Date: Fri, 4 Aug 2006 14:55:31 -0400 (EDT)
From: dicconf <dicconf at radix.net>
To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at keithlynch.net>
cc: wsfa-forum at yahoogroups.com
Subject: [WSFA] Re: Another prediction falls flat...
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at KeithLynch.net>

On Fri, 4 Aug 2006, Michael Walsh wrote:

> from the latest Ansible:
>
> "Speculative Finance Dept, 1978: `... now is a bad, bad time to start
> collecting some modern SF authors, at least if you have any
> consideration for your wallet. And who knows when the crest of the wave
> will curl over, the whole field of SF be "whited out"? In ten years'
> time the Walker first hardcover edition of LeGuin's Left Hand of
> Darkness which I saw recently catalogued at $50.00 may fetch only half
> that ...' (George Locke, Science Fiction First Editions, 1978) "
>
> The cheapest 1st editon listed on www.abebooks.com is an ex-library for
> $300.00.  Highest price is a mere $2158.00

Another prediction right up there with "nobody will ever need more than
64K of memory!"

-- Dick Eney