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[rushthatspeaks]

I have a contributor's copy of Women in Science Fiction and Fantasy, ed. Robin Reid, which looks like a wonderful and useful reference book except that I can't read my own nonfiction after a certain quantity of time has elapsed because oh god I could not even write a sentence two years ago and it is awful to have to look at. But I am looking forward to reading the things by everybody else.

Also we have an angstnokami through Sunday. Yayness.

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[nineweaving.livejournal.com]

Wow, that's a costly book. That's actual recompense. Can I visit it?

Enjoy your sojourner.

Nine

[sovay]

I have a contributor's copy of Women in Science Fiction and Fantasy, ed. Robin Reid, which looks like a wonderful and useful reference book except that I can't read my own nonfiction after a certain quantity of time has elapsed because oh god I could not even write a sentence two years ago and it is awful to have to look at.

Nonetheless: congratulations.

[nineweaving.livejournal.com]

Seconded. It's wonderful to have been chosen for so stately an enterprise. You've done well. Preen.

Nine

[orawnzva.livejournal.com]

Will any of you folks be at Arisia, by any chance?

[eredien]

Myself--maybe? I think nineweaving and sovay are running panels.

Rush: congratulations. Can I read it?

[negothick.livejournal.com]

Yes, many congratulations on being in the volume, which will be a peerless reference work for the very few libraries that will be able to afford it! Greenwood's competitor, Gale/Thomsen/whatever the conglomerate is called now, accepts a lower standard of critical inquiry in their genre reference books, but also sells at a lower price. It's hard enough to get college libraries to buy critical titles in the genre (except for those libraries that buy everything). Price tags like this won't help.
On the other hand, Greenwood doesn't tend to remainder their titles, but keeps them in print. Yale UP sent The Encyclopedia of New England to the remainder tables (I have an article on Gothic New England in it, natch), though it's still listed as in print on their website. If you see it, it's a good bargain--$19 for 1600 pages.

[eredien]

I just looked at the price. Yikes! I guess I will have to borrow your copy if I plan on reading it at all, since I can't imagine I'd get access to it otherwise.