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From: jcmorris@mwunix.mitre.org (Joe Morris)
Subject: Re: Robert Jordan's "Shadow Rising"
Organization: The MITRE Corporation
Date: Wed, 30 Sep 1992 16:24:54 GMT

kennethm@cc.gatech.edu (Kenneth Moorman) writes:

>                                                  I just checked a local
>B. Daltons and a local Waldens and neither had Shadow Rising.  
>Both said check back late next month.   BUT, others have posted they've picked
>it up.   Do book release dates meander cross country?

The local WaldenBooks has it on the shelves as of last Monday (9/28).  Other
local bookstores don't have it out; one suggested that Waldenbooks had 
ignored the publisher's release date restriction.  (And no, I don't know
if there was supposed to be such a restriction.)

Joe Morris / MITRE
Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.written
From: blum@news.ils.nwu.edu (Daniel Blum)
Subject: Re: Books I Love to Hate (e.g., Orbital Resonance)
Organization: The Institute for the Learning Sciences
X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL5
Date: Fri, 2 Oct 1992 00:26:46 GMT

>To me, _Podkayne_ was a very heavy-handed sermon on the evils of
>uppity girls aspiring to anything more than traditional female roles.
>In the published version, the main character recognized the errors of
>her ways and (presumably) lived happily every after by producing
>babies; in the original version, she comes to a Bad End because of her
>misbehavior.  I, at least, don't see either of those as much better
>than the other.

>--
>Matthew Austern                   Just keep yelling until you attract a
>(510) 644-2618                    crowd, then a constituency, a movement, a
>austern@lbl.bitnet                faction, an army!  If you don't have any
>matt@physics.berkeley.edu         solutions, become a part of the problem!

Which published version are you talking about?  In the one _I_ read,
you don't know what happens to her at the end - she's still in a coma.

--
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Dan Blum           Institute for the Learning Sciences   Room 327
blum@ils.nwu.edu   1890 Maple Ave., Evanston, IL 60201   708-491-3207

"By the power vested in me by my own over-inflated ego, I now 
 declare this bridge officially open."
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Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.written
From: potter@csusac.ecs.csus.edu (Carl Kolchak)
Subject: Simak/Werewolf Principle/Song Of Lycannos
Followup-To: .alt.dev.null
Summary: mind-swapping aliens, werewolves.....
Keywords: pink, "PROJECT FISH-HOOK," psi, witches, werewolves....
Organization: INS, Inc.
Distribution: usa
Date: Tue, 29 Sep 92 04:43:06 GMT


The best Simak story about mind-swapping was "THE FISHERMAN" when it 
was serialized in "ASTOUNDING" in '59 or '60.   (I can't remember 
the year, but I can remember the Van Dongen cover, with the truck 
covered with hex signs....)

It was published in book form as "TIME IS THE SIMPLEST THING;"
it's one of his best novels.

The alien, "Pinkness," who swaps mind-copies with the hero,
uses the phrase "I trade with you my mind."

It's kind of an interstellar handshake, swapping a copy of
everything you know for a copy of everything someone else knows.

If you haven't read it, it's right up there with "GOBLIN RESERVATION"
and "WAY STATION...." some of the best stuff in the history of SF.

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Changing into a werewolf sounds more like "THE WEREWOLF PRINCIPLE" 
to me.   (Same author, of course.)

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"SONG OF LYCANNOS" is a very rare Simak, since it was only 
published as a sort of chap-book for a major SF convention
in the fifties.  (Can't remember which one, offhand.)
It's a story about a Terran spaceman who visits a planet
inhabited by people who visited earth once upon a time,
long ago.... they teach him how to turn into a werewolf
or a huge bat, and he goes home and scares the bejeezuss 
out of the people who forced him to go on the expedition,
when all he really wanted to do was stay home and whittle
and watch the autumn leaves turning.  I don't think it's 
much of a spoiler, since if you *haven't* read it, it's 
real unlikely  you're going to encounter a copy, ever.....
It's not even listed in most of the Simak bibliographies
I've seen.

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Well, g'night.  Typing this in made me realize that I 
want to go read "TIME IS THE SIMPLEST THING" again,
and follow it up with my favorite pulp novel of all
time, "TIME AND AGAIN."    If I have time, I may skim 
through "GOBLIN RESERVATION" again while I'm at it.
"G.R." is one of those very few perfect novels you 
can recommend to anyone, even SF tyros, and know they'll
enjoy.  (Gray Morrow did the illustrations when it was
serialized, although they screwed up and gave a couple
of the covers to Jack Gaughan.)


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