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Jan. 12th, 2002 10:50 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
andrewduckerLet it be known that shoud someone wish to buy me this CD I'd be happy to offer them my first born child as soon as I have one to get rid of.
Vernor Vinge is one of my fave Sci-Fi writers, mostly for Fire upon the Deep, A Deepness in the Sky and Marooned in Realtime (although he also invented cyberspace in "True Names"). My favourite of his books in Fire upon the Deep and it was made available on CD (along with all the other nominees for the 93 Hugo awards). What was special about it was that it came with all of his annotations concerning the writing of the book and its background.
Sadly, the CD is out of print and will not be reprinted due to copyright issues (there's too many people to ever make it worthwhile). The annotations may well be reprinted at some point, but that's not certain.
Every so often someone makes one of the CDs available, and in this case someone has just found a small pile of them and put them on Ebay (all profits to the Electronic Frontier Foundation.
If it wasn't for my extreme poverty at the moment, I'd soooo be bidding for this. Hopefully someday more will become available when I have more money.
Alas.
Vernor Vinge is one of my fave Sci-Fi writers, mostly for Fire upon the Deep, A Deepness in the Sky and Marooned in Realtime (although he also invented cyberspace in "True Names"). My favourite of his books in Fire upon the Deep and it was made available on CD (along with all the other nominees for the 93 Hugo awards). What was special about it was that it came with all of his annotations concerning the writing of the book and its background.
Sadly, the CD is out of print and will not be reprinted due to copyright issues (there's too many people to ever make it worthwhile). The annotations may well be reprinted at some point, but that's not certain.
Every so often someone makes one of the CDs available, and in this case someone has just found a small pile of them and put them on Ebay (all profits to the Electronic Frontier Foundation.
If it wasn't for my extreme poverty at the moment, I'd soooo be bidding for this. Hopefully someday more will become available when I have more money.
Alas.
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Date: 2002-01-15 04:12 am (UTC)No longer possible
Date: 2002-01-15 04:51 am (UTC)I'll have to rely on selling body parts for the moment...