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Robert Carnegie  
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  More options Jul 7 2008, 5:04 pm
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From: Robert Carnegie <rja.carne...@excite.com>
Date: Mon, 7 Jul 2008 05:04:22 -0700 (PDT)
Local: Mon, Jul 7 2008 5:04 pm
Subject: Re: Changing titles
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On Jul 4, 10:09 pm, 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.

If I can (like others) change more than one word, please accept _The
Sea Monster Funerals_.  But also either _Quatermass and the Cherry-
stone_ or _Quatermass and the Orchestra Stalls_.  (Was that a book?
Never mind.)

_No Adolescent Consumed Mind-altering Small French Biscuit_.

Don't forget Asimov went on to _Moment Cellars_.  (And when he was
still good.  Arguably.)

Maybe we could have another game, actual SF titles that /sound/ as
though they've been through that process, and possiibly have.  For
instance I am reading _The Year of Intelligent Tigers_, although I
don't really see what the original "was".  (There's a planet where
human colonists find packs of tigers living around.  They're fairly
tame animals.  Then a bunch of the tigers announce themselves as
intelligent.)  And I lately looked into _Chasm City_.  Couldn't do
anything with that.


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