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  • (Special Request) Cold Comfort Farm by Stella Gibbons

    From James Nicoll@21:1/5 to All on Thu Feb 6 13:57:33 2025
    old Comfort Farm (Cold Comfort Farm, volume 1) by Stella Gibbons

    A young orphan guilts an invitation out of rustic relatives, whose
    lives she swiftly improves.

    This is science fiction, although the movie based on this novel is
    not.

    https://jamesdavisnicoll.com/review/no-butter-in-hell
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  • From James Nicoll@21:1/5 to James Nicoll on Thu Feb 6 14:26:00 2025
    In article <vo2f4d$i57$[email protected]>,
    James Nicoll <[email protected]> wrote:
    old Comfort Farm (Cold Comfort Farm, volume 1) by Stella Gibbons

    A young orphan guilts an invitation out of rustic relatives, whose
    lives she swiftly improves.

    This is science fiction, although the movie based on this novel is
    not.

    https://jamesdavisnicoll.com/review/no-butter-in-hell

    I also reviewed the movie but it's not SF.
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    My reviews can be found at http://jamesdavisnicoll.com/
    My tor pieces at https://www.tor.com/author/james-davis-nicoll/
    My Dreamwidth at https://james-davis-nicoll.dreamwidth.org/
    My patreon is at https://www.patreon.com/jamesdnicoll

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  • From James Nicoll@21:1/5 to [email protected] on Thu Feb 6 20:13:28 2025
    In article <vo33jg$33gdp$[email protected]>,
    Cryptoengineer <[email protected]> wrote:
    On 2/6/2025 8:57 AM, James Nicoll wrote:
    old Comfort Farm (Cold Comfort Farm, volume 1) by Stella Gibbons

    A young orphan guilts an invitation out of rustic relatives, whose
    lives she swiftly improves.

    This is science fiction, although the movie based on this novel is
    not.

    https://jamesdavisnicoll.com/review/no-butter-in-hell

    The text under Ned Stark's image is utterly unreadable on my
    22 inch screen.

    That better?

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    My reviews can be found at http://jamesdavisnicoll.com/
    My tor pieces at https://www.tor.com/author/james-davis-nicoll/
    My Dreamwidth at https://james-davis-nicoll.dreamwidth.org/
    My patreon is at https://www.patreon.com/jamesdnicoll

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