[meteorite-list] QUESTION RE METEORITES AND POP CULTURE

From: Matthias Bärmann <majbaermann_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Sat, 13 Mar 2010 00:29:03 +0100
Message-ID: <5F6E4CFBC5FE46328976BD5916740B83_at_thinkcentre>

What about Peter Hoeg's 'Miss Smilla's Feeling for Snow' ...

Amazon's synopsis reads: "One snowy day in Copenhagen, six-year-old Isaiah
falls to his death from a city rooftop. The police pronounce it an accident.
But Isaiah's neighbour, Smilla, suspects murder. She embarks on a dangerous
quest to find the truth, following a path of clues as clear to her as
footsteps in the snow."

The traces lead Smilla finally to Greenland, a hidden cave situated in the
dephts of the eternal ice, and ...


----- Original Message -----
From: "Alan Rubin" <aerubin at ucla.edu>
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Sent: Friday, March 12, 2010 11:12 PM
Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] QUESTION RE METEORITES AND POP CULTURE


> If we go back a bit (and as I pointed out in Disturbing the Solar System),
> there is H. P. Lovecraft's 1927 horror story, The Colour out of Space,
> wherein sinister space seeds within an iron meteorite poison the plants,
> animals and people living on the farm where the meteorite fell.
>
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