From: utzoo!decvax!ucbvax!ARPAVAX:UNKNOWN:sf-lovers Newsgroups: fa.sf-lovers Title: SF-LOVERS Digest Vol 6, #67 Article-I.D.: ucbvax.9053 Posted: Fri Oct 29 06:11:22 1982 Received: Sun Oct 31 02:31:50 1982 >From SFL@SRI-CSL Fri Oct 29 05:59:43 1982 SF-LOVERS Digest 28-Oct-82 Volume 6 : Issue 67 Today's Topics: Authors - Moorcock & Cornelius & Steel Tsar, Pangborn's A MIRROR FOR OBSERVERS T.V. - Dr. Who in Mass., L.A.? Movies - Revenge not befitting a Jedi? Misc - SF Book club satisfaction, CMU in SF ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: 27 Oct 1982 7:34:43 EDT (Wednesday) From: Andrew Malis Subject: Moorcock's "Jerry Cornelius" I own a copy of Moorcock's "The Lives and Times of Jerry Cornelius." It is a British paperback, published by Quartet Books, 27 Goodge St., London W1P 1FD, dated 1976. It was also published in hardcover by Alison and Busby Ltd. The ISBN is 0 704 31264 6. The book itself is a compilation of Cornelius stories from all sorts of magazines, from Quark to Penthouse, and from other SF anthologies, and were all originally published between 1969 and 1974. It is quite good, and well worth buying if you are a Cornelius fan. Andy ------------------------------ Date: 27 Oct 1982 13:03 PDT From: Fusco.ES at PARC-MAXC Subject: Re: SF-LOVERS Digest Vol 6, #66 "The Cornelius Chronicles" was published over a year ago. I tried to get through it, but found it slow, tedious and dull. It is an enormous volume and the first of Moorcock's works that I attempted to read. Has anyone waded completely through this book, and what did you think? Joe ------------------------------ Date: 27 Oct 1982 1624-MDT From: Evelyn Mathey Subject: MOORCOCK Someone recently mentioned 'The Steel Tsar'. Moorcock fans might be interested to know that one of the current offerings from the Science Fiction Book Club is 'The Nomad of Time' containing: 'The Warlord of the Air', 'The Land Leviathan', and 'The Steel Tsar'. Cost is $5.98 plus handling $1.39. I have recieved extremely good service from sfbc. When I wrote once and told them a book I had ordered was a real stinker and not up to their standards, they sent me a box to return the book in and credited my acount. Pretty good since I had ordered the book. I have also ordered books for friends. I asked if they could mail direct to my friend and bill me for the extra handling. They sent a card to me and my friend confirming the order, mailed direct to her and didn't charge me a cent more than when I ordered the same book for myself - and I'm sure it cost them more in handling since she is not on their mailing list. I have never had any problems with billing etc. One of the things I like is that you send back a piece of paper if you don't want a book. Many book clubs always send the books and you are stuck paying the postage to send back something you don't want. I failed to mention on the 'stinker' book above, they paid postage for the return too. Am I the only person to remember Edgar Pangborn's 'A Mirror for Observers'? I haven't noticed it on anybody's favorites list. While somewhat dated I feel this book was well written and significant to the growth of SF. Any comments? -- Evelyn ------------------------------ Date: 27 Oct 1982 1533-EDT From: Joseph M. Newcomer Subject: CMU in SF December 1982 /Analog/, p. 74, the story "My Christmas on New Hanford" by Thomas R. Dulski: "When I graduated from Carnegie-Mellon I took a job with an engineering company..." This is the first mention I have ever seen in SF of a graduate from CMU as one of the characters (they are usually from Cal Tech or MIT); I don't think I've seen mention of a "Carnegie Tech" person in older SF, although I do recall one comic book in which "Carnegie Tech" is called upon to have its computers form part of some network computing effort. So, by some metric, CMU has "made it" to a new level of recognition. The author,according to the biography on p.82, is a native of Pgh. with a degree in chemistry from Pitt. ------------------------------ Date: 27 Oct 1982 0959-PDT From: Tom Wadlow Subject: Revenge of the Jedi Date: 26 Oct 1982 1434-EDT From: TYG at MIT-OZ at MIT-MC Subject: Revenge of the Jedi While driving down Memorial Drive a few nights ago, i tuned into the NPR adaptation of Star Wars just in time to hear Obi-Wan tell Luke:: "Revenge is not the way of the Jedi. Sucombing to such base emotions leads to the dark side of the force". Hmmm. tom galloway When confronted by this exact question at Octocon (in Santa Rosa CA, just a few miles from the LucasFilm HQ), one of the LucasFilm guys said that he thought the title was especially appropriate with regards to the movie plot. A few other bits of SW trivia (according to the LucasFilm folk): RotJ will be the last SW film for Hamill, Fisher, and Ford (as far as anyone knows, since their next possible roles would be in #7, about 9 years from now) and John Williams will be doing the score for RotJ. His only other comment was that all the loose ends from the first two (the "other" and Luke's Dad and whatever else) will be cleared up in RotJ. --Tom ------------------------------ Date: Wednesday, 27 October 1982 16:20-PDT From: DOLATA at SUMEX-AIM Subject: Revenge of the Jedi Excellent point! The title 'Revenge of the Jedi' has driven me up a wall ever since I first heard it. UNLESS IT IS THE REVENGE OF THE DARK SIDE, I.E. DARTH VADER WINS!!!! ( I have a sneaking fondness for him ) ------------------------------ Date: 27 Oct 1982 0709-EDT From: Dan Tappan Subject: HGTTG in Massachusetts The first episode of HGTTG is on WGBH (channel 2) Sat 10/30 at 7:30. It's also on somewhat later that night on a couple other public channels. ------------------------------ Date: 27 OCT 1982 2055-EDT From: JDOS at MIT-AI (John Paul McNamee) Subject: Dr. Who Does any station in Los Angeles carry Dr. Who? ------------------------------ End of SF-LOVERS Digest ***********************