From: gimonca@skypoint.com (Charles Gimon)
Date: Thu, 21 Nov 1996 06:19:19 -0800 (PST)
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
Subject: Re: Why I Don't Read SF Much Anymore (fwd)
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> Date: Thu, 21 Nov 1996 00:14:49 -0800
> From: "Timothy C. May" <tcmay@got.net>
> Subject: Re: Why I Don't Read SF Much Anymore
> 

[among other things]

> 
> - Vernor Vinge, "True Names," obviously, "The Peace War," "Marooned in Real
> Time," "A Fire Upon the Deep," and his collections of short stories (incl.
> "The Ungoverned").
> 
> (Caveat: I've been invited to do a chapter for Vinge's forthcoming "True
> Names" book, containing essays about computers and society, and, of course,
> his novella of the same name. So I may be biased.)
> 

Is this the St. Martin's Press "True Names" edition that was listed in 
amazon.com? At one time, it was going to be released August or Sept. of this
year.

I have to mention that the owner of Dreamhaven Books here in Minneapolis
complained to me last year that he has a "truckload" of remaindered copies
of "Peace War". They still have a bunch--every time I've been in there, 
there's a hardbound "Peace War" on display with a price tag of $1.00.
Buying a copy of "True Names" right now is about as easy as buying an
original Dead Sea Scroll--but if anybody wants a cheap copy of "Peace War",
look up Dreamhaven in Minneapolis.

--C.G.