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[yendi]

So, just two days after technomom mentioned the Liaden books (which I'd never heard of), they got brought up again on the Dragaera listserv. I suspect I'm going to have to hunt them down. Although I'm inclined to try to find the originals, as Meisha Merlin is likely to render them unreadable.

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[technomom]

The originals have been out of print for a very long time. The Meisha Merlin ones really aren't that tough. Start with the omnibus edition of the first three books, Partners in Necessity, but you'll want to have Plan B and I Dare on hand (plots move quickly between those). I'd loan you our copiesy, but I think they're on loan elsewhere at the moment. The whole series is defitely on the short list of books we for which we need multiple copies.

I seem to recall that there are Ace editions of some of the books coming out, too, but I don't think they've gone all the way back to the first trilogy.

Oh - Pilot's Choice is a two-volume omnibus of Local Custom and

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The originals have been out of print for a very long time. The Meisha Merlin ones really aren't that tough. Start with the omnibus edition of the first three books, <u>Partners in Necessity</u>, but you'll want to have <u>Plan B</u> and <u>I Dare</u> on hand (plots move quickly between those). I'd loan you our copiesy, but I think they're on loan elsewhere at the moment. The whole series is defitely on the short list of books we for which we need multiple copies.

I seem to recall that there are Ace editions of some of the books coming out, too, but I don't think they've gone all the way back to the first trilogy.

Oh - <u>Pilot's Choice</u> is a two-volume omnibus of <u>Local Custom</u> and <Scout's Progress</U. Those two books take place one generation before <u>Partners in Necessity</u>, but I don't think I'd start with them. I'm sure both of those are out in Ace editions.

[yendi]

Thanks -- I'll print this out and bring it with us when we hit B&N this weekend (since credit is a good thing).

A had another sign, too -- logged into Amazon to rate Syne Mitchell's Technogenisis (which both shadesong and I really liked), and Amazon immediate said that since I liked it so much, I should read Plan B. It's a bloody conspiracy, I say!

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[technomom]

I hope B&N has the books in stock so you can use the gift card. Borders frequently doesn't have them, although they say they can get them (takes a ridiculous amount of time, though). SF & Mystery Bookshop always has copies on the shelves - makes sense as Stephe Pagel used to work there (might still work there, although I haven't seen him there in a while).

[technomom]

Now I need to go find the Mitchell book. Is her first one good too?

[yendi]

Well, I've also printed my Amazon Wish list -- I'll get something at B&N with the credit, no matter what. :-)

I love the SF+Mystery bookshop, but I absolutely hate their location. Being both non-Marta accessable and off the beaten path has probably cost them hundreds, if not thousands, in my business alone.

[yendi]

Haven't read it yet, but it's also on the list of books we'll be looking for. :-)

I did find her out-of-date webpage at http://www.sff.net/people/syne/index.htp --some interesting stuff (I can't imagine having been at college at 13), but at least two years out of date (no mention of Technogenesis, even).

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[technomom]

I didn't realize SF&M was non-Marta accessible. But I don't much like the location either. It is easier to park there than their old location in the Virginia-Highlands area, but I'm not nearly as comfortable with the neighborhood.

[voltbang.livejournal.com]

I am of the opinion that it's their location that is causing them to go out of business. It's a wierd neighborhood, and there's not much in the way of retail establishments to draw walk-ins. They need to find a strip mall in the subs or something to get better business. People aren't going to go out of their way to find them enough to keep them in business, and they aren't open when the shiny gothy people are heading over to the chamber. They really aren't open when the horny people are heading to velvet heavan. I guess they might maybe get a walk in from the doggy people going to barking hounds. I don't know anything else in the neighborhood.

[yendi]

There used to at least be that Titan next door, which kind of created a feedback loop for me to spend money in, but now, with nothing really around, it's definitely hurting them. And they know it -- when they had the huge financial crisis last year, they pretty much acknowledged the location issue in one of their emails. A mall location, or at least something near a mall, would be so much better for them.