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- From: mccolm@darwin.math.usf.edu. (Gregory McColm)
- Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.misc
- Subject: Re: help me ID this story
- Message-ID: <1992Nov7.223642.21897@ariel.ec.usf.edu>
- Date: 7 Nov 92 22:36:42 GMT
- References: <1992Oct30.022937.10163@ccu.umanitoba.ca> <BwxtDt.ILs@andy.bgsu.edu>
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- Organization: Univ. of South Florida, Math Department
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- In article <BwxtDt.ILs@andy.bgsu.edu> pfrazie@andy.bgsu.edu (Paul M. Frazier) writes:
- >evorst@ccu.umanitoba.ca (Ed Vorst) writes:
- >
- >
- >> I have here a plot to a sf story but I don't know the title or the
- >>author. Hopefully all you super-sf-buffs can help out a new-comer like me.
- >>Any help would be greatly appreciated.
- >> Here goes: A somnelent kleptomaniac is stealing platinum objects and
- >>hiding them in an old purse. The purse never fills up, the objects
- >>disappear. A team of psychologists rig a huge crane and start a
- >>cross-dimensional tug-of-war. The story ends with the crane, the lab, the
- >>room and the building beginning to lose the tug-of-war with whatever is on
- >>the other side. The scientists cannot disengage.
- >>Please leave a message ASAP. My email is: evorst@ccu.umanitoba.ca
- >
- >Please post the name and author of this story. I'd like to read it!
- >
- >Paul
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- This sounds like TIGER BY THE TAIL, by Alan E Nourse, but
- I don't recall the kleptomaniac being so particular about
- what kind of metal her loot was made of.
-
- -----Greg McColm
-