Re: Historical novel set on r.a.b.

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Meg Worley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 
>> Antediluvian hacker slang for "group" -- see the Jargon File:
> 
> If it's antediluvian, when was the flood? (I've been waiting for a
> rain to wash diluvian into a sentence, so far we've only had high winds,
> of which no word blows into mind).

   I'm currently reading _The Rainy Season_ by James P. Blaylock. It's
set in "rural Orange County" (is there such a thing any more) where 
dead souls haunt the water tables, and when it rains a lot, rise to
the surface with the water level.  Blaylock is great, and I love the
rain, so it's a double pleasure to read the novels which are soaking
wet.  _All The Bells Of Earth_ is another, this one set in the town
of Orange, California.  A preacher is approached by a fellow who wants
to sell his soul to the devil.  Preacher man thinks he's a crazy man,
but takes his money to help the church out.  Turns out it's not such
a scan after all.

   veg