Date: Fri, 12 Mar 2010 15:24:24 -0500
From: "Michael Walsh" <mjw at press.jhu.edu>
To: <WSFAlist at KeithLynch.net>
Subject: [WSFA] Re: Something for the Niven fans
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at KeithLynch.net>

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>>>> <samlubell at verizon.net> 3/12/2010 3:20 PM >>>
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>Mar 12, 2010 07:44:51 PM, WSFAlist at KeithLynch.net wrote:
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>> mark 3/11/2010 10:36 PM >>>
>>Samuel Lubell wrote:
>>> mark wrote:
>>>> Michael Walsh wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> http://tinyurl.com/ya9bm5p
>>>>>
>>>> I don't think so. Does it either come with a magnifying glass, like =
=
>the
>>>> 2-volume OED, or a hand truck to carry it around?
>>>>
>>> Um this is the BEST of Larry Niven, not the COMPLETE Larry Niven. =
>27
>>> stories in 500 pages works out to 18.5 pages per story. So I doubt =
>that
>>> microscopic print will be employed.
>>
>>>I misunderstood. The page the link led to - and I only glanced at it - =
=
>looked
>>>like it was all his novels in one volume.
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>>In 1996 Robert Jordan was Balticon GoH.
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>>Hal Haag & I came up a Faux Press advt for the Balticon souvenir book:
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>>The one volume complete Wheel of Time! I think it was a large print =
>edition too.
>
>>mjw
>
>This would be the Readers Digest Super-Condensed Books version, no doubt.

Nope.  Complete text!

There was a caveat at the bottom of the advt that the publisher was not =
responsible for any bodily harm caused by attempting to lift the book.  I =
think the advt also stated "Truss not included".

mjw