> On Jul 4, 5:21 pm, "D.F. Manno" <dfma...@mail.com> wrote:
>> In article <s25t64ldn61n6j43vmtn5kprt5gjabe...@4ax.com>,
>> Rich Horton <rrhor...@prodigy.net> wrote:
>>> Rebecca Rice <philosphe...@sbcglobal.net> wrote:

>>>> Seeing how it's a holiday, I thought I would see if people
>>>> would like to play a game.  Lo these many years ago, when I
>>>> was in high school, a friend and I would refer to books by
>>>> altered titles.  The rules were simple:  change one word to
>>>> a synonym in one definition, that totally changes the
>>>> meaning of the title.

>>>> However, the only one I can remember off-hand is:

>>>> The Power That Preserves -> The Power That Jams.

>>>> I know we had several others, and I figured this well-read,
>>>> erudite group can come up with some new ones.

>>> Tolkien's novel about a gossip, Lord of the Phone Calls

>>> Asimov's baseball novel, Second Base

>>> Le Guin's horror novel, The Sinister Darkness (OK, that one's a
>>> stretch)

>> Clarke's Indian romance novel, "Date with Rama."

> Fairly trivial ones come to mind: "The Clock Machine" by Wells, and
> "At the Mountains of Anger" by Lovecraft, Alfred Bester's "The Station
> Man", Edgar Rice Burroughs' "Thuvia, Domestic of Mars"... or even
> Philip Jose Farmer's novel of the joys of obtaining protein, "Meat".

> Stretching things a bit, John Brunner's war novel "Stand active,
> Zanzibar!".

> Arthur C. Clarke's melancholy "Against the Autumn of Night"? Isaac
> Asimov's "Twilight", and John W. Campbell's "Nightfall"?

> Ah, finally something slightly better... Cyril Kornbluth and Frederic
> Pohl's "The Room Merchants", a sordid tale of apartment hunting in New
> York.