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dark and stormy knight
Definitely on my radar. Good catch.
If you can spend three bucks in a better way you live on an alternate earth many times removed.
Indeed
You should read the G. McDonald Wallis straight away - I imagine it would put you within a very select group of SF fans. Moreover, if anyone ever comes onto book search and asks what a certain book title is and you know its "Legend of Lost Earth", you'd get about a gazillion kudos points.
(I like the look of the Calvin Knox too).
Got an old Ace paperback meself today in the mail:
Did you actually pay the cover price?
Sure did (plus about $7.25 more)!
If you can spend three bucks in a better way you live on an alternate earth many times removed.
Finding those books the way you did reminds me of some of the comic dreams I used to have where I'd be in the used bookstore and find a big stack of comics I'd been looking for.
More roughed up than beat up this is still in very readable condition with an impressive line-up of the usual suspects. What I don't like, however, regardless of condition, is when the last page of a book is a story page. I prefer a blank page (flyleaf?) or an ad of some kind because even if the last sentence is complete, period and all, you can never be sure a page hasn't been torn out for who knows what bizarre reason. This is especially true in this case when the back cover is completely detached from the spine. The last page of this book (the story is "Who Knows?" by Guy de Maupassant) is a full page and ends with a complete sentence, but is it really the last page? Inspecting the inmost edge with my reading glasses I cannot detect any trace of a removed page so it probably is but until I can locate the story in another collection I'll never know for sure. Because, lacking evidence, who knows?
J.D., you get much better mail than I do.
I'm especially envious of the Leiber. I have yet to read "Adepts Gambit" -- have I ever mentioned I'm about 30 years behind in my reading? -- but I'd love to get my hands on that version to compare to the one eventually published.
Randy M.
It's Jackie Chan!Found a book I'd been trying to remember the title of for ages:
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