burton@inuxe.UUCP (Thomas Burton) (11/02/83)
I was looking at the new books advertised in the back of my copy of "Startide Rising", and noticed that David Brin has two books advertised: "Sundiver" and "Tides of Kithrup". The odd thing is, "Tides of Kithrup" and "Startide Rising" have identical numbers except that the latter has a '-1' tacked on the end. Sounds like "Tides of Kithrup" was the original title of the book, and Bantam never bothered to change their advertisements to correspond to the new title (not even in the book itself). Can anyone confirm this? Doug Burton ATT-CP IN inuxe!burton P.S. For those of you looking for 'Sundiver', it appears that the only way to get it is to find it in a used bookstore or order it yourself direct from Bantam books. B. Dalton in Indianapolis told me that none of their distributors have it anymore, and Walden ordered it for me six weeks ago and it hasn't shown up yet (apparently publishers don't like shipping books to retail outlets unless there is a big order, so they are waiting until this particular Walden bookstore orders enough Bantam books to justify shipping). Dalton CAN'T order from the publisher, and Walden never seems to be very successful at it.
smb@ulysses.UUCP (Steven Bellovin) (11/03/83)
I found a copy of Sundiver about six weeks ago. No problem; just walked into a bookstore and there it was, just sitting there. Gee -- do you think all the publicity on the net worked that well....?
friedman@uiucdcs.UUCP (friedman ) (11/04/83)
#R:inuxe:-62600:uiucdcs:12500052:000:514 uiucdcs!friedman Nov 3 09:04:00 1983 The Illini Union bookstore here at the University of Illinois in Urbana- Champaign just successfully ordered 8 copies of Sundiver. Unfortunately, I don't know who they ordered from. Brin published a small part of Startide Rising in Analog about two years ago as the short story "The Tides of Kithrup". So I suspect that that was the original working title of the novel as well. But even if you read the short story, you have read only an insignificant amount of the whole novel, so don't let that put you off.
twt@uicsl.UUCP (11/15/83)
#R:inuxe:-62600:uicsl:10700053:000:326 uicsl!twt Nov 4 17:35:00 1983 I also had no problem finding Sundiver. I got it about two weeks ago. I believe I got it at the B. Dalton in Market Place Mall in Champaign, IL. If you live in Indy, maybe you should just drive to Champaign to get it, it's only a two hour drive, plus, Champaign-Urbana is SUCH an exciting metropolis (Ha-Ha). Mary