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[mrissa]

With the arrival of our new library furniture tomorrow, I've been going through and pulling out books I don't need to keep around. Many of them served their purpose in their time, and I've kept others by the same authors, but I estimate the odds that I will reread them at fairly small numbers, so off they go to some of you, and if you pass them on to someone else, well and good.

This is not a Buy Nothing Day protest of any kind. I assume that most of you buy books to the limits of your budget, and anyway, I don't celebrate Buy Nothing Day, because I try to observe Don't Buy Stupid Things Day 365/366 days a year, depending on what year. Sort of an "Earth Day every day" idea, really.

As usual: first dibs go to people in the Twin Cities area, but put your requests in, and it'll go first-come first-serve within those two categories (within the Twin Cities area first, within North America second -- I'm freeing up shelf space, not attempting to unite ideal books with ideal people, so I'm afraid I'm not much for shipping outside the continent unless it's really important). You don't have to take series together, but I've tried to indicate where there are such, if I remember, and you certainly can dibs them all at once.

Kevin J. Anderson: Hidden Empire.

Gregory Benford: The Martian Race

Ben Bova: Death Dream, Empire Builders, The Exiles Trilogy, The Kinsman Saga, Moonrise and Moonwar, Peacemakers and Privateers, Return to Mars, To Save the Sun and To Fear the Light (written with A.J. Austin, who is not alecaustin; anyway they're no longer available as I underestimated markgritter's attachment to them) The three pairs grouped with "ands" go together.

Steve Cash: The Meq. Semi-immortal Basque-ish people.

Samuel R. Delany: Neveryona. Not his masterwork.

Edward Gorman, ed.: The Black Lizard Anthology of Crime Fiction. Very crimey. Mostly what I would describe as noir, except where it isn't.

Andrew M. Greeley: A Christmas Wedding, Irish Eyes, Irish Lace, Irish Whiskey, A Midwinter's Tale, Thy Brother's Wife. The "Irish" books go together, and the winter holiday-ish books go together. (Not to be mistaken for Winter Holiday, which you can't have as it is mine and was the first Swallows and Amazons book I ever owned.)

Daniel Keyes Moran: The Last Dancer. Not actually the guy who wrote "Flowers for Algernon," which was my impression I bought this one when I was 15.

Mark Shepherd: Elvendude. The cover says, "Straight from Mercedes Lackey's world to ours!" And that is, in fact, what era of my life this book dates from.

Robert Silverberg: Sorcerers of Majipoor. For some reason I bounced off this one, even though I read the first three Majipoor books.

L. Neil Smith: The Crystal Empire, Henry Martyn, Pallas, The Wardove. Libertarian SF. Some of it with pirates.

David Wingrove: Beneath the Tree of Heaven, The Broken Wheel, The Middle Kingdom, The Stone Within, The White Mountain. All this is one series of a Chinese-dominated future, which is why I kept reading it: I wanted something distinctly non-Western, and this was what I could find at the time. Not what I would call a "nice" future, nor populated with "nice" people.

Joan D. Vinge: The Summer Queen, sequel to The Snow Queen.

Zoran Zivkovic: The Fourth Circle. This book features the rape of Stephen Hawking. You have been warned.

Comments

[callunav.livejournal.com]

I'm with you on the Don't Buy Stupid Things day(s).

And, unfortunately, I seem to be with you on books, too. At the very least, those all sound like things I could imagine wanting, but in actuality don't. :)

[juliansinger.livejournal.com]

IF no one Twin Cities wants them, I wouldn't mind The Summer Queen. Also the Cash, and the Delaney. (Which I once owned and never read and, therefore, got rid of it in a periodic cleaning fit.)

But I'm aware you're giving them to Twin Cities people first, so only if, etc.

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

I believe those are all three still around, so if you send your address to mris at-sign marissalingen dot com, I will send them out when I get the chance.

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

My lists are amazingly long, but my piles are not. I don't know if I'll make it through to Christmas with what I've got on hand. Of course, that's what libraries, friends, and rereads are for.

[brithistorian.livejournal.com]

I'd like the Shepherd and the Wingrove series, please. :-)

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

I will put them with your Gatorade.

Oh, I probably forgot to tell you: there is a bottle of Gatorade here labeled for you, since you said you liked it and I don't, and I no longer have the medical "issue" that was making it a good idea to drink Gatorade.

[brithistorian.livejournal.com]

Excellent! Would tomorrow be okay for me to come by and pick these up?

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

I will be out for much of tomorrow, so if you mean that you would like to come by and socialize with me, it's probably not a good time. But markgritter will be home all day except for when he's walking the dog, so if you just wanted to pick stuff up, it'd probably be all right.

[brithistorian.livejournal.com]

As much as I'd like to come by and socialize, since Angel is sick, I'd be trying to do a fly-by during naptime, so it would have to be just picking thing up. If I'm able to come tomorrow, I'll call before I leave and make sure it's okay.

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

Sure, that's fine. You have our number?

[brithistorian.livejournal.com]

Sure do! (Advantages of being an information packrat.)

[brithistorian.livejournal.com]

This book features the rape of Stephen Hawking.

Please tell me you're speaking metaphorically here. For the sake of my sanity, I really need for this to be a metaphor. Please?

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

Sorry.

[brithistorian.livejournal.com]

Ewww. {shudder} {cringe} {wash out brain}

[gaaldine.livejournal.com]

Have you seen the "Family Guy" episode where . . . never mind. It just made me want to cry.

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

I have never seen an episode of "Family Guy." Not any episode.

This comment does not make me want to run right out.

[gaaldine.livejournal.com]

*shrug* I would suggest that Stewie makes it worthwhile. Unfortunately, there isn't always enough Stewie.

Ed refused to let Jen see it (well, suggested she wouldn't like seeing it) when she was pregnant with Ben because of Stewie. This amused me. Actually, he may still suggest that she not see it because of Stewie as both Ben and Ellie are still awfully small.

[markgritter.livejournal.com]

I would sorta like to hang onto "To Save the Sun" and its sequel.

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

Of course. I will go fix that.

[alecaustin.livejournal.com]

Ah, Wingrove. To say that his books got pretty much everything I know about Chinese culture wrong would be an understatement.

I feel a mild amount of interest in Sorcerers of Majipoor, though I suspect I could probably borrow it from the MIT SF society if I wanted.

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

The Chinese have lots of people! Lots! And lots and lots! Of people!

I suppose that isn't really detailed enough to count as an accurate fact about Chinese culture, though....

[callunav.livejournal.com]

Out of curiosity, how do you feel about Barry Hughart?

[alecaustin.livejournal.com]

Hughart actually got the cultural details more or less spot on in Bridge of Birds, although the contents of his novels matched up to actual Chinese mythology less and less as the series went on. I also think that the quality of his writing followed more or less the same trajectory (very good at first, and less so later).

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

Send me your address. Send me your address even if you decide you don't want Sorcerers, because I ought to have it, and I have Christmas cards to send.

[cadithial.livejournal.com]

I would like the L Neil Smith series, that is assuming that the latter 2 books are set in the same universe as the first 2. I've owned and given or sold the first two a couple of times :) I'm once again in the mood to read them.

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

It's not all a series. I'll check which porphyrin snagged and get back to you with what's available.

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

The Crystal Empire and Henry Martyn are the ones still around. Do you want those?

[cadithial.livejournal.com]

Sure :) Too bad you all are violently allergic to cats. I'd like you all to run through my library.

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

I have set them aside for you. songwind also has a graphic novel from markgritter, so if you stop by on your way home from work one of these first weeks, you may have them, or I can get them to songwind when we have our outing with the girls and Mr. Spud.