Flin Flon, Manitoba... What? - Page 3

vid · #41 Posted **Jan 27, 2007, 8:09 PM**

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Originally Posted by flatlander

I didn't think it was so much a permafrost issue as the fact that its built on a rock. It is quite interesting to see.

A rock? :O Didn't they have a nice, flat swamp to build on, like Thunder Bay?

Our sewer system is sinking into the core of the earth at a rate of three millimeters a year!!

Andy6 · #42 Posted **Jan 27, 2007, 8:26 PM**

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Originally Posted by freeweed

The vignette in question, or at least the one I remember, described how the town was named after one Flintabbatey Flonatin (bet I spelled that wrong!), a character in an old science fiction novel. It's one of a very few places named after a science fiction character.
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It was a dime store novel called The Sunless City by the Victorian pulp novelist J.E. Preston Muddock. The story is briefly recounted here. Only one copy of The Sunless City shows up on bookfinder.com and it is a bound photostatic reprint published by the Flin Flon library (at over $200).Link.

Shodan · #43 Posted **Jan 27, 2007, 9:17 PM**

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Originally Posted by Andy6

It was a dime store novel called The Sunless City by the Victorian pulp novelist J.E. Preston Muddock. The story is briefly recounted here. Only one copy of The Sunless City shows up on bookfinder.com and it is a bound photostatic reprint published by the Flin Flon library (at over $200).Link.