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Member: stochasticooze

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GroupsArizona Trading Post, Comics, NPR Listeners, Science Fiction Fans, What Are You Reading Now?, What did YOU buy today?

Favorite authorsDouglas Adams, Isaac Asimov, Michael Chabon, Philip K. Dick, Harlan Ellison, Garrison Keillor, Carl Sagan, John Kennedy Toole, Mark Twain (Shared favorites)

Favorite bookstoresBookmans - Mesa, Changing Hands Bookstore

About meThere's precious little I want out of life. A satisfying, well-paying job. A loving family. A library card. Shoes that don't hurt my feet.

A couple billion dollars. Universal admiration. A mutant healing factor. A harem of cloned pornstars.

That's really about it.

Oh, and a new King's Quest. Preferably one that doesn't suck.

About my libraryI buy the vast majority of my books used. I browse about the library book sales and a couple secondhand shops I know, looking for anything with a byline I might recognize as worthwhile.

A number of my books are rather old, at least by the standards of these things. Put it this way: I don't own any books that could be considered antiques. A few were published in the 20s. (My 1925 edition of Ingersoll's 44 Complete Lectures had a calendar page from 1936 in it; somebody was using it as a bookmark.) Several are from the 30s and 40s, and I have dozens from the 50s.

A large percentage of my library is science fiction. It's not a coincidence that a majority of my SF books were originally published in the 40s, 50s and 60s; my interest in newer SF is... considerably less.

Currently most of my books are packed away in boxes; I'm planning to move soon, and even after I get to a new place I don't know that I'll have room.

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Real nameJason Silverstein

LocationPhoenix, Arizona

Emailjsilver42gmail.com

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Member sinceOct 30, 2005