Sinew's parentage

Chris · 22 Feb 2005, 23:37 · from 2005-February.txt.gz

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From: rasputin_ at hotmail.com (Chris)
Date: Tue Feb 22 23:37:26 2005
Subject: (urth) Sinew's parentage
In-Reply-To: <003801c5196e$42b3be20$373ec6d8 at rclackey.stic.net>
Message-ID: <BAY102-F12E783D3D5D3C1242FEEE786630 at phx.gbl>

>What can I say? I stand by my original statement. Stone Ox gave you the
>pertinent quote. It comes from page 384 of EXODUS FROM THE LONG SUN, Tor,
>Hardback, First Edition: November 1996. It's the last page of the book. If
>Amazon says something different, then they're wrong, or both my wife and I
>are hallucinating. Am I the only one here who bought the book?
>
>Sheesh!
>
>-Roy

The rest of us have sort of gotten by on reading a couple pages at a time 
from Amazon's inside the book search, and we share screenshots to paste the 
thing together. It takes a lot of work, but we have a lot of willpower and 
free time, and not enough cash to buy a copy of the book and scan it.

Seriously though, maybe Wolfe needs to be treated like the classics where 
the original page number appears in the margin so that you can track the 
same references in different editions. I didn't even try to look up your 
reference because I have the latest trade paperback versions and I assume 
the page numbers are different.

Somehow I don't think anyone anticipated anyone citing a sci-fi book to the 
extent that we do.

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