Comments on: Not your typical ghost town http://www.mentalfloss.com/blogs/archives/4563 Feel Smart Again Sun, 22 Nov 2009 09:01:57 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.5 hourly 1 By: Marco McClean http://www.mentalfloss.com/blogs/archives/4563/comment-page-1#comment-8945 Marco McClean Fri, 09 Mar 2007 05:14:32 +0000 http://www.mentalfloss.com/blogs/archives/4563#comment-8945 /Mechasm/ by John Sladek (UK title: /The Reproductive System/) is a delightful science-fiction book set in Rhyolite, Nevada. It turns out that robots need the mineral rhyolite to reproduce themselves, so they converge on the town. The (human) hero of the story is the editor of the town paper, who makes sense of his life by internally narrating everything that happens to him, including his wife leaving him, in headline format. The robots eventually fix rocket engines to the Eiffel Tower and blast it into space. In the middle 1960s when John Sladek wrote the book, there might have been enough people still living there to support a weekly newspaper. I like to think so, anyway. /Mechasm/ by John Sladek (UK title: /The Reproductive System/) is a delightful science-fiction book set in Rhyolite, Nevada. It turns out that robots need the mineral rhyolite to reproduce themselves, so they converge on the town. The (human) hero of the story is the editor of the town paper, who makes sense of his life by internally narrating everything that happens to him, including his wife leaving him, in headline format. The robots eventually fix rocket engines to the Eiffel Tower and blast it into space. In the middle 1960s when John Sladek wrote the book, there might have been enough people still living there to support a weekly newspaper. I like to think so, anyway.

]]> By: kellie http://www.mentalfloss.com/blogs/archives/4563/comment-page-1#comment-8928 kellie Thu, 08 Mar 2007 21:43:40 +0000 http://www.mentalfloss.com/blogs/archives/4563#comment-8928 There is another ghost town on the way home to Cali from Las Vegas, and it also has a glass house. (Several, if I recall.) it is calicotown dot com There is another ghost town on the way home to Cali from Las Vegas, and it also has a glass house. (Several, if I recall.)

it is calicotown dot com

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