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Title:Arcana Caelestia
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Created:Thu Dec 08 1983
Last Modified:Fri Jun 06 1997
Last Successful Update:Fri Jun 06 1997
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1013.0. "Eric Vinicoff's Maiden Flight" by KEPNUT::GRENIER (savoirfare is everywhere) Fri Aug 23 1991 18:46

    "MAIDEN FLIGHT" by Eric Vinicoff was one of the best books I ever
    read. It was about post atomic war life aboard huge blimp like
    cities that circled the world at high altitudes. These cities
    were mans latest means of surviving a world left inhospitable both
    by radiation and maurauding survivors. The story was cast around
    a young female stowaway who kept getting herself in tough perdicaments
    while also being responsible for heroic activities. Vinicoff does well
    in describing the characters emotions and intent and left me itching
    to get to the end. The book was inspirational and left me wanting to
    read more of his work. Unfortunately, I haven't run across any.
    Have you?
    
    Rich
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1013.1RUBY::BOYAJIANThis mind intentionally left blankSat Aug 24 1991 08:3619
    Yes, I have. He's not written any other novels, but he's had *scads*
    of short stories (written alone or with Marcia Martin) published
    over the last 15 or so years, mostly in ANALOG. Many of them are
    set in the same milieu, in which a large part of Europe has formed
    into a single nation called Noreuropa. Most of these involve Noreuropan
    intelligence agents Gunnar Einersson and/or Hans Bergenholm.
    
    I remember being very favorably impressed by the first Vinicoff &
    Martin story I read, "Swiss Movement", in a 1976 issue of ANALOG (if
    memory serves, it was their ANALOG debut). It was a nicely done story
    that reveals why Switzerland has been able to maintain its neutrality
    for centuries despite dreams of empire on the part of many a European
    state.
    
    The only other "book" I've run across is called SPACING DUTCHMAN,
    featuring Gunnar Einersson. It was published by a small press, and
    is really just a novelette published as a saddle-stapled booklet.
    
    --- jerry