Better than The Sagas of Icelanders, I recommend The Complete Sagas of Icelanders (though I was lucky enough to get a review copy!).
Jennie did a good job defending academic presses on the basis of their publication of obscure non-fiction. But I think they perform an important service in publishing obscure fiction, too - if it wasn't for the University of Nebraska Press, who would print a translation of Irmtraud Morgner's The Life and Adventures of Trobadora Beatrice as Chronicled by Her Minstrel Laura?
This kind of thing sucks bigtime; I hope you get over it soon.
One of my users wanted to mirror two external drives on his Mac, so I automated an rsync to do that daily, whenever both drives were connected. That's a short shell script run out of cron. For an easier to use front-end, this might be useful (I haven't tried it yet).
Just remember that while mirroring will save you from disk failures, it won't help you if you acidentally delete something and don't notice till the mirror is overwritten, or if data becomes invisibly corrupt. You still need to do backups to tape or CD every so often.
"Robert Jordan couldn't write those books if he wasn't sincere about them."
I'll accept that has to be true for the first books in a series, but surely in at least some cases authors must keep on writing (or finishing) series that they've lost their personal engagement with, simply because a) the fans want them and b) it's a guaranteed sell?
For maybe five years in the mid 80s I read pretty much all the science fiction and fantasy that was published - someone at my local library was keen on the genres, and they got in everything. But I've been reading less and less ever since then and these days I probably only read half a dozen books in the two genres a year. That's partly because my reading tastes have broadened, but also because the bookshops seem to be full of boring genre fantasy... is it my imagination, or is there proportionately much less science fiction being published now?
And once you lose touch - with who's publishing what, and what's great and what's not - it's hard to get back into it. Which is one of the reasons I enjoy Making Light - it offers a chance to sit in on the discussions between authors and editors and readers.
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