henry@utzoo.UUCP (Henry Spencer) (11/20/85)
Since there is local interest in a science fiction newsgroup, and much of Ontario no longer gets net.sf-lovers due to the utzoo newsgroup cuts, I have tentatively created ont.sf-lovers. The ont groups are sketchy enough that we don't really have any obvious place to hold a temporary discussion to assess traffic volume, and in any case I don't think we need to be as formal about local newsgroups as for the netwide groups. I suggest that in three months or so, the usefulness of ont.sf-lovers should be reassessed; I will raise the issue then if nobody else does. -- Henry Spencer @ U of Toronto Zoology {allegra,ihnp4,linus,decvax}!utzoo!henry
jimomura@lsuc.UUCP (Jim Omura) (11/21/85)
Well, to start off a discussion, just to see how many people are reading this group at all, I'll start by just asking if anyone knows anything about Heinlein's latest book? The one *after* "Job" which itself just came out in paperback. I'm hoping everyone who reads this at all will post something on this question or *any* other, just so we can see how many people sign up at all. Cheers! -- Jim O. -- James Omura, Barrister & Solicitor, Toronto ihnp4!utzoo!lsuc!jimomura Byte Information eXchange: jimomura Compuserve: 72205,541 MTS at WU: GKL6
chris@aquila.UUCP (chris) (11/22/85)
I have just seen the ads for Heinlein's new book. I sure hope it is as good as Friday (that is, better than Job or The Number of the Beast). Although this has nothing to do with SF, has anyone gotten the November issue of Astronomy? My subscription ran out and I didn't renew because they had my new address for 6 monthes and still wanted to send to the old address! The bookstores up here (Yonge + Eglinton) haven't gotten it it yet. With Halley's visible sometime this month I was looking forward to this issue. Chris Retterath dciem!aquila!chris
tom@utcsri.UUCP (Tom Nadas) (11/23/85)
Newsgroups: ont.sf-lovers,ont.uucp Subject: Re: tentative Ontario SF group Summary: Expires: References: <6154@utzoo.UUCP> <931@lsuc.UUCP> Sender: Reply-To: tom@utcsri.UUCP (Tom Nadas) Followup-To: Distribution: Organization: CSRI, University of Toronto Keywords: I don't really have anything to add myself to the discussion of Heinlein's THE CAT WHO COULD WALK THROUGH walls, but I happened to be at Bakka, the Toronto SF specialty store, and overheard a debate on the books merits between Hugo-winner Mike Glicksohn and the lovely manager of the store, Naiomi Kane. Both seemed to feel it was a disappointment, but, as Ford Prefect would say, Glicksohn doubly so. -- Tom Nadas UUCP: {decvax,linus,ihnp4,uw-beaver,allegra,utzoo}!utcsri!tom CSNET: tom@toronto
henry@utzoo.UUCP (Henry Spencer) (11/24/85)
Ahem, folks, please edit the ",ont.uucp" *out* of the headers when posting contributions to ont.sf-lovers as followups. ont.uucp is not the right place for discussion of Heinlein's books. -- Henry Spencer @ U of Toronto Zoology {allegra,ihnp4,linus,decvax}!utzoo!henry