I'm going nuts trying to remember who wrote a story I read long ago that was based on the technological premise that someone had invented a wire that was stronger than steel yet so thin that it was essentially invisible....

One result was that if you strung it across a path and someone was chasing you they would walk right through it and be sliced in half before they knew it...

Rather gruesome....perhaps too gruesome to be a Bradbury premise?

Does anyone know if this was in a Bradbury story, or who wrote this, Bradbury or otherwise?

thanks very much for your collective wisdom.

mike

Not by Bradbury. You can try asking here: http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=en&lr=&ie=ISO-8859-1&q=rec.arts.sf.written&btnG=Search&meta=

and here: http://forums.abebooks.com/abesleuthcom

Oh, I came into this one 'cuz I thought it said WINE so thin and strong it can cut you in half, and I was like OOH! Where can I find said wine!?

Obviously, groon, it would have to be dandelion wine!

Ha! Oh, great comeback, even I didn't see that one coming!