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David Johnson
01-24-2011
04:30 UT
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Jon Crocker wrote:
> I know that the items in the collections were named pretty fast
> and furiously in "Murder in the Gunroom", but were any of the
> the listed pieces likely to have been made in Birmingham?
Don't know about ~Murder~--though I suspect there are a few
aficionados
here who can help us with it--but there are at least two items in the
"Piper collection" appended to the end of the Restless Oaks catalogue
that apparently have a Birmingham pedigree: #7 Enfield Style
Confederate Musket with "Edward Middleton, Gunmaker,
Birmingham"
engraved on the stock; and #30 English Webly 'Bull Dog' Revolver with
"P. Webly and Son, London and Birmingham" engraved on the barrel.
David
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"Naturally.
Foxx Travis would expect a soul to be carried in a holster." - Miles
Gilbert (H. Beam Piper), "Oomphel in the Sky"
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Jon Crocker  01-24-2011
01:41 UT
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I know that the items in the collections were named pretty fast and
furiously in "Murder in the Gunroom", but were any of the the listed
pieces likely to have been made in Birmingham?
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Jim "Rhino" Sparr 01-22-2011
00:15 UT
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Martini-Henry rifles too? I'd think the Kynock style 500 grain nitro cartridge would stop a damnthing for sure.
Wonder if Ingermann wound up as a "merchant of death"?
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Jon
01-21-2011
22:22 UT
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Isn't that where BSA was?
Good to know our great-to-the-nth grandkids will still be able to get Webleys for the great-to-the-nth remake of Zulu...
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David Johnson
01-21-2011
21:43 UT
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We know from ~Uller Uprising~ that Volund was the home of
Federation- era small arms manufacturers but I just came across a
reference in ~Fuzzies and Other People~ which mentions the next port
of call for the ~City of Konkrook~ aboard which Hugo Ingermann flees
Zarathustra: New Birmingham on Volund. Leaves me wondering if there
is also a New Birmingham equivalent to Old Birmingham's Gun Quarter. .
. .
David
--
"Naturally. Foxx Travis would expect a soul
to be carried in a holster." - Miles Gilbert (H. Beam Piper), "Oomphel
in the Sky"
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John Carr
01-16-2011
23:25 UT
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Now that the H. Beam Piper Memorial Headstone project has been
successfully completed (see News for a photo of the new tombstone),
we've spruced up the H. Beam Piper Memorial website adding several new
features. Of particular interest to this List is the Deleted Scenes tab,
which presents the first of more than eight or nine chapters I had to
delete from “H. Beam Piper: A Biography” due to space limitations.
McFarland wanted the book cut by 25% and some of these choices over what
and where to cut were very difficult to make.
In fact, one of
the best of these chapters was California Dreamin’ which told a
fascinating tale of Mike Knerr’s jaunt to California to labor in the
mines of soft-core porn. However, it was tangential to the Piper story,
although Piper shows up at the end, so it was the first to go.
I
believe these additions will help flesh out H. Beam Piper’s life and
story, even for those who have not read the biography. The first deleted
chapter is entitled The Deerstalkers and deals with Beam’s hunting and
his attempts to enlist to his best friend, Ferd Coleman, into his merry
band of hunters. Portions of this chapter appeared in the book, but more
than 60% was cut from the original manuscript. I plan to add more
chapters every couple of months until they are all featured on the site
at www.h-beampiper.com
Next up will be an expansion of my piece
on the Terro-Human Future History that first appeared in the Ace Books
edition of “Federation.”
John F. Carr
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Jon Crocker 01-12-2011
05:14 UT
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Here's an interesting sourcebook from Steve Jackson Games:
http://www.sjgames.com/gurps/books/infiniteworlds/
Sounds
kinda like Paratime, only with another 'home time line' that doesn't
like the first. Not surprising, since Kalvan is used as a prime example
in the online bibliography:
http://www.sjgames.com/gurps/books/infinit...s/bibliography.html
Best of all the bibliography helps people buy the books! Hope a few more people discover Piper this way.
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David Johnson
01-07-2011
16:34 UT
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Life-size Fuzzy at eBay!
You got to love this:
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=280606626958
Good luck,
David
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"Why not everybody make friend, have fun, make help, be good?" - Diamond Grego (H. Beam Piper), _Fuzzy_Sapiens_
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Jim "Rhino" Sparr 01-04-2011
02:08 UT
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Back to the Travis Fox/Foxx Travis thing, which got me started on
thinking about correspondence and whatnot. I know Beam was in contact
with several of Campbell's other authors. Any evidence you know of that
he and Andre (Alice Mary) Norton knew each other? The character names
are a little close for sheer coincidence. Edited 01-04-2011 03:09
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David Johnson
01-03-2011
19:56 UT
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Jim "Rhino" Sparr writes:
>Interesting. I'm going to have to find a copy of that.
>
>Does anyone have enough of Piper's correspondence to publish a
>collection?
Carr's biography is the unparalleled source for this sort of thing:
http://www.mcfarlandpub.com/book-2.php?id=978-0-7864-3375-9
David
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"A
girl can punch any kind of a button a man can, and a lot of them knew
what buttons to punch, and why." - Conn Maxwell (H. Beam Piper),
_The_Cosmic_Computer_ ~
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Jim "Rhino" Sparr 01-03-2011
19:13 UT
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Interesting. I'm going to have to find a copy of that.
Does anyone have enough of Piper's correspondence to publish a collection?
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David Johnson
01-03-2011
12:57 UT
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Jim "Rhino" Sparr wrote:
> Oh, BTW, ego Latinam percepto. I think you want to change that
> to "intacta" soonest.
Well, I guess I should add a "sic" as I am merely quoting Carr
quoting Knerr quoting Piper. (See page 78 of Carr's Piper biography.)
David
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"Computermen don't like to hear computers called smart." - Conn Maxwell (H. Beam Piper), "Graveyard of Dreams"
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Jim "Rhino" Sparr 01-03-2011
05:30 UT
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Oh, BTW, ego Latinam percepto. I think you want to change that to "intacta" soonest.
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Jim "Rhino" Sparr 01-03-2011
04:25 UT
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Thanks, David. That satisfies my curiosity for the moment. Your
posting also gave me a line I'm going to have to use sooner or later:
"He
pulled the furs up around them more snugly, hugged her lovingly to his
chest, and in the English she didn't understand, murmured 'Well, sugar,
the end has come'".
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David Johnson
01-03-2011
04:06 UT
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Jim "Rhino" Sparr wrote:
> I'm currently rereading (and immensely enjoying) Andre Norton's
> /Galactic Derelict/, which contains the character Travis Fox.
> Is this homage to Foxx Travis, or the other way around. Any
> clues, guys?
Foxx Travis first appeared in "Oomphel in the Sky," published in ~Analog~ in December 1960. That was a year after the first
publication of Norton's ~Galactic Derelict~. So I'm guessing "the other way around." ;)
Speak on, Grandfather of Grandfathers,
David
--
"Heinlein can do what he likes. I prefer to keep my heroine
_virgo_intacto_ until the end." - H. Beam Piper
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Jim "Rhino" Sparr 01-02-2011
04:28 UT
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I'm currently rereading (and immensely enjoying) Andre Norton's
/Galactic Derelict/, which contains the character Travis Fox. Is this
homage to Foxx Travis, or the other way around. Any clues, guys?
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David Johnson
01-01-2011
22:23 UT
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Jim Rhino Sparr wrote:
> I believe that this thing is a viral spambot that infests your
> computer, and then sends trash out to the internet. Something
> similar can steal your e-mail ID and then use it even after
> you've rooted the virus out. It sends the data to where it came
> from. I know this because I keep getting spammed from one of my
> Yahoo contacts, who's scrubbed her computer and changed her
> account.
>
[snip]
>
> Check your computers, folks. It found this site somehow.
Ours
is just one of many mailing lists hosted at QuickTopic so it may not
be that one of us has provided the avenue for this intrusion but, in
any event, let me again encourage everyone to subscribe to the mailing
list if you have not yet done so. If the spam messages continue we
will move to "subscription only."
Thanks,
David
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"Computermen don't like to hear computers called smart." - Conn Maxwell (H. Beam Piper), "Graveyard of Dreams"
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Jim "Rhino" Sparr 01-01-2011
02:30 UT
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"Zombies" is a quote from RAH, but my military grade protection can beat your military grade protection. Nyaah, nyaah, nyaah!
Happy New Year to everyone!!
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Jackson Russell
12-31-2010
23:57 UT
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Hey! Who U callin a zombie? I got military grade protection here!
Zombie! Hmph!
braaaiiins...
Jack
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