I don't think the geography is more like hell than any atmospheric warming, post nuclear war society would be, but I agree with the hansel and gretel resonance... Wolfe has echoed that tale in at least two other short stories ("in the house of gingerbread" and I think "the little stranger") but those ones had witches. This one only has the oven itself. <br>
<br>On Thursday, July 17, 2014, Jeffery Wilson <a href="http://clueland.com">clueland.com</a> <<a href="mailto:jwilson@clueland.com">jwilson@clueland.com</a>> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
On 7/17/2014 11:45 AM, Marc Aramini wrote:<br>
> weather satellites still in the air<br>
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Unless you mean literally in the atmosphere, there's no particular reason they would stop orbiting; they might not *work* after a century of solar flares, though.<br>
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MYTHIC ALLUSIONS:<br>
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The perpetual heat and vague geography suggests to me they may be in Hell to some degree.<br>
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LITERARY ALLUSIONS:<br>
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We have a Hans and a Gretchen, and a woman killed in a hot oven - is this a coincidence?<br>
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Jeff Wilson - < <a>jwilson@clueland.com</a> ><br>
A&M Texarkana Computational Intelligence Lab<br>
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