phil@rice.ARPA (10/12/85)
From: William LeFebvre <phil@rice.ARPA>
It's out. I've actually seen a copy in a B. Dalton's (or was it
Walden's? --same thing). It is 500+ pages, standard hardback size
book, but the typing is very large (about 12 point, I think) and the
interline spacing is generous, which compensates for the number of
pages. I wasn't that interested in the book, so I didn't bother
looking at the price. An intersting aside: one of the preliminary
pages (between the front cover and the start of the story) contains a
list of other things published by Hubbard. The list is rather long,
and I assume this was inserted by the publisher to encourage people to
buy other books from them. This would imply to me that there ARE older
Hubbard stories still being printed (since the only other book he's
written recently, to my knowledge, is "Battlefield Earth"). Another
one of these pages had a list of all the books' names in the proposed
dekalogy* (yes, it's even footnoted in the book). Pretty intense.
If I can find just-released Hubbard, why can't I find just-released Varley?
William LeFebvre
Department of Computer Science
Rice University
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* 10 volume work