Re: Weekly Vocab 30 in Kash

In a message dated 11/24/2003 5:42:58 PM Eastern Standard Time,
romilly@EGL.NET writes:


>Hmm-- now I'm recalling a SF novel of some 20 yrs ago that involved some
>spacefarers in a far prehistoric period.  They were responsible, among other
>things, for the destruction of the land bridge across the Straits of
>Gibraltar and the formation of the modern
>Mediterranean. The author gave them a definite Celtic cast-- in fact their
>"national song" (which was printed in an appendix) sounded suspiciously like
>that old favorite "Danny Boy".  That, I thought, was carrying things a bit
>far..........

That would be _The Many-Colored Land_ (and its sequels) by Julian May (just
in case you wanted to know.

Doug

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