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About my libraryOnly a small chunk of the overall library holdings here at Chateau Dysfunction are in LibraryThing thus far. All of the large format SF&F (hardcovers and trade paperbacks) is in, along with some of the small format paperbacks, which make up the bulk of the SF&F collection – generally because I’ve now trained myself to add books to LT as I acquire them, or I’ve pulled them out of the stacks for another reason and decided to catalogue them while they were out. For this reason also there’s only a small selection of the crime and cookbook holdings currently represented in my LT library.

Because of some gentle urging from certain Associates elsewhere, I have just now started to methodically add the rest of the SF collection, but it’s very much going to be a work in progress for awhile. Also, I’ve done nothing about tagging anything yet, as I want to think carefully about what sort of tagging taxonomy I will use.

Update: 13 April 2009
Have now entered all of the small format SF&F up into the 'S' authors, but have reached the eand of the easily accessible SF shelves. Diverting on to the crime/mystery bookcases for a while to make a start there also.

Have also decided on a few basic broad tags - nothing too idiosyncratic. :)

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Cobweb by Neal Stephenson

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The Furies by Suzy McKee Charnas

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Blast from the Past by Kinky Friedman

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A Case of Lone Star by Kinky Friedman

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The Artificial Kid (Cortext) by Bruce Sterling

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The Sun Over Breda by Arturo Perez-Reverte

Hi Surtac
I'm glad the book arrived safely. I think you got one of the last few copies of the first printing. Hope you enjoy the rest of the poems!!

best
Leigh

posted by 666777 at 11:16 pm (EST) on Oct 16, 2009

Hi
Good to meet you at Conflux 6! We went to Fyshwick where we found Canty's Bookstore - four or five hc and large format C.J. Cherryhs there - could be worth checking if you haven't been there for a while...I picked a Samuel Delany I needed...

best
Leigh

posted by 666777 at 10:16 pm (EST) on Oct 4, 2009

Just stopping in to say hi & see your latest additions!

posted by MtnSk8tr at 12:45 am (EST) on Sep 12, 2009

I see that you too have just added Third World War. What did you think of it

posted by carterchristian1 at 10:11 pm (EST) on May 16, 2009

Hi, guy!

Sharon says, hi. We're sitting here in the basement ready to attack the library. Going to start with the Norton books...which means all the pre-isbn stuff.

The question of books is touchy. DAW sat on five books for several years, then finally decided it had been too long since the initial books in the series came out. Can't blame them considering the state of NY publishing at the moment, but it does mean I have the prequel to the Groundties series, the Sequel to Ring of Destiny, the massive rewrites of all the Groundties books, and a contemporary vampire fantasy all ready to spring on the market.

CJ, Lynn Abbey and I are banding together to form a little "publishing" company of sorts. We'll be going the e-book route. check out http://closed-circle.net (that is closed(hyphen)circle(dot)net) for our glorious logo put together by Lynn and humble self and links to our sites.

Hmmmm...Sharon's starting to read books. I'd better go put her to work. More on the books on my website and blog!

posted by JaneFancher at 7:16 pm (EST) on Apr 18, 2009

Hmmm. Pine Gap. Wouldn't be surprising were there to be some SF readers affiliated with that facility. Perhaps that would account for the visit to my profile?

posted by stellarexplorer at 10:28 pm (EST) on Oct 30, 2008

When you get a chance, check out my visitor map. There is a visitor from smack dab in the heart of Australia. I'd have thought that was pure desert. On a map there's a town called Alice Springs. Could that be the place? Is that a sizable habitation?

posted by stellarexplorer at 12:27 am (EST) on Oct 30, 2008

I see you have acquired the Weinberg book. I am now around page 650, and have been reading hard for months. I got a lot read yesterday on a long plane ride, but I am still years away from the conclusion. But as Star says, it is an awesome book. I have read a lot of fiction about various aspects of WWII but never any history, and it is humbling to realize how little I knew. Weinberg is readable, and is exhaustive (not exhausting), and is global. So much to know. I feel that each of his paragraphs probably could lead to a full length treatment of a small slice of the war. I am so grateful to Star for recommending this book. except you know he provided a spoiler. I won't tell you, but he told me how it all came out. Sheesh.

posted by kokipy at 12:45 am (EST) on Sep 26, 2008

Congratulations on acquiring A World at Arms: A Global History of World War II by Gerhard L. Weinberg -- (I assume this is newly acquired based on Kokipy's comments?) WONDERFUL book by a scholar with the broadest grasp of the conflict, its origins and implications in all their political and global dimensions.

posted by stellarexplorer at 1:34 am (EST) on Sep 24, 2008

I see you are listing your Heinlein. I just picked up Farnham's Freehold. Never read it, but as you know, I go for post-apocalyptic stuff. Have your read that one?

posted by stellarexplorer at 11:39 pm (EST) on Sep 17, 2008

Great. I look forward to hearing!

posted by stellarexplorer at 10:26 pm (EST) on Sep 6, 2008

Hey 'tac. I see you entered The Last Theorem by Arthur C Clarke. Is it good?

posted by stellarexplorer at 11:39 am (EST) on Sep 5, 2008

ah, 'Tac, I was away at my parents' with the kids when you left your comment. I hope you enjoy Dreaming Books and that your trip goes fairly well ;)

posted by moiraji at 12:36 am (EST) on Aug 15, 2008

Seeing that you had started entering John Brunner's books prompted me to begin to add my small paperbacks - this is from a list rather than scanning them and would be a bit tedious were it not that it reminds me of the ones I would like to read again - unfortunately all my small paperbacks have been banished to the loft.

posted by chaffinch at 2:29 pm (EST) on Jun 29, 2008

Correct that! You have jumped into first place!

posted by stellarexplorer at 11:45 pm (EST) on Jun 25, 2008

And you have jumped to fourth on my list; kokipy being seventh. Both impressive, given the number of users.

That is a lot of PA books, 'tac! I own a mere 37.

posted by stellarexplorer at 12:23 am (EST) on Jun 25, 2008

Interesting. WNM certainly captures the theme I remember from Gender Genocide. I remember the misogyny, but can't forget that these were often rip-roaring adventures. But they may have appealed at an adolescent hormone-enhanced level.

I will try to bring up other authors, to stimulate the cataloging response!

I imagine it will be a lot of work, but I'd like to see your Poul Anderson entries when you get a chance. I recently saw that Greg Bear is married to Anderson's daughter, who tells of a famous meeting between her father, Arther C "Ego" Clarke, and Robt. Heinlein in California

posted by stellarexplorer at 10:29 am (EST) on Jun 20, 2008

After your entry of the Edmund Cooper books, I have moved up on your "Members with Surtac's books" list! I have Double Phoenix, Gender Genocide, A Far Sunset, The Last Continent, and News From Elsewhere, which you haven't listed. You have Uncertain Midnight, Who Needs Men?, Tomorrow Came, War Games of Zelos, and Venom of Argus, which I lack.

posted by stellarexplorer at 9:56 pm (EST) on Jun 17, 2008

if you pm me your address, I'll go ahead and send it. I'm sure you'll be finished with it before I manage to get around to it. you can read it and send it back and by then I might be caught up enough to be able to sit down and enjoy it. :D

posted by moiraji at 6:43 pm (EST) on Apr 29, 2008

*coughcough*

I have a copy of City of Dreaming Books, Surtac. I need to actually read it (I'm so behind) and then I can pass it your way...

posted by moiraji at 11:10 pm (EST) on Apr 23, 2008

Ah, so it is Czech. How very cool! :) Good luck with the "Dreaming Books", I'm sure you'll like it.

posted by Vetch at 12:16 pm (EST) on Apr 8, 2008

Hiya, and happy birthday again! I just noticed you got a book called Punkt Potrojny :), now I'm really curious what language that is! Czech?
And I see you got "Rumo" and "Blaubär" by Walter Moers, but not "City of dreaming Books", which is so much better! I just wanna recommend it, in case you're fed up with Moers after reading "Rumo".

posted by Vetch at 9:06 am (EST) on Apr 3, 2008

Hi Surtac, thanks for accepting my invite. Please disreguard the aelithtourblanc account. I thought I had to start over when I forgot my password. I hate passwords.

posted by Aelith at 4:07 pm (EST) on Mar 26, 2008

hey, where's my comment? oh well, I guess it wasn't that impressive ;)

good luck on the job ahead; I understand it to be quite momentous!

posted by moiraji at 2:17 pm (EST) on Feb 24, 2008

I LOVE being able to see what all of us in our respective libraries. Absolutely fascinating. Even if your books are upside down on the shelves! ; )

posted by MtnSk8tr at 2:56 am (EST) on Feb 22, 2008

Surtac! I, too, like Clark Ashton Smith very much. I have several of his books but just haven't cataloged them all (or maybe any) yet. I have "The City of the Singing Flame" and "Xiccarph" and "The Monster of the Prophecy" and "Lost Worlds" at least. Great stories! I think I presonally prefer Jack Vance's "Dying Earth" stories better because although the flavor is the same the horror is downplayed a shred.

posted by CyanDag at 1:48 pm (EST) on Feb 21, 2008

Hey guys! nice to see you lot!

posted by HRHSpence at 8:22 pm (EST) on Feb 20, 2008

Thank you, Surtac-ji. Now I feel better.

posted by kokipy at 4:59 pm (EST) on Feb 19, 2008

so far, so good!

posted by stellarexplorer at 11:54 pm (EST) on Jan 18, 2008

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