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Re: help!

From: Ron Miller <rmiller~at~crosslink.net>
Date: Sat, 2 Nov 1996 09:54:35 +0000
To: jvf~at~math.technion.ac.il

> Date: Sat, 2 Nov 1996 04:09:14 +0200
> Reply-to: jvf~at~math.technion.ac.il
> From: "Janet Monroe (CAS)" <jmonroe~at~luna.cas.usf.edu>
> To: Multiple recipients of list <jvf~at~math.technion.ac.il>
> Subject: Re: help!

> Hi,
>
> I know that the movie blade runner was from a short story but I didn't
> know the title.
>
> By the way even though I read Verne, I had never heard of "Blockade
> Runner."
> The Blockade Runners that I know about are the Southern
> Profitters in the civil war.
> Should I mention that I have had a bad week?
>
> Jan
> jmonroe~at~luna.cas.usf.edu
>
>
>
> On Fri, 1 Nov 1996 RHicks12~at~aol.com wrote:
>
> > Jan,
> >
> > Thanks...but I said "Blockade Runner" <grin>! A Jules Verne book....but I
> > have to admit that "Blade Runner" the Harrison Ford film was quite
> > enjoyable....did you know it was taken from a short story called "Do androids
> > dream of electric sheep?" I believe it was written by Phillip Dick? Bob.
> >
>

"Blockade Runner" was a short novel that was published with "The
Floating City". Taking place during the American Civil War, it tells
the melodramatic story of a British ship running the Union blockade
to take supplies to the South.

Ron MILLER
Received on Sat 02 Nov 1996 - 16:55:26 IST

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