Wow, I'm impressed. What a lot of work. Some years ago I spent hours and hours combing places for Van Vogt's complete works so I know how much trouble you...
Deb
debreed@...
Oct 1, 2001 12:15 pm
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Isaac, Thanks for the excellent bibliography. I see that you listed a lot of French translations, but missed others. So here are some links: ...
Endre Zsoldos
e_zsoldos@...
Oct 1, 2001 6:13 pm
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Thanks, Deb. If you're referring to the Yahoo van Vogt eGroup thing, then yes I do have an indirect link to join it. Magnus is the fellow who started the...
Isaac Wilcott
icshi@...
Oct 1, 2001 9:18 pm
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Thank you. Bless you sir, bless you! I've been looking for such links, but found very few. However, I should make clear that the only reason I included the ...
Isaac Wilcott
icshi@...
Oct 1, 2001 9:23 pm
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Hmmm. On second thought, maybe it would be good to have another file on my site that lists foreign translations. Yes, I think that would be nice. It would...
Isaac Wilcott
icshi@...
Oct 1, 2001 9:32 pm
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Hello again. I may seem a bit silly here, but the Database has just been updated to 1.1. I corrected quite a few errors and omissions in entry listings which...
Isaac Wilcott
icshi@...
Oct 2, 2001 1:17 pm
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Words of wisdom from an Irish Catholic scholar, a priest, who received his Ph.D. in philosophical theology from the University of Tubingen in 1990. His ...
George Gilbert
george_w_gilbert@...
Oct 2, 2001 5:35 pm
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OK, here are a few more links: Dutch: consist.horizon.nl/kees.buis/naslag/aut/v/vogta/VOGTa.htm Swedish: ...
Endre Zsoldos
e_zsoldos@...
Oct 2, 2001 6:19 pm
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Thanks, Endre. I'll look into them later today. And thank you for offering to help with the Hungarian information. From what I've studied Hungarian is a...
Isaac Wilcott
icshi@...
Oct 2, 2001 8:44 pm
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... Yes, I bought the thing a month or so ago and it had to be special ordered. I'm still eagerly awaiting its arrival....
Isaac Wilcott
icshi@...
Oct 2, 2001 8:44 pm
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This post is from almost two days ago; when it didn't show up yesterday I just thought "oh well." Then the bloody thing pops up. Oh well. Anyway, last night...
Isaac Wilcott
icshi@...
Oct 2, 2001 8:44 pm
4228
I couldn't find the reference elsewhere, so it must've been the A.E. van Vogt audio tape (because I listened to it the other day), so here goes: I was...
George Gilbert
george_w_gilbert@...
Oct 4, 2001 6:11 pm
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I just saw the most wonderful thing: a signed first edition of "The Book of Ptath"! eBay just put it up today, and four people have already bid on it; it's...
Isaac Wilcott
icshi@...
Oct 4, 2001 9:57 pm
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I've updated my website to include a new section: the Van Vogt Synopsis Center. This is a page where I hope to someday have synopses for every book and story...
Isaac Wilcott
icshi@...
Oct 4, 2001 11:36 pm
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In a message dated 10/4/01 6:02:34 PM Eastern Daylight Time, icshi@... writes: << I just saw the most wonderful thing: a signed first edition of...
lucylou98@...
Oct 5, 2001 3:00 am
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Yesterday, I mentioned that I had heard or read that the language in The World of Null-A had been tinkered with by AEVV's publisher. Here's the quote in...
George Gilbert
george_w_gilbert@...
Oct 5, 2001 1:41 pm
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Excerpt from James Gunn, “The Science of Science-Fiction Writing”, Scarecrow Press, Inc., Lanham, Maryland, 2000, pages 78-79: Science fiction...is a...
George Gilbert
george_w_gilbert@...
Oct 7, 2001 7:51 pm
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Thank you for posting that George. Wonderful piece on the differences between SF and fantasy. Lisa = 3. 14159 26535 89793 23846... Yes. God is the Ultimate...
lucylou98@...
Oct 7, 2001 11:18 pm
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.George wrote : >>>>James Gunn, " But they belong to distinctly different methods of looking at those worlds: fantasy is non-realistic; science fiction is ...
Deb
debreed@...
Oct 8, 2001 6:05 am
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In a message dated 10/8/2001 2:05:34 AM, debreed@... writes: << picked nitless. >> . . . . better than being nitted pickless, there, pickles . . . a minor...
cooflag@...
Oct 8, 2001 12:42 pm
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<<<Thank you for posting that George. Wonderful piece on the differences between SF and fantasy. Lisa>>> You're very welcome! George ...
George Gilbert
george_w_gilbert@...
Oct 8, 2001 3:45 pm
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<<<Oh, and, George, last time I mentioned this on one of those other lists, one of the nitpickers made a GENERAL observation that anyone who used the...
George Gilbert
george_w_gilbert@...
Oct 8, 2001 4:12 pm
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"one of the nitpickers made a GENERAL observation that anyone who used the (pejorative) term "sci fi" wasn't even a true fan." I've always thought this was the...
Dominic Lopez
dominic@...
Oct 8, 2001 6:11 pm
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<<<I've always thought this was the biggest non-issue in all of literature. I can't believe how upset some people get about it. Harlan Ellison in particular...
George Gilbert
george_w_gilbert@...
Oct 8, 2001 8:28 pm
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... used ... Harlan ... Sci-Fi was used so much as a put-down when I was in my teens and twenties that I still flinch when I hear or read it. I find it hard ...
rabrooks@...
Oct 9, 2001 12:57 am
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... that, in fact, seems to be its' own separate subfandom. I've been at conventions before where a roomful of us would start telling Ellison anecdotes along...
john barrick
astroboy@...
Oct 9, 2001 1:52 am
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... As the story goes, Forry is responsible for it. And Ellison has made such a big deal about it over the years that I'm sure Mr. Ackerman has regretted it...
john barrick
astroboy@...
Oct 9, 2001 2:00 am
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In a message dated 10/8/2001 10:49:20 PM, rabrooks@... writes: << 4E Ackerman coined the term sci-fi >> . . . and then there's: scythe phi psy phigh sigh...
cooflag@...
Oct 9, 2001 12:54 pm
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<<<. . . and then there's: scythe phi psy phigh sigh fie cy fyi but I digress . . . Burgoon "Bi Stye" Spitoon>>> Thus, would tales told while drunk be...
George Gilbert
george_w_gilbert@...
Oct 9, 2001 2:32 pm
4246
In a message dated 10/9/2001 10:37:23 AM, george_w_gilbert@... writes: << Who coined the term "speculative fiction", then? A tautology if ever there ...
