Re: Nebula Finalists 2015

On Fri, 03 Jan 2025 14:48:22 -0800, The Horny Goat <lcraver@home.ca>
wrote:

On Sat, 28 Dec 2024 15:35:10 -0600, Lynn McGuire
<lynnmcguire5@gmail.com> wrote:
>

You know, I have learned a few things in my 64 years of life, that if
you want something and you have the funds, grab it.  You never know if
that something will still be available in a year.  Plus, I like
supporting authors, especially independent authors.

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Doesn't always work - when I was a 20 year old undergraduate (nearly
50 yrs ago now) I got a copy of the CRC Handbook of Chemistry +
Physics for $25 (Cdn) which of course would be much more now and of
course was a lot more in terms of my buying power then (i.e. it came
out of my summer earnings).

I bought /Handbook of Mathematical Functions with Formulas, Graphs,
and Mathematical Tables/ when I was rather young (and, IIRC, bought it
again after donating to a library in the meantime; at least you held
on to your /CRC Handbook of Chemistry + Physics/). It takes up shelf
space here to this day.

I still don't have any idea what most of the functions /are/, or what
they are used for, but the graphs (in my memory, at least) are often
interesting.

This was a Dover reprint of a US Govt document. The tables were
generated by a computer -- which may well have used vacuum tubes.

Talked to my son at Christmas about donating it to the locate
Hackspace he's involved with - I figure the chemistry data should be
current along with the mathematical tables (about 40 pages of
integrals solved) though no doubt in the time since then they will
have added much new material. (I'm too lazy to have looked it up in
the reference section of the local public library which is on a
different floor than the main stacks...)
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As for SF - still got lots but my late wife tended to wall off with
new stuff most of her book collection then when she ran short of space
started walling off my half of the room. She/s been gone 2 1/2 years
and I haven't yet gotten around to un-walling off the room (with the
idea of giving away most of hers and organizing mine)

--
"Here lies the Tuscan poet Aretino,
Who evil spoke of everyone but God,
Giving as his excuse, 'I never knew him.'"