Re: (Nebula) Nebula Finalists 1975

On Wed, 20 Mar 2024 16:24:24 -0400, William Hyde
<wthyde1953@gmail.com> wrote:

Titus G wrote:

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On 20/03/24 09:15, Ted Nolan <tednolan> wrote:

As I recall, if you like the Lafferty shorts and not the novels,
_Space Chantey_ may be sort of an in-between point, having been
half of an Ace-Double.

 
That is the novel I began, but didn't get very far through, after it was
suggested here a long time ago, perhaps by you?
I have "Archipelago" to read and the opening chapters were as
entertaining to begin as his short stories are.
Many of his Kindle novels are only NZ$2 at Amazon Australia but I
noticed this hard back for NZ$560.96c; just to the right of the Kindle
price of NZ$10.74c,
https://www.amazon.com.au/Lafferty-Orbit-R-ebook/dp/B01DT74Q2I/
Surely a misprint?

>
This sort of thing does happen.  For years, David Wishart's "The Lydian
Baker" was only available as a (cheaply produced) paperback for $360. My
second year statistical mechanics book, a $7 hardback, was on sale for
$510, while Nathan Divinsky's "Rings and Radicals" (a mathematics book,
despite its title) was on sale for about a hundred times my purchase
price - and someone on this group offered to buy it from me even so.

After replacing my falling-to-pieces /Arabic Grammar/ (ISBN
0-486-44129-6) (W. Wright) in 2004, I tried replacing the
similarly-delapidated /An Idiom Book of New Testament Greek/ (CDF
Moule), but the price was simply outrageous.

And both were paperbacks, BTW.

Even in the latter half of the 60s, the recommended pattern was: buy
the book used from the book store before the course and sell it back
afterwards -- in effect renting it for the course.

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