The most recent 20 comments posted to Making Light by Carl Caputo:

Bruce Cohen (SpeakerToManagers), I'm going to guess Stefan Jones took his books to the City of Books, the downtown store, at approximately eleven o'clock in the morning. I will guess further that he carried them in multiple Fred Meyer bags, and wears a short beard and glasses, because I suspect I walked right by him as he was entering the store. I noticed some Heinleins peeking out of the bags.

I'm sure they just made Jayne clean 'em. He's their public relations guy, right?

#389, that movie is Bulworth, the lines Warren Beatty's: "All we need is a voluntary, free-spirited, open-ended program of procreative racial deconstruction. Everybody just gotta keep fuckin' everybody 'til they're all the same color."

Thanks for keeping up the tradition of timely answers at Making Light!

In #3 Terry Karney mentions a book by Walter Murch, but Murch is an Academy Award-winning editor in the movies, and the book is about editing movies. I can't figure out what was supposed to be referenced there, and it's now driving me crazy. Maybe Walter Alvarez? Please, Terry, help me!

For what it's worth, John Clute recommends Her Smoke Rose Up Forever, saying:

Her finest stories had appeared in four paperback volumes—10,000 Light-Years from Home (1973), Warm Worlds and Otherwise (1975), Star Songs of an Old Primate (1978) and Out of the Everywhere, and Other Extraordinary Visions (1981)—and though each one of them could claim to be among the very few permanently significant collections to appear during that period, not one of them was ever even published in hardback (except for the first, released in England by Methuen in a setting that boasted unjustified right margins and a whole new crop of proofing errors to augment the contemptible slurry of goofs that corrupted the ill-edited original version from Ace). Subsequently, Doubleday did publish, in Byte Beautiful (1986), complete with expurgations to fit its contents to the library market, a collection of old and new work oddly sorted and poorly argued as a conspectus of her distinguished career. James Tiptree Jr had become virtually unknowable.

The publication of Her Smoke Rose Up Forever, as edited by James Turner, comes therefore as an important event. Because almost every story James Tiptree Jr wrote at the apogee of her passage across the heavens is here assembled, Her Smoke Rose Up Forever ranks as one of the two or three most significant collections of short sf ever published.

Dave at Dave's Long Box talks about this, er, lofty? phenomenon in terms of the Boob War. And Power Girl is its zenith.

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