read (other than Tuff Voyaging) has very
strongly put me off ... but Cynthia McQuillian's utterly
marvelous song about Fevre Dream has almost (but not quite)
influenced me to give GRRM another shot at my mind.

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