[Bouncing to the list, since I can't answer a question for Steve :-) ] > > I thought this was amusing: > > There's a trick I like to pull on my friends. Standing in a large > city on an overcast night, I'll ask them to look down at the > sidewalk and tell me what color the sky is. They invariably will > say black or, sometimes, dark blue. Look up, I'll say. And to > their astonishment the sky is neither black nor blue, but a dull, > smoky red - reflecting the orange glow of all those sodium and > mercury vapor streetlights. For years, the winter nights in Boston have reminded me of the Overcast. Hey Steve, was it actually based on/inspired by this real-world phenomenon, or is the similarity just coincidence? > Cut from an essay about SF & the future by Michael Swanwick: > > http://www.michaelswanwick.com/nonfic/future.html Cool essay! Thanks for the link. Alexx Alexx Kay Opinions expressed are my own and not necessarily those of my employers alexx at world.std.com http://world.std.com/~alexx "Basically, he said he felt that I was being, historically speaking, a little unfair and unnecessarily harsh in my portrayal of Queen Victoria and that reality flew out of the window whenever Fat Vicky made an appearance. For my part I was surprised, since I thought reality had flown out of the window with the giant three-headed goat-god in chapter two." -- Alan Moore in correspondence with Dave Sim about _From Hell_