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- From: svleest@brahms.crhc.uiuc.edu (Steve VanderLeest)
- Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.misc
- Subject: Re: help me ID this story
- Date: 12 Nov 1992 00:32:24 GMT
- Organization: Center for Reliable and High-Performance Computing, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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- References: <1992Oct30.022937.10163@ccu.umanitoba.ca> <BwxtDt.ILs@andy.bgsu.edu> <1992Nov7.223642.21897@ariel.ec.usf.edu>
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- In article <1992Nov7.223642.21897@ariel.ec.usf.edu>, mccolm@darwin.math.usf.edu. (Gregory McColm) writes:
- |> 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
- |>
- |> 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
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- Yes, this is the correct title -- and yes she did go after only one kind of
- metal, but I believe it was aluminum, not plantinum.
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