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Date: Thu, 23 Jul 1992 08:51:01 -0400 
From: "David M. Bartlett" <db0s+@andrew.cmu.edu>
Subject: Address:  A Change of Hobbit?


Also, does anyone know if "A Change of Hobbit"--a great book store in
California that I did a lot of business with in the 1970's--and if so,
have the address and/or telephone number of the establishment?

Dave B.
aka Sheik Bahba rum Raysen
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From: chuq@Apple.COM (Chuq Von Rospach)
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Subject: Re: Address: A Change of Hobbit?
Date: 23 Jul 92 15:34:19 GMT
Organization: I is a writur

db0s+@andrew.cmu.edu (David M. Bartlett) writes:

>Also, does anyone know if "A Change of Hobbit"--a great book store in
>California that I did a lot of business with in the 1970's--and if so,
>have the address and/or telephone number of the establishment?

Change of Hobbit in Santa Monica is unfortunately no more.

*Other* Change of Hobbit, an unaffiliated store in Berkeley, is alive and 
well. (to keep from starting the inevitable confusion).


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	A real SF writur with stories in ALTERNATE KENNEDYS and THE 
	  FURTHER ADVENTURES OF BATMAN, in better bookstores now!

          Painted emblems of a race, all accurst in days of yore,
       Each from his accustomed place steps into the world once more.
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From: vxv4@po.CWRU.Edu (Virgilio Velasco)
Subject: Science Fiction Book Club
Reply-To: vxv4@po.CWRU.Edu (Virgilio Velasco)
Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH (USA)
Date: Mon, 27 Jul 92 17:58:31 GMT



 	If anyone would like to join the Science Fiction Book Club,
please drop me a note.  They have some incredibly good deals, and I
get two free books for getting someone to join.  :-)

	I certainly don't regret joining SFBC, and I'm sure you won't
either.
 
-- 
Virgilio "Dean" Velasco Jr., grad student & roboticist-in-training, CWRU

"If God does not judge the United States, then He owes |    My boss is a 
 an apology to Sodom and Gomorrah."   - Billy Graham   |  Jewish carpenter.
From: pkeller@sam.math.ethz.ch (Philipp Keller)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.marketplace
Subject: WANTED: WMHB3 by G. Benford
Date: 31 Jul 92 09:54:33 GMT
Organization: Seminar for Applied Mathematics, ETH Zurich.


I was really excited about the books 'What Might Have Been' by 
Gregory Benford.
Unfortunately, my bookstore here in Switzerland didn't manage to
get the 3th book in the series and now they tell me that its out of
print.
If anobody would be willing to part from his book or can get me one
I'd would be very happy. So if someone wants to sell

       'What Might Have Been 3: Alternate Wars'

please send your asking price to me at

       pkeller@sam.math.ethz.ch

Thanks

    Philipp Keller
    Zuerichbergstr. 136
    8044 Zuerich
    Switzerland
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From: sjs@hood.hood.caltech.edu (Stephen Speicher)
Subject: Re: Address: A Change of Hobbit?
Organization: California Institute of Technology, Pasadena
Date: Thu, 23 Jul 1992 17:17:07 GMT

db0s+@andrew.cmu.edu (David M. Bartlett) writes:


>Also, does anyone know if "A Change of Hobbit"--a great book store in
>California that I did a lot of business with in the 1970's--and if so,
>have the address and/or telephone number of the establishment?

If you mean the one in LA then, sadly, it went out of business about a year
or so ago. Dangerous Visions in Sherman Oaks bought a lot of their stock
and, although not quite as extensive as Hobbit, is a good SF store.

Stephen
sjs@hood.hood.caltech.edu
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From: UCPL040@UNLVM.UNL.EDU
Subject: Antinomy -- Spider Robinson
Organization: University of Nebraska
Date: Tue, 28 Jul 92 18:10:01 CST

I managed to find a copy of Spider Robinson's "Antinomy" recently.
The book was remaindered during publication and only a few copies
made it out. It, if I understand correctly, was the last book to
be published by the DEL SF company and is quite rare.
  -- Does anyone know how I might find out just how
     rare it is (i.e.:  1) how many copies were actualy published
     2) is there any sort of monitary value of this book being it's
     a just a paperback) (e.g.: is there a source book I could
     look it up in)?
               skott underwood UCPL040@UNLVM
From: bohrer@mcc.com (Bill Bohrer)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.marketplace
Subject: Re: Hitch Hiker Guide to the Galaxy - BBC series
Date: 31 Jul 92 16:47:08 GMT
Organization: MCC, Austin, TX

In article <Bs8A1F.K5J@watserv1.uwaterloo.ca> asaranga@sunee.uwaterloo.ca (Andrew Sarangan) writes:
>Can anyone tell me how I can get a hold of the BBC's Hithhikers guide to the 
>galaxy sound recordings ?
>

One place that used to sell the audio cassettes is 
SIGNALS 1-800-669-9696

The other mail order compnay I remember is "WIRELESS"

Their audio Catalogue 800 no. is (I called info)

1-800-733-6636 
(at least that's what *I* heard, the 800 directory has the crappiest
synthetic voice I've EVER heard, they have a really bad problem with
their fricatives...)

	-Bill
-- 
-B

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From: carlinra@vuse.vanderbilt.edu (Robert Carlin)
Subject: Looking for out of print paperbacks
Summary: Help me find some Esther Friesner novels, please!
Keywords: Esther Friesner, _Druid's Blood_, _New York by Knight_
Organization: Vanderbilt University School of Engineering, Nashville, TN, USA
Distribution: na
Date: Tue, 28 Jul 1992 23:01:31 GMT

Hi, folks!

    I've been trying to find copies of Esther M. Friesner's early novels,
but haven't had much luck.  Both novels I'm looking for are out of print.
They were published under the Signet SF line by NAL-Dutton.  The particular
titles are

    _New York By Knight_, published in 1986

    _Druid's Blood_, published in 1988

    Both books were only published in paperback.

    If you have these novels and would like to offload them to someone, or
if you know of a used bookstore that does mail order, please let me know.
Before you start, though, I don't need the books in pristine condition - if
all the pages are between the covers, I'm content.  Also, I really don't 
want to pay more than $5 for the books, before shipping & handling.

    Thanks in advance for your help!

    						Rob


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From: visnurpk@ubvmsb.cc.buffalo.edu (Rich Kernin)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.marketplace
Subject: Wanted: Address/Phone for "Star Tech"
Date: 24 Jul 92 22:53:00 GMT
Organization: University at Buffalo
News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.41

Hi,

   I'm looking for the address/phone number of a Sci-Fi mail order
shop called "Star Tech".  Any info/help is *greatly* appreciated.
Thanks!

-Rich
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From: asaranga@sunee.uwaterloo.ca (Andrew Sarangan)
Subject: Hitch Hiker Guide to the Galaxy - BBC series
Originator: asaranga@sunee.waterloo.edu
Organization: University of Waterloo
Date: Fri, 31 Jul 1992 00:44:02 GMT

Can anyone tell me how I can get a hold of the BBC's Hithhikers guide to the 
galaxy sound recordings ?

Thanks


Andrew
From: sheol!throopw@dg-rtp.dg.com (Wayne Throop)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.reviews
Subject: Mirabile, by Janet Kagan
Date: 29 Jul 92 20:43:54 GMT

Mirabile, by Janet Kagan

What attracted me to this book was the evident sense of fun and
wordplay in the titles of the collected stories.  "The Loch Moose
Monster", "The Return of the Kangaroo Rex", "The Flowering Inferno",
and so on.  This sense of wry amusement with the world continues
throughout the stories, so my expectations weren't crushed.

Mirabile is a planet, colonized by an interstellar expedition from
Earth, and now isolated (presumably by distance, but something may have
happened to Earth also... this is not clearly developed).  But to save
space on the ship, the animals shipped with the colonists have had the
genetic information of other species "piggybacked" onto their own.
Thus, when environmental conditions are right, a flower might produce
peculiar seeds that hatch into a polinating insect, or a cow might give
birth to a deer, or whatever.

This setting is used to tell a series of stories, some about the
results of the intended piggybacking process going awry and producing
interesting blends of earth species, some about interactions with the
local pre-existing ecology.

Each story involves some puzzle or some mystery (small or large) to
figure out.  One problem I had was that most all the mysteries were too
easy to figure out.  With perhaps the exception of the tinkering done
to protect bats from a local predator, which I didn't see coming, I was
way ahead of the author on most of the stories, which detracted from
their fun for me.

On the other hand, these stories have some of the flavor of the 1950's
Heinlein juveniles, with some of the points people find bad about that
vintage of Heinlein strained out.

So, the technical gimick seemed weak, the stories seemed a bit
oversimple, but they have a nice sense of fun and a good exposure to
problem solving behavior (so to speak), and a good eye for detail.  On
the whole, I had a good time reading.

%A   Janet Kagan
%T   Mirabile
%I   Tor Books
%C   New York
%D   1991
%G   ISBN 0-812-50993-5
%P   278 pages

--
Wayne Throop  ...!mcnc!dg-rtp!sheol!throopw
From: ecl@mtgzy.att.com (Evelyn C Leeper +1 908 957 2070)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.reviews
Subject: THE KING by Donald Barthelme
Date: 28 Jul 92 06:26:45 GMT


                        THE KING by Donald Barthelme
                     A book review by Evelyn C. Leeper
                     Copyright 1992 by Evelyn C. Leeper

     The Nazis are bombing London, but King Arthur also has to contend with
Lord Haw-Haw's broadcasts accusing Guinevere of infidelities.  If this
sounds just a little "off"--well, that what's it is.  It's the
"transhistorical party" (described by Brian McHale in POSTMODERNIST FICTION
and perhaps made most popular by Steve Allen in his "Meeting of the Minds"
television series)--the meeting of people of different historical eras and
different "ontological statuses" (Lord Haw-Haw was real; King Arthur may
have had a real existence but the King Arthur we know from story and legend
bears little resemblance to that; the Black Knight was purely a literary
creation).

     Maybe I just don't get it.  It was amusing enough, seeing the old ideas
of chivalry contrasted with the realities of the modern world, but there's
only enough there for a short story, and this is a 30,000-word novella.
(And though it may be heresy, I think Howard Waldrop would have done it
better.)  I know that Donald Barthelme is well-respected in literary
circles; it's just that from this book I can't tell why.  (I did like
Moser's illustrations, perhaps even more than the text.)

%A      Barthelme, Donald
%T      The King
%I      Penguin
%C      New York
%D      1990
%O      trade paperback, US$8.00 [1992]
%G      ISBN 0-14-014992-9
%P      159pp

Evelyn C. Leeper   |   +1 908 957 2070   |   att!mtgzy!ecl or ecl@mtgzy.att.com
From: ecl@mtgzy.att.com (Evelyn C Leeper +1 908 957 2070)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.reviews
Subject: THE MODULAR MAN by Roger MacBride Allen
Date: 22 Jul 92 06:28:48 GMT


                  THE MODULAR MAN by Roger MacBride Allen
                     A book review by Evelyn C. Leeper
		      Copyright 1992 Evelyn C. Leeper

     David Bailey has downloaded himself into his home maintenance unit
(a.k.a., vacuum cleaner, a.k.a., "Herbert"--it's a pun, get it?) and now
Herbert is being charged with first-degree murder, because the complete
download of a personality destroys the original.  The district attorney
hopes Herbert's owner (Suzanne Jantille, who is also David's widow and a
lawyer) will take the obvious path and ask for dismissal on the grounds that
Herbert can't be charged because he isn't human.  This would set a precedent
for preventing the rich from achieving immortality by replacing all the
parts that wear out--in effect, turning themselves into cyborgs.  But
Suzanne takes another tack.

     Allen raises a lot of interesting issues here, but eventually short-
circuits them (you'll pardon the pun) by providing an ending that does not
follow at all from what comes before, but from the whim of one character
(which means, basically, the whim of the author).

     And the supposedly innovative solution to resolve the problem of the
"immortal rich" is one that has appeared before, and in a very well-known
work.  (I'm desperately trying to avoid spoilers here.)

     In addition, I'm no lawyer, but it seems obvious to me that if Herbert
can stand trial as David Bailey, then David Bailey isn't dead, and so no one
can be tried for his murder.  If the prosecution is claimed Herbert is David
Bailey, but a *different* David Bailey, then it's clear that the original
David Bailey did all the set-up for the transfer ("murder") and so the new
one is not responsible.  (If I rig up a suicide device so that I'm killed
when someone rings my doorbell, is the unsuspecting mailman guilty of
murder?)  Allen tries a bit of hand-waving to get around this, with some
obscure point of law not introduced until near the end of the story (future
law, not any law we have), but it's not very convincing.

     This is probably the last of the "Next Wave" series, and even this is
an abbreviated entry: instead of an introduction by Isaac Asimov and an
essay by a "working scientist," it has three short articles by Asimov strung
together in place of the essay and no introduction.

     THE MODULAR MAN started out with some great ideas, but didn't carry
them through.  I wish I could recommend this book, but ultimately I found it
disappointing and annoying.

%A      Allen, Roger MacBride
%T      The Modular Man
%I      Bantam Spectra
%C      New York
%D      June 1992
%O      paperback, US$4.99
%G      ISBN 0-553-29559-4
%P      306pp

Evelyn C. Leeper   |   +1 908 957 2070   |   att!mtgzy!ecl or ecl@mtgzy.att.com
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From: mcb@genbank.bio.net (Michael C. Berch)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.reviews
Subject: Administrivia - News problem at presto.ig.com
Date: 30 Jul 92 22:55:08 GMT
Organization: IntelliGenetics, Inc., Mountain View, California, USA

Just wanted to advise that there are a few things in the queue for
rec.arts.sf.reviews, but I have not been able to post them for the past
several days due to a news system problem at presto.ig.com.  This
should be resolved by tonight, but if not, the articles will be posted
from an alternate site (turbo.bio.net) tomorrow.

--
Michael C. Berch  
rec.arts.sf.reviews co-moderator
mcb@presto.ig.com / rasfr-comments@presto.ig.com
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From: a0s5108@titan.ucc.umass.edu (Neal and Mara Priestly)
Subject: Re: High Explosives Quote Results=Frustration--Help!
Organization: University of Massachusetts, Amherst
Date: Sat, 25 Jul 1992 16:20:33 GMT

In article <1648@hydra.bucknell.edu> norbeck@castor.cs.bucknell.edu (nancy norbeck `93) writes:
>
>
>Anyway, in case this might strike someone as being familiar, here
>is the quote again:
>
>	"There are very few personal problems that can't be solved 
>	with a suitable application of high explosives."
>
>The contestants for the origin of the quote are as follows:
>
>Apocalypse Now
>Uncommon Valor
>Monty Python's Flying Circus
>Heathers
>A few authors (no specific books as far as I can recall) such as 
>	Martin Amis
>
>
>Could anyone tell me, beyond the shadow of a doubt, where this quote
>is from?  Choice is wonderful, but this is a little ridiculous..
>
>Thanks..
>
>Nancy
>

I cannot speak to the quotes inclusion in the other films mentioned, but it
is most definitely in Uncommon Valor, or at least the VHS copy I rented last
night.  Got curious myself, and found a movie with someone my wife doesn't 
mind watching (Swayze) so we rented it.  Blaster delivers the line during
the teams re-training session.  It's delivered in a Fred Rogers kind of
tone that had me ROTFL.

Hope it helps...

-Neal

"It's a hand grenade..." -Frankenstien, _Death Race 2000_
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From: lintz@buster.cis.udel.edu (Brian Lintz)
Subject: Re: Watchmen Survey
Organization: University of Delaware, Newark
Date: Thu, 23 Jul 1992 18:17:14 GMT

In article <01GMOT53Q1B894E0KQ@VAX1.UMKC.EDU> CDOMS@VAX1.UMKC.EDU writes:

>THE SURVEY
>
>The question for all of you is this: If the Watchmen made it to the 'visual
>medium' who would you like to see act in it?  Yes, I know this was probably
>discussed prior to me signing on to this discusion list, but new actors
>have appeared, and can be considered for the role.
>
>COMEDIAN:

My choice for the Comedian would be Dennis Farina. He played Lt. Turello
on _Crime Story_, the crime boss in _Midnight Run_ and had a part in
that miniseries about the Columbia cocaine cartels. He looks like the
Comedian and in most of his parts he acts like the Comedian.

>DR MANHATTAN:
>
>Options: F/X create 'DM' like in T2.

This is the way to go. You can just pick some unknown to be Jon Ostrander
in the flashbacks.

>NITE OWL (DANIEL)

My choice here is Scott Bakula from _Quantum Leap_. I'm not quite sure
why, but I think he would be a good choice.

>OYZMANDIAS

Kenneth Branaugh(sp?)_ from _Henry V_ and _Dead Again_. He's a damn
good actor, and I can definitely see him in this role.

>RORSCHACH

This one's tough. Can't think of anyone offhand.

>DIRECTORS:

Ridley Scott or Terry Gilliam. Gilliam was actually supposed to do
a film version of _Watchmen_ but it got shelved. Hmmm... Stanley
Kubrick is a far-fetched possibility.

>TV OR MOVIE?
>
>Personally I would prefer a TV mini series, cause I'm afraid any movie
>would be chopped down to 'bare bones'

A tv miniseries would certainly be able to show more, but a movie
woud get a bigger budget, and could hire better actors and a better
director, and also be able to do Dr. M as special f/x.

>Carol Doms
>University of Missouri-Kansas City
>cdoms@vax1.umkc
>cdoms@umkcvax1

Brian Lintz
lintz@udel.edu
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From: bjgaed@bb1t.monsanto.com
Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.misc
Subject: Re: Need recommendation on HUMOR stuffs
Date: 21 Jul 92 06:32:51 CST
Organization: Monsanto Company, St. Louis, MO

> post, and I will be happy to e-mail to anyone else who requests.  It's 

Note to "Fox":

Received your request for this list, but I have tried twice to send it 
to you at "mblaser@nyx.cs.du.edu" and have gotten back a "User 
Unknown" message.  Let me know if there is an alternate address.



 --Electric Monk                   (Bruce Gaede)
 
 "...and then time started seriously to pass."
 --Douglas Adams, _Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency_
From: dev@mentor.cc.purdue.edu (Larry Weeks)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.misc
Subject: Usenet Olympics
Date: 31 Jul 92 17:39:14 GMT
Distribution: usa
Organization: Purdue University Computing Center

Hi,

Does anyone have a copy of the Usenet Olympics stories that were
posted back during the Split? I lost my copies in the process of
moving between machines. Thanks.

Larry
--
Larry Weeks        | "We are all worms. But I do believe I am a
dev@ecn.purdue.edu |  glowworm." -- Winston Churchill
-------------------+--------------------------------------------------
"One kiss is a dangerous drug, I got what I deserved, I dared to fall 
 in love." -- B. Bourgoise
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From: urf@ki.icl.se (Urban F)
Subject: Re: Eating our other world friends & enemies
Reply-To: urf@icl.se
Organization: None: On USENET I speak only for myself.
Date: Sat, 25 Jul 1992 05:45:21 GMT

mccolm@darwin.math.usf.edu. (Gregory McColm) writes:

>In article <BrIv18.Es1@well.sf.ca.us> dasher@well.sf.ca.us (D Anton Sherwood) writes:
>>In article <1992Apr27.191800.5427@quest.UUCP> curt@quest.UUCP (Curtis Gibson) writes:
>>>
>>>Its scary to think that Mr. Spock could beam down the to front steps of
>>>the Supreme Court and there are no laws to protect him from being; killed,
>>>eaten, enslaved, stuffed & mounted, put in a zoo, raped, etc (you get the
>>>idea) by anyone who wanted to to it to him.  Think about it, no protection
>>-- 
>>D. Anton Sherwood *\\* dasher@well.sf.ca.us *\\* +1 415 664 2229

This depends on which country he beams down to. Here in Sweden, he would
admittedly be "an animal", but our hunting laws explicitly forbids the
hunting of all animals, except specified species, and at specified times.
(I think it is the reverse in the UK and USA?)
Wild animals also have the same protection against cruelty as domestic ones.

>One can only imagine the legal hash that cyborgs 
>will inspire.
>-----Greg McColm

We actually had a cyborg here, a while. This was a man with an artificial
heart, and it was during the time death was defined as the lack of a
working heart, so yes, he was legally dead. The law was changed shortly
afterwards, now it is concerned with brain activity.
-- 
 Urban Fredriksson  urf@icl.se  ( N.G.U.Fredriksson.swe2001@oasis.icl.co.uk )
 / <- this is an ASCII map of Sweden
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From: goldfarb@ocf.berkeley.edu (David Goldfarb)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.misc
Subject: Re: Even Money
Date: 21 Jul 1992 07:44:02 GMT
Organization: The Sinister Icy Black Hand of Death Club
Reply-To: goldfarb@ocf.berkeley.edu (David Goldfarb)
NNTP-Posting-Host: hailstorm.berkeley.edu
Originator: goldfarb@hailstorm.berkeley.edu

	To make up for the hardbacks, many paperbacks now have prices 
such as $4.99. Yuck.

-- 
   David Goldfarb          |"I'm going to die if you touch me one more time.
goldfarb@ocf.berkeley.edu  |Well, I guess that I'm going to die no matter what."
goldfarb@UCBOCF.BITNET     |          -- They Might Be Giants