(Big Hair Big Guns!) Fevre Dream by George R R Martin

[James Nicoll]

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

[Tony Nance]

Post by James Nicoll
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

Oh, I greatly enjoyed Fevre Dream - thanks for this wonderful review.

Your experience with the dog on the balcony reminds me of my experience
reading Stephen King's Pet Sematary in a deserted dormitory.

Tony

[BCFD 36]

Post by James Nicoll
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.

[James Nicoll]

Post by BCFD 36

Post by James Nicoll
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.

[Charles Packer]

Post by BCFD 36

Post by James Nicoll
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?

[James Nicoll]

Post by Charles Packer

Post by BCFD 36

Post by James Nicoll
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!

[James Nicoll]

Post by James Nicoll

Post by Charles Packer

Post by BCFD 36

Post by James Nicoll
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.

[Scott Lurndal]

Post by James Nicoll

Post by BCFD 36

Post by James Nicoll
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

[Mike Van Pelt]

Post by James Nicoll
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.