[net.sf-lovers] Brooks

chabot@miles.DEC (L S Chabot) (03/18/85)

> (By the way, did anybody else notice that for a LONG time before TCoT
> came out, there were no Brunner paperbacks in most bookstores (I exclude
> SF specialty stores)?  It was terrible, there was nothing to separate
> Brooks from Brust :-)
> 
> 		-- David Dyer-Bennet
> 		-- ...decwrl!dec-rhea!dec-mrvax!ddb

< *I* noticed.  Sheesh!  It is an honor to be next to Brunner, but Brooks???
<		-- SKZB

Are you speaking of ... Walter R. Brooks?  What greater honor could there be
than to be next to the author of _Freddie_and_the_Baseball_Team_from_Mars_ ? 

A disgruntled :-) Freddie fan,
L S Chabot
UUCP:	...decwrl!dec-rhea!dec-amber!chabot
ARPA:	...chabot%amber.DEC@decwrl.ARPA
USFail:    DEC, LMO4/H4, 150 Locke Drive, Marlborough, MA  01752

brust@hyper.UUCP (Steven Brust) (03/22/85)

> > (By the way, did anybody else notice that for a LONG time before TCoT
> > came out, there were no Brunner paperbacks in most bookstores (I exclude
> > SF specialty stores)?  It was terrible, there was nothing to separate
> > Brooks from Brust :-)
> > 
> > 		-- David Dyer-Bennet
> > 		-- ...decwrl!dec-rhea!dec-mrvax!ddb
> 
> < *I* noticed.  Sheesh!  It is an honor to be next to Brunner, but Brooks???
> <		-- SKZB
> 
> Are you speaking of ... Walter R. Brooks?  What greater honor could there be
> than to be next to the author of _Freddie_and_the_Baseball_Team_from_Mars_ ? 
> 
> A disgruntled :-) Freddie fan,
> L S Chabot
> UUCP:	...decwrl!dec-rhea!dec-amber!chabot
> ARPA:	...chabot%amber.DEC@decwrl.ARPA
> USFail:    DEC, LMO4/H4, 150 Locke Drive, Marlborough, MA  01752

Well, no, that wasn't the Brooks I head in mind...
			- SKZB