Damn! I'm looking for Quark 4! BTW, I have a spare "reading condition" copy of Quark 3... if someone on the list needs a copy (and lives in the USA) let me...
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mattpierard_2000
mattpierard_...
Nov 9, 2005 3:58 am
In "Nova", Katin is composing a journal about his life to date on a digital recorder that barely seemed capable as recently as 15 years ago. A thousand years...
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Tim Walters
slawmusic
Nov 9, 2005 7:05 am
... If Moore's Law holds out, it will be as archaic as flint arrowheads are now, perhaps more so. ... 60,000,000,000 (bytes on iPod) / 8000 (bytes per second...
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Callum James
portsmouthgu...
Nov 9, 2005 10:21 am
Hi, ... At least 17 copies of Quark/4 on www.abebooks.com priced at 4 USD and upwards Hopes this helps Callum...
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Fred Kiesche
godel2escher...
Nov 9, 2005 7:21 pm
Greetings: While Katin only seemed to use his recorder for sound, maybe it had more capability than that? Visuals as well for another person? It kind of...
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david moses fruchter
dmf23@...
Nov 9, 2005 7:22 pm
To my mind, one of Delany's most prescient ideas was the General Information system from Stars In My Pocket. Here's a recent step in that direction: ...
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Ron Henry
ron_gmail
Nov 9, 2005 10:15 pm
... I wonder. The limiting factor is likely to be the capacity of the human user to take advantage of the capacity and complexity of such a device, and it's...
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Ray Davis
kokonino_ray
Nov 21, 2005 2:27 pm
I've been wanting to hear the 1967 dramatization of "The Star-Pit" for a decade or three myself, and so I'm very glad to announce its digitization, along with...
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Ron Henry
ron_gmail
Nov 21, 2005 2:48 pm
Thanks so much for posting this. I've been wanting to hear it for a long time as well! Ron Henry...
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Lavelle Porter
lavelleporter
Nov 23, 2005 3:34 am
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9A0DEFD9123EF932A25752C1A9639C8B63 November 11, 2005 Art in Review; Ann Lislegaard By KEN JOHNSON Bellona...
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Henrick P�lsson
spentomad
Dec 2, 2005 12:47 pm
Hi Maybe this is a wierd Q but I woundring if there is a blogg about Samuel R Delany and his work. After now I have reading many of his work, right now I do...
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zvi_delany_list
Dec 18, 2005 4:34 pm
I have here beside me a copy of Samuel R. Delany's new book, 'About Writing'. Amazon.com sent it to me a few days ago, and even though I'm in Canada, it did...
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RicBest@...
ricbest2001
Dec 21, 2005 7:02 pm
Hello All, Amazon is only listing the hardcover edition of About Writing which is available in Janurary. Anyone know how to order the paperback? Thanks, Ric ...
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Steve M
chimaxx
Dec 22, 2005 12:10 am
... That's odd, Ric: When I search Amazon, I find only the paperback edition. This link should lead you right to it: ...
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RicBest@...
ricbest2001
Dec 22, 2005 5:02 pm
Thanks ! I found it today at my local Boarders. A nice gift to myself! Everyone have a ghreat Holiday! Ric [Non-text portions of this message have been...
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Henrick Pålsson
spentomad
Dec 24, 2005 1:43 pm
I reading now The Mad Man I have only read 50 pages so far, but I wonder how biograhical The Mad Man is. I know its fiction, but is some thing about Delanys...
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Steve M
chimaxx
Dec 25, 2005 3:24 am
... I think that's one of those questions that rarely is of much value with fiction. As you read Delany's explanation of "Write what you know" in his book...
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Amy Harlib
aharlib
Dec 26, 2005 3:52 am
aharlib@... SOLSTICE AND NEW YEAR CHEER! MAY THINGS GET BETTER IN THE FUTURE AS WE CONTINUE TO WORK FOR POSITIVE CHANGE. LOVE, AMY [Non-text portions...
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Pete Lenz
sinisterra23
Dec 27, 2005 1:50 am
I just purchased my copy of 'About Writing' this past Saturday. It's quite a nice, hefty volume. I've been waiting for the release of the book for several...
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richard racheter
frost3fairy
Dec 30, 2005 12:59 pm
Does the concept of "sex with children" (or minors) bother me? I confess the answer really eludes me. Social standards change drastically -- as do the...
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henrik strömberg
kawayama2000
Dec 30, 2005 2:04 pm
... and not just over time - they change from place to place, too. in sweden the age of consent is 15, and you can drink alcohol from the age of 18. i am sure...
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Wade T Smith
morbius
Dec 30, 2005 3:21 pm
... For any purpose, that is too narrow a use of 'sex'. Sex is also, by itself, a form of power. And while I agree with you that any use of it in a control...
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Steve M
chimaxx
Dec 30, 2005 3:51 pm
... I probably shouldn't have begun with that short declarative sentence. But I don't think it's a particularly valuable question to be asking when you've...
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Henrick Pålsson
spentomad
Dec 30, 2005 5:16 pm
Steve M <lists@...> skrev: I think that's one of those questions that rarely is of much value with fiction. As you read Delany's explanation of "Write...
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James Comer
jcomer2001
Dec 30, 2005 9:53 pm
Hey, --On that same note, it genuinely bothers me how much sex with kids (or minors) pops up in Delany's books. I've read maybe ten of his books at this point...
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Joseph Zitt
jzitt
Dec 31, 2005 10:09 am
... My hunch here is that for a while Delany saw it as testing another taboo. But he had clearly changed his mind by the time of the republication of... um......
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vpoleganov
Dec 31, 2005 10:51 am
... It bothers me a little. But I've always thought it's Delany's way to give a voice to every character. What I see in most of his works (and rarely in those...
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henrik strömberg
kawayama2000
Dec 31, 2005 2:37 pm
... as i remember it, it was the publishers that requested that no minors were to have sex in the book. that is why delany added 100 years to their ages. hs --...
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Steve M
chimaxx
Dec 31, 2005 3:51 pm
... I believe that's true. It was in any case a specific reaction to some new regulations that had come from The Meese Commission on Pornography under...
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Steve M
chimaxx
Dec 31, 2005 4:00 pm
... I was an early reader of Delany--started reading him in junior high at about 13 years old, with Triton and Empire Star and Babel-17. I read Dhalgren in...
