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Posted by mr_porteiro_head (Member # 4644) on :

Yeah, I know, we've had a lot of these lately. And now we have one of mine.

Here's what I think I recall from the story:

It's somewhat post-apocalyptic, and the guy contacts an old girlfriend or friend. She's hooked up with this ultra-fundie religious group which is trying to breed a red heifer without blemish, but they're not careful, and they end up spreading and catching the big bad apocalyptic plague from the cows. The guy goes out there to fetch the girl, and there's some sort of stand off with the people who run the place.

Posted by MEC (Member # 2968) on :

Sound's interesting, I'll have to check that out once someone names it.

Posted by rivka (Member # 4859) on :

No idea, but you could try this GoodReads group.

Posted by ketchupqueen (Member # 6877) on :

Didn't find it, but a search on amazon for "red heifer" in fiction yielded some really interesting results.

Posted by Carrie (Member # 394) on :

quote:
Originally posted by ketchupqueen:
Didn't find it, but a search on amazon for "red heifer" in fiction yielded some really interesting results.

So did the Google search. [Smile]

Posted by MEC (Member # 2968) on :

Jewish customs I assume?

Posted by Sharpie (Member # 482) on :

Your description sort of makes me think of Spin by Robert (Charles?) Wilson, but that's a novel and not a story. I read it when I had the hell flu, so I may be remembering not so well.

Maybe I should reread it without flu. I enjoyed it at the time, but in a haze.

Posted by Stephan (Member # 7549) on :

quote:
Originally posted by Sharpie:
Your description sort of makes me think of Spin by Robert (Charles?) Wilson, but that's a novel and not a story. I read it when I had the hell flu, so I may be remembering not so well.

Maybe I should reread it without flu. I enjoyed it at the time, but in a haze.

Spin was a great read. Its sequel Axis though, not nearly as good.

Posted by mr_porteiro_head (Member # 4644) on :

quote:
Originally posted by Sharpie:
Your description sort of makes me think of Spin by Robert (Charles?) Wilson, but that's a novel and not a story. I read it when I had the hell flu, so I may be remembering not so well.

I think that's it, as I know that I read Spin during the time that I read the red heifer story. Also, in the Venn diagram of my idiolect, "novel" is a subset of "story". [Smile]

Thanks!

(And yeah, that was a fabulous book.)

Posted by ketchupqueen (Member # 6877) on :

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Originally posted by MEC:
Jewish customs I assume?

Actually mostly end-of-the-world type stuff (on Amazon), some of it sci-fi, and a mystery or two in interesting settings.