Re: Knife of Dreams

2005-10-15 Thread Julia Thompson

The Fool wrote:

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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

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Re: Knife of Dreams

2005-10-15 Thread Maru Dubshinki
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
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2005-10-15 Thread The Fool
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