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Lawrence Feldman
04-30-2012
18:53 UT
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I have redone and expanded my Head of Susana to more than 200 pages. It
is now ready for submission, somewhere, if I can get around to looking
for a publisher. Currently I am working on a non fiction "Escape" book
(on the escape of Jews from unoccupied France through Spain to Portugal
and thence the United States between 1940 and 1942) that is taking most
of my time. That second book is 326 pages and currently is being
checked for footnotes etc. Any one who has any thoughts on the Head of
Susana send me an e-mail at Lawrenc846@gmail.com
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David "PiperFan" Johnson  04-29-2012
15:25 UT
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~
Modernized "Omnilingual"
I've run across a "modernized"
version of "Omnilingual" created by John Cowan. His edits "are intended
to modernize the work, to help the [contemporary] reader not stumble
over the details." I've posted a link on the Fan Fiction page at
Zarthani.net:
http://www.zarthani.net/h_beam_piper_development.htm
Enjoy,
David
--
"In
truth, you don't need any kind of license or permission to do fan
fiction, as long as you are not selling it." -- Ginjer Buchanan, Ace
Books
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David Johnson
04-29-2012
00:41 UT
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John,
> It seems that Ace Books started reprinting Piper's books (and
> not just the ones they'd printed originally) in the early 70s,
> almost 3 years before they "purchased" the Piper Estate! Ace
> republished Little Fuzzy, Fuzzy Sapiens, and The Fuzzy Papers
> in 1976 and 1977.
Ace
apparently did not show a printing date for ~Little Fuzzy~ until the
_seventh_ printing in Jun 1983 even though the first printing was out in
time for Fred to review it in the February 1976 issue of Richard
Delap's ~F&SF Review~
On the other hand, the date of Ace's first printing of ~Fuzzy Sapiens~ _was_ identified as June 1976.
Perhaps
they were being cautious with ~Little Fuzzy~ but were a bit more
comfortable identifying ~Fuzzy Sapiens~ because they'd abandoned ~The
Other Human Race~ title of the original Avon edition. (The first Ace
paperback edition of ~The Fuzzy Papers~ was printed--with
identification--in September 1980.)
> I know for a fact that Ace didn't purchase the Piper Estate
> until 1979,
Ace
didn't identify the printing date of ~Space Viking~ until the fourth
printing in December 1980 but the first printing was reviewed in the
January 1977 issue of ~Locus~! Ace didn't identify the printing date of
~Lord Kalvan~ until the third printing in June 1981 but the first
printing was reviewed in the July 1977 issue of ~Locus~.
Still,
there are so many other errors and missing information for so many of
the Ace editions--for example, your ~Empire~ anthology had at least five
printings while apparently using only two ISBNs--that I suspect these
are simple errors of omission rather than commission.
Be well,
David
--
"We
talk glibly about ten to the hundredth power, but emotionally we still
count, 'One, Two, Three, Many.'" - Otto Harkaman (H. Beam Piper),
_Space_Viking_
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Otherwhen@aol.com
04-28-2012
00:30 UT
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Hi David:
The situation with the Ace Piper reprints is more
'interesting' than you know. When Fred Patton was updating his Fuzzy
Story (see
_www.h-beampiper.com_ (http://www.h-beampiper.com) for the current version) for my Piper site, I was fascinated by some of his copyright data.
It
seems that Ace Books started reprinting Piper's books (and not just the
ones they'd printed originally) in the early 70s, almost 3 years
before they "purchased" the Piper Estate! Ace republished Little
Fuzzy, Fuzzy Sapiens, and The Fuzzy Papers in 1976 and 1977.
Hmm?
I
know for a fact that Ace didn't purchase the Piper Estate until 1979,
since I have a letter from James Patrick Baen regarding Full-Cycle and
When in the Course..." dated March 19, 1979. These were the two
"unpublished" stories they'd received from the heir, Charles Pipe. Jim
fired them off to Jerry right after he received them for his perusal.
I suspect the Fuzzy reprints were done in the Aaaron Wyn
tradition of -- if the author's dead, print it until someone complains
-- like they did with the "Lord of the Ring Series." After Don
Wollheim and Terry Carr left Ace Books, 1971 and 1972 respectively,
there was an editorial vacuum at Ace. Pat LoBrutto was the only Ace
editor I could locate who was there during the critical period of 1974
to 1977. I wonder if Pat could shed some light on this....?
All the best,
John
Help with Ace Reprints
Piper Fans:
I've
added a page at Zarthani.net which attempts to identify all of the
printings of the Ace reissues of Beam's work in the late
'70s and '80s:
http://www.zarthani.net/ace_reprints.htm
As you can see there were a lot of printings of each of the Ace
reissues but Ace didn't always do a good job of identifying
them. Sometime the printing wasn't identified. Sometimes the
ISBN was invalid or the same one was used on more than one
printing. Sometimes the book had a printer's key number line
but often it did not. What bibliographic information was
included was inconsistent from printing to printing and from one book edition to another.
I've been able to get my hands on a fair number of the Ace
printings--identified on the Web page as being part of the
"Zarthani.net" hoard--but I would appreciate your help in
gathering details about those printings not in the "hoard." If
you're so inclined--and can find them--I would appreciate it if
you would look at your own Ace reissues and let me know any
bibliographic information which is not shown on the "reprints"
Web page. Please send any comments to me by e-mail at "piperfan (at) zarthani (dot) net" rather than posting them here on the
discussion forum. (Not everyone subscribed here will be
interested to know the publication date of the sixth printing of ~Fuzzy Sapiens~! or if the third printing of ~Paratime~ had a
printer's key number line~)
Thanks in advance for your help.
Down Styphon!
David
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David "PiperFan" Johnson 04-27-2012
23:20 UT
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Help with Ace Reprints
Piper Fans:
I've added a page
at Zarthani.net which attempts to identify all of the printings of the
Ace reissues of Beam's work in the late '70s and '80s:
http://www.zarthani.net/ace_reprints.htm
As
you can see there were a lot of printings of each of the Ace reissues
but Ace didn't always do a good job of identifying them. Sometime the
printing wasn't identified. Sometimes the ISBN was invalid or the same
one was used on more than one printing. Sometimes the book had a
printer's key number line but often it did not. What bibliographic
information was included was inconsistent from printing to printing and
from one book edition to another.
I've been able to get my hands
on a fair number of the Ace printings--identified on the Web page as
being part of the "Zarthani.net" hoard--but I would appreciate your help
in gathering details about those printings not in the "hoard." If
you're so inclined--and can find them--I would appreciate it if you
would look at your own Ace reissues and let me know any bibliographic
information which is not shown on the "reprints" Web page. Please send
any comments to me by e-mail at "piperfan (at) zarthani (dot) net"
rather than posting them here on the discussion forum. (Not everyone
subscribed here will be interested to know the publication date of the
sixth printing of ~Fuzzy Sapiens~! or if the third printing of
~Paratime~ had a printer's key number line~)
Thanks in advance for your help.
Down Styphon!
David
--
"Mobs
don't like to advance into certain death, and they don't like to
advance over the bodies and wreckage of their own forward elements.
Neither do soldiers, but soldiers will do it." - Walt Boyd (H. Beam
Piper), ~Four-Day Planet~
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David "PiperFan" Johnson 04-13-2012
05:15 UT
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Maj. Gen. Fox Conner: The Cosmic Computer?
I've always
wondered if Conn Maxwell's first name was a shortened form of "Conner"
(or "Connor"). And I've also often wondered if Beam had some sort of
historical personage in mind when he named Foxx Travis because "Foxx"
seemed such an atypical given name.
Then I ran across a reference
to General Fox Conner, chief of operations for the American
Expeditionary Forces (AEF) in World War I:
http://www.worldwar1.com/dbc/foxconner.htm
Surely,
Beam knew of Gen. Conner. The general's protege, Dwight Eisenhower,
called him the "Brain" of the AEF. (In "Graveyard of Dreams," the early
version of ~The Cosmic Computer~, the mythical supercomputer is called
"the Brain" rather than Merlin.)
I suppose we'll never know for certain, but if I had to guess I'd say Conn, at least, is short for "Conner."
Remember Ashmodai! Remember Belphegor!
David
--
"You
know, it's never a mistake to take a second look at anything that
everybody believes." - Rodney Maxwell (H. Beam Piper), "Graveyard of
Dreams"
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Dietmar Wehr
04-02-2012
20:13 UT
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Something like that, ya.
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Jackson Russell
04-02-2012
18:11 UT
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Conflict of artistic expression?
Jack
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Dietmar Wehr
04-02-2012
17:53 UT
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I want to let all Piper fans know that John Carr and I are no longer
working on an expanded version of my short sequel to Cosmic Computer,
entitled Tides of Chaos. My original version is still available on
lulu.com. I'm going to work on a Tides of Chaos Part II and when that's
done, both parts will be available on Amazon's kindle site.
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