@RUTGERS.ARPA:LINDSAY@TL-20A.ARPA (01/09/85)
From: LINDSAY@TL-20A.ARPA The story is in "Nine Hundred Grandmothers", by R.A. Lafferty. You want to read "Polity and Customs of the Camiroi". And then, of course, you want to read the rest of the book. "That way lies rump of skunk and madness." Don Lindsay%Tartan.Arpa -------
SIGEL%umass-cs.csnet@CSNET-RELAY.ARPA (10/27/85)
From: Andrew Sigel <SIGEL%umass-cs.csnet@CSNET-RELAY.ARPA> > infinet!cgf@topaz.rutgers.edu (Chris Faylor) > When I was in the third grade (about 24 years ago) I read a book > that sort of got me started on science fiction/fantasy. It involved > some kids who found an old coin which granted them wishes... sort > of. The coin was so old that they had to wish for everything twice > to get a complete wish, otherwise they only got half of what they > wished for. I believe the book you are referring to is HALF MAGIC by Edward Eager. Eager wrote a number of books very similar in tone about children and magic, much in the E. Nesbit tradition, but that I like better than Nesbit. It may very well be in print -- I noticed about a month back that a new paperback printing was being made of two Eager titles, and HALF MAGIC may have been one of them. It has been a while since I've read Eager, but I think the children in HALF MAGIC show up in MAGIC BY THE LAKE; there are some cross-overs, and you will surely want to read more of his books. I am sure the book will age well for you; I didn't read it for the first time until I was 25. Andrew Sigel
boyajian%akov68.DEC@decwrl.DEC.COM (12/20/85)
From: boyajian%akov68.DEC@decwrl.DEC.COM (JERRY BOYAJIAN) > From: "MARTIN J. MOORE" <mooremj@eglin-vax> > The story about the man who lands on a non-human planet and builds a > glider for the natives was called "Something to Say" and appeared in > Analog between 1961 and 1966. Sorry I can't nail it down any further! "Something to Say" was by John Berryman and appeared in the August 1966 issue of ANALOG. It was reprinted in the anthology ANALOG 6 (edited by, of course, John Campbell, Jr.). > The Gallegher stories are by Anthony Boucher and... > appear in the delightful collection _The_Compleat_Werewolf_. By now, you should know that that isn't true. --- jayembee (Jerry Boyajian, DEC, Acton-Nagog, MA) UUCP: {decvax|ihnp4|allegra|ucbvax|...} !decwrl!dec-rhea!dec-akov68!boyajian ARPA: boyajian%akov68.DEC@DECWRL.DEC.COM <"Bibliography is my business">
Cargo.PD@HI-MULTICS.ARPA (12/23/85)
From: "David S. Cargo" <Cargo@HI-MULTICS.ARPA> Ray Racine's request is answered with THE NIGHTLAND by William Hope Hodgson. This was first published in 1912. I bought a Hyperion Press, Inc., edition from 1976. This is part of the Hyperion reprint series CLASSICS OF SCIENCE FICTION. There have been abridged editions published, but I have no idea of their printing history. The original ends on page 583, and the style makes it seem even longer.