Comments on: A bit out of my price range, but very nice …

By: Oskar Shapley

Oskar Shapley — Mon, 16 Mar 2009 18:11:51 +0000

Strange stranger is strange, Mr. Heinlein.

By: dave heasman

dave heasman — Sun, 15 Mar 2009 03:27:16 +0000

An awful lot of these “novels” started out as novellas – about 30 pages – in the not-quite-pulps and were ruined as they became novels. Can’t begrudge the authors a few royalties, though.

By: bob mcmanus

bob mcmanus — Sat, 14 Mar 2009 02:43:02 +0000

I don’t know, I need this explained to me. The collection itself is admirable as an achievement, but it can never really be my collection, and coveting it seem to almost define “crass.”

Collecting is something you do.

By: bob mcmanus

bob mcmanus — Fri, 13 Mar 2009 23:42:04 +0000

6:Around 1983, I made a point of tracking down all the Hugo & Nebula (and BFA)nominees, including novellas and the short stories to date just to read, just to own a reading copy. The Clifton was one of the hardest to find, and Delany’s Star Pit for some reason. All just paperbacks few VG but a lot of original pb’s, Orbits, Quarks, Novas…not Holbo’s acquistive capitalist bushwa thrill of competitive accumulation.

For me, it was the fun of searching the used bookstores.

By: Russell Arben Fox

Russell Arben Fox — Fri, 13 Mar 2009 21:52:38 +0000

Flowers for Algernon won a Nebula?!? Holy crap. Clearly, science fiction back in the 1960s was a different animal than it is today.

By: Xanthippas

Xanthippas — Fri, 13 Mar 2009 21:38:20 +0000

Wow…what an amazing collection. I’d be pleased to own all of those books in whatever edition.

By: Donald A. Coffin

Donald A. Coffin — Fri, 13 Mar 2009 17:54:34 +0000

To be fair, I haven’t completely stopped. I’ve read most of William Gibson’s work (and Bruce Sterling’s.) I’ve read Jonathan Strange. I’ve read The Yiddish Policeman. But it’s not like half of my fiction-reading-for-pleasure (more like 1%), as it used to be.

By: Keith

Keith — Fri, 13 Mar 2009 16:43:13 +0000

Then you’ve missed out on some truly wonderful books, Donald. The Diamond Age is amazing, as is Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell. The fact that both could win the same award shows the breadth and depth of the genre.

By: Eric H

Eric H — Fri, 13 Mar 2009 16:03:03 +0000

Well, they are priced in dollars, and at the rate we are printing and issuing them, these books may soon be in your range if you can reserve them at current prices.

By: Donald A. Coffin

Donald A. Coffin — Fri, 13 Mar 2009 15:56:37 +0000

Based on those lists, I can now say about when I stopped reading science fiction…1975…

By: kid bitzer

kid bitzer — Fri, 13 Mar 2009 14:53:36 +0000

great cover pic on the ‘amazing stories’. no title, though.

“who you calling ‘shrimp’?”
or perhaps
“view to a krill”
or perhaps
“arthropod-racers”