Glad you both dug it so much, and I have to agree, Ron S.: Like you, I’ve been doing this book/genre collecting thing for a long time — more than thirty years now — and, as well, have much of Centipede’s output, and this is almost certainly the nicest book on either the longevity or Centipede scale.
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Anybody spring for the limited of the Blish book this last weekend? I'm not a big sci-fi reader, and don't care much for religion in my fiction, so this was a pass for me. Sounds like those who bought this first book in the quartet get first refusal on the three subsequent volumes (in order to preserve their number), so it looks like I'm probably shut out for the set, but that's okay...hopefully I won't regret it later.Twitter: https://twitter.com/ron_clinton
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I have not read the book but based on the description it doesn't fit into what I like to read. It sounds a little to cold and analytical for my taste.
I really liked the DJ though.
Originally posted by RonClinton View PostAnybody spring for the limited of the Blish book this last weekend? I'm not a big sci-fi reader, and don't care much for religion in my fiction, so this was a pass for me. Sounds like those who bought this first book in the quartet get first refusal on the three subsequent volumes (in order to preserve their number), so it looks like I'm probably shut out for the set, but that's okay...hopefully I won't regret it later.Looking for the fonting of youth.
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Nothing to see here!Ok, I really can't come up with anymore of these stupid things...
- May 2011
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Originally posted by RonClinton View PostAnybody spring for the limited of the Blish book this last weekend? I'm not a big sci-fi reader, and don't care much for religion in my fiction, so this was a pass for me. Sounds like those who bought this first book in the quartet get first refusal on the three subsequent volumes (in order to preserve their number), so it looks like I'm probably shut out for the set, but that's okay...hopefully I won't regret it later.
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I pass on the first Shea NIFTT volume as well...that one, unlike this Blish, I kind of waver on whether or not I did the right thing as I do like Shea's horror fiction (and have the AUTOPSY Centipede collection), but ultimately, like the Moorcock and Leiber series that I also skipped, I just don't care for sword-and-sorcery/fantasy fiction, and I'm trying to be more selective when it comes to which titles I opt for. It's tough, though, when you're a Centipede fanboy and want them all just out of some odd, indefinable completist urge.Twitter: https://twitter.com/ron_clinton
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Nothing to see here!Ok, I really can't come up with anymore of these stupid things...
- May 2011
- 8801
Originally posted by RonClinton View PostI pass on the first Shea NIFTT volume as well...that one, unlike this Blish, I kind of waver on whether or not I did the right thing as I do like Shea's horror fiction (and have the AUTOPSY Centipede collection), but ultimately, like the Moorcock and Leiber series that I also skipped, I just don't care for sword-and-sorcery/fantasy fiction, and I'm trying to be more selective when it comes to which titles I opt for. It's tough, though, when you're a Centipede fanboy and want them all just out of some odd, indefinable completist urge.
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Originally posted by RonClinton View PostAnybody spring for the limited of the Blish book this last weekend? I'm not a big sci-fi reader, and don't care much for religion in my fiction, so this was a pass for me. Sounds like those who bought this first book in the quartet get first refusal on the three subsequent volumes (in order to preserve their number), so it looks like I'm probably shut out for the set, but that's okay...hopefully I won't regret it later.
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Originally posted by mhatchett View PostI ordered it. I like Blish, I think he is pretty under-rated. He also wrote some really good star trek novels.
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Originally posted by mhatchett View PostI read that those Star Trek books set him up financially for the rest of his life, freeing him creatively to do different things.
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Originally posted by Martin View PostDid anyone else notice that the Stereoscopic viewers in Something Wicked were designed by Brian May?Twitter: https://twitter.com/ron_clinton
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Nothing to see here!Ok, I really can't come up with anymore of these stupid things...
- May 2011
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Originally posted by RonClinton View Post
no, but it doesn’t surprise me…he’s been very active in stereoscopic history and publication for a while. I have a couple of his oversized stereoscopic books, and their darned impressive (and entertaining).
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