June Challenge: The Real Thing

[Goliath]

A great Huff story - very fun and entertaining!

Thank you!

 

[Mistral]

For those who are interested-more on the Fuzzies here.

http://www.zarthani.net/

 

[Goliath]

Very cool. The 1976 Ace edition--the one with the blue cover--is the one I read.

 

[Mistral]

Very cool. The 1976 Ace edition--the one with the blue cover--is the one I read.

Yeah, I own all of his stuff with the Whelan covers. By the way-there is some fan fiction that's worth reading buried on the sight-I was up until 4 am reading a novel set in the Space Viking era.

 

[Starkers]

Great story, I loved the other Huff stories I've read so it was great to read about him again.

 

[Goliath]

Thank you.

 

[sojourner]

I have everything by Piper excluding "Murder in the Gunroom". "Space Viking" is sort of my "Catcher in the Rye". I can't enter a book store without looking for a copy. I have first editions of "Space Viking" and "Lord Kalvan" along with numerous copies of Viking and "Junkyard Planet". Personally, "The Cosmic Computer" aka "Junkyard Planet" is one of my favorite books.

 

[Goliath]

^Nice.

I don't ordinarily collect older paperback books, except by necessity.

But I do admire them, and I've even been forced to buy a few, as part of my efforts to collect every stand-alone winner of the Nebula Awards.

And just the other day, I found a great old copy of Fritz Leiber's Gather, Darkness! in a local used bookstore.

 

[sojourner]

Yea, Piper is the exception to my rule against hording books. I think it's due to the rarity.

He could have been one of the greats if he hadn't made that stupid mistake.

 

[Mistral]

Second that. I have a 1st edition of Paratime! that cost me about $12 back in 1980. Everytime I read (the newer copy) of that I wonder what else he might have given us...