Date: Fri, 04 Aug 2006 15:05:55 -0400
From: "Michael Walsh" <MJW at press.jhu.edu>
To: <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>

> dicconf at radix.net 8/4/2006 2:55:31 PM >>>
>
>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!"

Back when dinosaurs wandered the Earth I recall muttering... "a 10 meg
harddrive.. .wow, it'll take forever to fill that..."

mjw