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- From: stevena@cory.Berkeley.EDU (Steven Alexander)
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- Subject: Re: "Through a Glass, Darkly" reference sought
- Message-ID: <1992Jul27.005415.9909@pasteur.Berkeley.EDU>
- Date: 27 Jul 92 00:54:15 GMT
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- In article <28cp02PR19uz01@JUTS.ccc.amdahl.com> I wrote:
- >Would someone be kind enough to tell me who wrote a short story
- >with the title "Through a Glass, Darkly"? It must be at least
- >15 years old. Also, any reference to a collection where I would
- >find it would be further appreciated.
-
- Several people were kind enough to try helping out. Although
- the best recollections out there were that it was by Asimov or
- Dick, it turns out to be Zenna Henderson, "Through a Glass -
- Darkly" in _Fantasy_and_Science_Fiction_, October 1970. It
- is most recently collected in _A_Treasury_of_Modern_Fantasy_,
- Terry Carr and Martin Harry Greenberg, eds. Avon, 1981.
-
- Unfortunately for me, this is not the story I remembered.
-
- The story I'm really looking for concerned "slow glass" which
- transmits light many orders of magnitude more slowly that ordinary
- glass (but emerges at the ordinary rate). Thus, it could be
- placed in a scenic place for a while, then rented out as a pseudo
- scenic window, providing realistic -- or real -- views. This
- glass, or access to the scenic places, comes to be sold for dear
- prices to the poor, who at first got to enjoy their cramped flats
- more than before the discovery or invention of slow glass.
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- Steven Alexander
- Comp Sci grad student stevena@cs.berkeley.edu
- & non-practicing lawyer extraordinaire
- {I'm really wonderful at not practicing}
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