From:	Brian Rogers <rogers@****.UIUC.EDU>
Subject:	Re: I'm starting for sure now...
Date:	Tue, 8 Nov 1994 11:54:37 -0600

> I don't know for sure what details we need.
>
> Ideas:
>
> WHERE exactly in Chicago all this took place. Street names, etc.

Power plant at Cermac and racine is where the final hit happens. That is
where the nuke goes off.

>
> How many were killed, and by what.

About a bus load is killed, at the final, when the insect's ward traps them
inside with the explosion

>
> What important people were killed.

This is left as an excercise for the reader. No one specifically was named.

>
> Anything else that might be relevant...

Chicago goes under martial law because everyone was afraid fo contaminatin
of the rest of the world (cont. US) and there was no way that the sec guards
could tell who was insectoid and who wasnt. The fact that they [the insects]
could fly over the police lines didnt really come up in the book.

There were other places hit during the author's telling of the story. I can
scan for those if you need them for color.
>
> --
> Tim Skirvin (tskirvin@***.uiuc.edu)