At 6:49 PM -0500 11/29/00, brflgnk@cotse.com wrote:

Quoting scogan@scogan.yi.org:

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On Wed, 29 Nov 2000, brflgnk@cotse.com wrote:

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Any idea when? Amazon's had me on backorder for 15 months.

Try your local used bookstore for "True Names".

Thanks for the offer, but I'm impatient for the new expanded release. I've had a copy of the original paperback for years.

And in answer to various e-mails sent to me, including I think from this rvlpeiru@cots.com person, I don't know when the new edition is coming out. Amazon is saying March 2001. Though this is 3 years after I was told it would be coming out (when Jim Frenkel was haranguing me about working over Xmas to finish my chapter, 4 years ago!!!!!!), I think Vinge's winning of the Hugo this past year may make the 2001 date more plausible. Most publishers try to ride the coat tails of things like Hugos. My point about the old edition is that $25 is a lot to pay for what is basically a novella. I predict those who pay $25 and finish the novella two hours later will be saying "I paid $25 for _this_?" TN is a seminal novella, but people should not be expecting it to be the Second Coming. --Tim May -- (This .sig file has not been significantly changed since 1992. As the election debacle unfolds, it is time to prepare a new one. Stay tuned.)

At 11:41 PM -0500 11/29/00, Harmon Seaver wrote:

Tim May wrote:

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My point about the old edition is that $25 is a lot to pay for what is basically a novella. I predict those who pay $25 and finish the novella two hours later will be saying "I paid $25 for _this_?"

I don't know - 25 bucks doesn't get you much anymore. I spent $40 tonight in a mediocre resturant for some walleye and a couple glasses of Merlot. About 2 hours and they didn't even have a cute waitress. I'm sure the book will be much more filling.

To each their own. Spending $40 for one for dinner is a lot of money, esp. if you claim the wine was mediocre and the waitress wasn't cute. I don't spend this kind of money. Could be why I retired when I was 34. Think about it. Front-load your savings. Skip the $40 dinners and the $25 paperback novels. Take the $400 or whatever per month and invest it. --Tim May -- (This .sig file has not been significantly changed since 1992. As the election debacle unfolds, it is time to prepare a new one. Stay tuned.)