When your movement takes up the challenge of trashing libraries, you’ve lost the argument.
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The St. Louis Public Library’s Schlafly Branch had a number of windows smashed and books tossed. Not clear how much damage was done, but intentionally damaging a library is not exactly an action that has a history of glory.
This looks pretty good:
Comes out in October. Order it here, because… why wouldn’t you?
UPDATE: Sold.
some more books. As before, I’m starting off by selling these as a single lot. If you are interested, let me know via email or comment. If nobody wants the lot, I’ll start breaking it up in a day or two.
The total of all the individual books here is $116. If you want the lot, the price is $90 plus postage, which if you’re in the US, will probably be about $15 for media mail.
“Victory Through Air Power” by Seversky, 1942. Good shape, no dust jacket. $4.00
“Royal Air Force Flying Review,” hardbound collection, some exterior water stains but otherwise intact, Volume XVII, #1-12, 1961-2. $25.00
“US Fighters,” by Jones, 1975. $4.00
“Aviation, The complete story of mans conquest of the air,” by Gunston, 1978, hardbound, torn dust jacket. $3.00
“Huey,” by Drendel, hardbound, slightly torn dust jacket, 1983. $9.00
“Gunships A Pictorial history of Spooky,” by Davis. hardbound, dust jacket in good shape, 1982. $5.00
“Pedigree of Champions, Boeing since 1916,” softbound, Boeing, 1963. $4.00
“727 Fuel Burn Executive Summary,” Boeing, 1982. $6.00
“757 Tail Strike Assessment,” Boeing, 1990, $6.00
“Tail Strike Event Analysis,” Boeing, 1991. $6.00
“767 Advanced Composites,” Boeing, 1981. $6.00
” Large Jet Aircraft Operation on Unsurfaced Fields,” Boeing, 1964. $6.00
“Leading Edge Development Program,” General Dynamics, 1987. $6.00
“Status Report 707/727/737 Division -Renton,” Boeing, 1972. $6.00
“Boeing 747 Cargo and Baggage Systems,” Boeing, 1967. $6.00
“Soaring Eagles McDonnell-Douglas F-15,” by Scutts, 1990. Hardbound, great shape, $4.00
“Modern Warplanes,” by Richardson, hardbound, 1982, great shape. $4.00
“757 Facility and Equipment Planning,” Boeing, 1982 $6.00
Get ready to kiss productivity goodbye. Giggity:
Archive.org has most of the issues.
They also have:
and…
and…
And moving beyond magazines, they have this:
UPDATE: books have sold.
I’m selling some books. The usual approach is ebay, but I figured I’d start here with y’all. This first group I will try to sell separately *if* nobody wants the lot of them. If you buy the whole lot, it’ll be cheaper than individually. The individual prices are based on what they seem to be going for online.
If you want the whole lot, I’m selling it for $100 (sum of the individual books, $133), plus postage. If you’re in the US, it’ll be media mail, so it shouldn’t cost too much. If you want the lot, let me know via email or comment; first come, first served.
For right now, trying to sell these books as a lot. If nobody wants the whole lot within a day or so, I’ll make them available individually.
“The High Frontier” by O’Neill, larger paperback, 1982. $15
“Colonies in space,” by Heppenheimer, larger paperback, $3.50
“The Future of Flight” by Myrabo, paperback, 1985. $3.50
“Colonizing other Worlds” by Macvey, hardbound, 1984. $7
“The Exploration of Space,” by Clarke. Hardbound, dust jacket is torn, otherwise good, 1951. $3
“The high Frontier,” by O’Neill, trade paperback, 1978, $3.50
“Colonies in space,” Heppenheimer, trade paperback, 1977. $3.50
“Space Trek,” by Glenn, paperback, 1978. $5
“Moving Into Space,” paperback, 1978. $4
“The Third industrial Revolution, by Stine, paperback, 1975. $5
“Space Shuttle,” by Kaplan, hardback, 1978. $4
“Dark Sun” by Rhodes, 1996, paperback, $4
“Fallout Prediction,” US Army FM3-22, 1973. $12
“The Constructive Uses of Nuclear Explosives” by Teller, 1968. Hardcover, no dust jacket. $60
Huh.
In short: apparently the family was constantly ill, so they had the air in their home tested. It was found that they were being poisoned by formaldehyde coming off their large collection of books.
I have two questions:
Tonight I tapped out the final sentence on my tome. All told… 137,000 words, or about 450 pages in a standard novel format. Yeesh.
And then came the question… “now what.” I’m going to spend the next few months editing, which will probably mostly entail making relatively minor corrections. Then it’ll get passed on and supposedly, hopefully, read by A Science Fiction Author Y’all Have Heard Of. Hopefully he’ll not throw it in the trash. And then… who knows. Maybe it’ll be good.
So, progress on the novel has been brisk of late. The end is in sight! I’m currently sitting at about 400 novel-length pages, which is frankly probably far too long for a first novel by an unknown nobody. But, y’know, editing… For all I know, cut all the drivel out of it and it might result in a pamphlet.
But let’s say it gets published, and meets with great acclaim. Huzzah! One thing that authors seem to do is book signings. Now, at the best of times this idea fills me with an uncomfortableness. On the one hand, being the center of attention? Bleah. On the other hand, how many times have you gone to a Books-A-Barnes & Borders and saw a book signing by an author you’ve never heard of, hawking a book that seems uninteresting to you, and the author is sitting at the table, piled with books… and there ain’t nobody there. Yeesh. Talk bout a buzz kill. About the only thing more distressing than being the object of attention of a bunch of strangers is to be *ignored* at such an event. I always feel *real* bad for the very sad and lonely looking authors at such empty events.
So, California has come up with a solution: basically make book signings illegal.
If you are selling a “signed something-or-other worth more than five bucks,” guess what… onerous new book-keeping regulations:
Sellers must, among other things:
And what happens if you don’t have such records for a book signing that occurred, say, five years before the State official shows up to check your papers? Potentially tens of thousands of dollars in fines. Ta-da. No more book signings.
Fiction writing is way down on my list of priorities, but I still poke away at it from time to time. When I wrote “Going to Gimli,” the plan was that it’d be the first of three short stories that would form one overall story arc, with the insane notion that I might actually turn it into a novel. After finishing “Gimli” I wrote one complete story that *wasn’t* part of the original plan, but it’s a direct sequel to Gimli. I guess it’d be story 1.5 of the three planned. I’m now something like halfway through story 2; it’s going slowly.
“Gimli” clocks in at about 30,000 words. Story 1.5 (tentative placeholder title is “Run Spot Run”) is about 25,000 words; story 2 (tentatively “Return to Origin”) is so far about 25,500 words. All told about 80,500 words. Novels are generally about 300 words per page… so I’m already at about 270 pages. That *used* to be a respectable length for a full novel, but thanks to the likes of Stephen King and J.K. Rowling, it might be considered only a short one. Still… I was surprised to find out how much I’ve got.
I suspect that a good editor would go through my manuscript with pruning shears, a chain saw, a flame thrower and eventually a tactical nuclear device, removing perhaps half of it. But given that I’m technically only half done, when finished it’ll actually be a full novel’s worth of stuff. Whether it’ll be *good* stuff remains to be seen.
If interested, see my first story “Mass Disappearance,” followed by “Going to Gimli,” and then two story fragments, “Launch” and “A Matter of Some Gravity.”
Heh.
