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From: swb@lasspvax.UUCP (Scott Brim)
Newsgroups: net.sf-lovers
Subject: what is The Stump really?
Message-ID: <520@lasspvax.UUCP>
Date: Sun, 15-Sep-85 10:44:28 EDT
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Posted: Sun Sep 15 10:44:28 1985
Date-Received: Tue, 17-Sep-85 04:58:57 EDT
Reply-To: swb@lasspvax.UUCP (Scott Brim)
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In "Dream Dancer" by Janet Morris, the first space platform
built above the Earth (about a thousand years before the events in the
book) is called "The Stump."  The origin of the name is "lost in
antiquity".  This smacks of an idea that has a basis in reality.  Is
this a nickname for the current space station project?  Did it perhaps
come from another book?
.....Scott Brim