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[james-nicoll.livejournal.com]

I was going to say you might have heard of his Venus Prime collaborations with Arthur C. Clarke but aaaaactually the book you're most likely to have encountered (as a movie) is The Core.

[michaelgr.livejournal.com]

I read Core back when, but for some reason all I remembered of the plot was that it featured an antagonist in the form of none other than dear old Saddam Hussein, who hatches a plot to use a deep diagonal borehole and an H-bomb to trigger earthquakes and wipe out Israel, so I never made the connection to the movie. Preuss doesn't even have a story credit on IMDB for the film - I wonder if it's really based on his novel at all.