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  Lost Science Fiction Story

   • d*****7@***.compostpile
     27/07/2002 06:33:49 UTC

     I'm looking for a science fiction story that my father read around 1985
     - it

     was in a collection of short story science fiction, the book was in
     pretty good

     condition so it couldn't have been too old. He can't rmemeber the title

     exactly, but it might have something like "Hawk" or "Falcon" in the
     title. It

     is a story of this boy who sits on the top of this hill every day,
     dreaming of

     how to perfect copper wire. There's this bird above him that goes and
     catches

     other birds (?), almost like it's a routine game. And the bird is either
     a

     Hawk or a Falcon - something like that.

     In the future, when the boy grows up, he becomes an inventor, and
     perfects

     copper wire to somehow incorporate it into a time machine, in which he
     travels

     back to when he was younger. He wants to tell himself how to make the
     time

     machine earlier.. something along those lines.

     Anyone have any idea what the title of the story is, or where I could
     find out?

     Thanks!

     ~David

     "...whenever I succeed in disproving another person's claim to wisdom in
     a

     given subject, the bystanders assume that I know everything about that
     subject

     myself. But the truth of the matter... that real wisdom is the property
     of

     God..." ~Socrates

       • j*******i@i*.******m.com
         29/07/2002 05:06:40 UTC

         On 27 Jul 2002 06:33:49 GMT, David B.C.

         wrote:

         >I'm looking for a science fiction story that my father read around

         >1985 - it was in a collection of short story science fiction, the

         >book was in pretty good condition so it couldn't have been too old.

         >He can't rmemeber the title exactly, but it might have something
         like

         >"Hawk" or "Falcon" in the title. It is a story of this boy who sits

         >on the top of this hill every day, dreaming of how to perfect
         copper

         >wire. There's this bird above him that goes and catches other birds

         >(?), almost like it's a routine game. And the bird is either a Hawk

         >or a Falcon - something like that.

         >In the future, when the boy grows up, he becomes an inventor, and

         >perfects copper wire to somehow incorporate it into a time machine,

         >in which he travels back to when he was younger. He wants to tell

         >himself how to make the time machine earlier.. something along
         those

         >lines.

         >Anyone have any idea what the title of the story is, or where I
         could

         >find out?

         "Rainbird" by R. A. Lafferty (1914--2000)