On 10/15/05, Julia Thompson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The Fool wrote: > > ---------- > > From: Maru Dubshinki <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > > to a satisfactory conclusion; no, I think of the human costs. WoT > > started way back when *Reagan* was president AFAIK. How many fans > > have died, to never see WoT finished? How many readers has WoT > > outlasted? > > > > ---- > > If by 'Reagan' you mean the chimperor's father... > > Publication date of January 1990 would indicate that Bush 41 was > president. (Very easy to go to amazon.com and check publication dates!) > > Now, when Reagan was president, the big fantasy thing I remember was > people desperate for the next David Eddings installment. I never got > very far into any of his stuff. (And this continued into the Bush 41 > administration -- at the end of 1989, no less than 3 of my friends were > overjoyed to get the latest one of his at Christmas.) > > Julia
I do not trust Amazon for publication dates. In the course of my Star Wars work for Wikipedia, I've found many publication dates that were simply wrong, even for the editions listed as the first published. But in this case, yeah, it does seem to have started in '90. Still, 15 years is a long time. ~Maru _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
