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FROM: "Liberty Municipal Library" <[removed]@imsday.com>
REC'D: 5/9/01, 6:55 PM

Patron had a Eureka! moment and remembered the name of the book.

Thanks anyway.
Jennifer Brock

FROM: [removed]@aol.com
REC'D: 5/9/01, 6:55 PM

In a message dated 5/9/2001 2:58:20 PM Eastern Daylight Time, [removed]@imsday.com
writes:

<<
Patron had a Eureka! moment and remembered the name of the book.

Thanks anyway.
Jennifer Brock
>>

Don't let us hang there - what was the name of the post-apocalpytic book?

Binnie Syril Braunstein
romance novelist/former libarian

FROM: "Liberty Municipal Library" <[removed]@imsday.com>
REC'D: 5/9/01, 6:55 PM

I have a patron who wants to find a book, but remembers very few details.
The book is post-apocalyptic scienc fiction. There is a "hollowed out
mountain" and some sort of disease or plague which causes people to grow a
mask that covers the face and when it falls off, "the true face is
revealed." Patron said it remined him of Stephen King's the Stand and he
thinks that "Dawn" or "Swan" might be in the title. There is a character
who is a wrestler and another named "Sister" who is from New York. I'm
sorry that I cannot give more details. I thought that if anyone was
familiar with this book, it would be the fiction geniuses as FicL.

Thank you,
Jennifer Brock

FROM: Erin Saylor - LIBRARYX <[removed]@mail.maricopa.gov>
REC'D: 5/9/01, 6:55 PM

This sounds like _Swan Song_ by Robert R. McCammon.

Erin B. Saylor

Adult Services Librarian
North Central Regional Branch
Maricopa County Library System
17811 N. 32nd St.
Phoenix, AZ 85032
(602)506-0189


-----Original Message-----
From: Liberty Municipal Library [[removed]@imsday.com]
Sent: Wednesday, May 09, 2001 11:52 AM
To: Fiction_L
Subject: Science fiction help


I have a patron who wants to find a book, but remembers very few details.
The book is post-apocalyptic scienc fiction. There is a "hollowed out
mountain" and some sort of disease or plague which causes people to grow a
mask that covers the face and when it falls off, "the true face is
revealed." Patron said it remined him of Stephen King's the Stand and he
thinks that "Dawn" or "Swan" might be in the title. There is a character
who is a wrestler and another named "Sister" who is from New York. I'm
sorry that I cannot give more details. I thought that if anyone was
familiar with this book, it would be the fiction geniuses as FicL.

Thank you,
Jennifer Brock

FROM: Jen Stelling <[removed]@nylink.suny.edu>
REC'D: 5/9/01, 6:55 PM

Actually,
it sounds like Greg Bear's Darwin's Radio. This novel is about a radical
evolution in human DNA; a plague causes some very strange pregnancy
problems, and the skin mask you describe is just one of the evolutionary
changes...the hollowed out mountain housed a post-neanderthal family whose
mummies eventually help solve this plague. (Sorry, I just read this a few
weeks ago!)
HTH
Jen Stelling
Nylink
Albany NY

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Liberty Municipal Library [[removed]@imsday.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, May 09, 2001 2:52 PM
> To: Fiction_L
> Subject: Science fiction help
>
> I have a patron who wants to find a book, but remembers very few details.
> The book is post-apocalyptic scienc fiction. There is a "hollowed out
> mountain" and some sort of disease or plague which causes people to grow a
> mask that covers the face and when it falls off, "the true face is
> revealed." Patron said it remined him of Stephen King's the Stand and he
> thinks that "Dawn" or "Swan" might be in the title. There is a character
> who is a wrestler and another named "Sister" who is from New York. I'm
> sorry that I cannot give more details. I thought that if anyone was
> familiar with this book, it would be the fiction geniuses as FicL.
>
> Thank you,
> Jennifer Brock
>
>
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