Looking for Story: "Marching Societies"
Lord Vetinari
be near when they marched. It feels like a Larry Niven story, but my memory
is unclear. Anyone?
Michael Stemper
Sounds like _Necromancer_ by Gordon R. Dickson.
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Dorothy J Heydt
Gordon Dickson, _Necromancer._ First (internal chronology)
of the Splinter Culture books.
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Lord Vetinari
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I think you're right. It's been way too long since I read that. One of the
very first books I bought from the SFBC, in the mid-70s.
Default User
As Michael said, probably Necromancer. If it featured a mining engineer
who had lost an arm and couldn't get a new one to regrow, then it's
definitely the one.
Brian
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Bill Snyder
mste...@walkabout.empros.com (Michael Stemper) wrote:
>In article <kmq5m.6335$vO4....@flpi145.ffdc.sbc.com>, "Lord Vetinari" <veti...@ameritech.net> writes:
>
>>I recall reading a story that had marching societies, that were dangerous to
>>be near when they marched. It feels like a Larry Niven story, but my memory
>>is unclear. Anyone?
>
>Sounds like _Necromancer_ by Gordon R. Dickson.
Damn, I sure was hoping it'd turn out to be the Elves,
Leprechauns, Gnomes, and Little Men's Chowder & Marching Society.
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Lord Vetinari
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Sorry, this one's fictional.
Bill Snyder
So was that one, originally.
P. Taine
When I was a kid we actually got a newspaper that ran the Barnaby cartoons. I
can remember reading them every day. I have two books of collected strips. Were
there any more than that?
Kurt Busiek
Yes. When Del Rey was reprinting them in the 1980s, they got up to 6
volumes. Which still isn't the full run.
I woulnd up with Judy-Lynne Del Rey's office photocopies of the rest of
the run. With classic strip reprints undergoing a boom of sorts, maybe
someday someone will be able to collect it all...
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P. Taine
Thanks, I'll have to check abeBooks.
I was just going through some old boxes from when my mother died, and found the
issue of pm (sic. -- no caps) with FDR's death. I've filed it with the NY Times
for Obama's inauguration.
P. Taine
David DeLaney
>Bill Snyder <bsn...@airmail.net> wrote:
>>So was that one, originally.
>
>When I was a kid we actually got a newspaper that ran the Barnaby cartoons. I
>can remember reading them every day. I have two books of collected strips.
Were
>there any more than that?
I have a six-book set of the collected strips, from Some Time Ago. Let me see
what the Net can find out for me... ...okay, they are the Ballantine/Del Rey
mid-80s series: _Wanted, a Fairy Godfather_, _Mr. O'Malley and the Haunted
House_, _Jackeen J. O'Malley for Congress_, _Mr. O'Malley Goes for the Gold_,
_Mr. O'Malley, Wizard of Wall Street_, and _J.J. O'Malley Goes Hollywood_.
(The page I'm looking at indicates there's six more years' worth of strips
but not by the original author, and that 12 books were originally planned but
Judy-Lynn's death interfered.)
Dave
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Lawrence Watt-Evans
DeLaney) wrote:
>I have a six-book set of the collected strips, from Some Time Ago. Let me see
>what the Net can find out for me... ...okay, they are the Ballantine/Del Rey
>mid-80s series: _Wanted, a Fairy Godfather_, _Mr. O'Malley and the Haunted
>House_, _Jackeen J. O'Malley for Congress_, _Mr. O'Malley Goes for the Gold_,
>_Mr. O'Malley, Wizard of Wall Street_, and _J.J. O'Malley Goes Hollywood_.
>
>(The page I'm looking at indicates there's six more years' worth of strips
>but not by the original author, and that 12 books were originally planned but
>Judy-Lynn's death interfered.)
Yeah. No one else at Del Rey had any interest in the Barnaby project;
it was Judy-Lynn's baby. She published them just because she liked
the strip, and as long as it didn't lose too much money, nobody was
about to tell her no.
But when she had her stroke, that was that.
Judy-Lynn's taste had more influence than many people realize -- she
was the one who bought the Xanth novels, which she considered "a
hoot," even though Lester didn't like them very much. Judy-Lynn was
not a horror fan, so even though Ballantine had the rights to
Lovecraft's entire oeuvre, they didn't publish any more than was
necessary to keep the contracts from lapsing.
Judy-Lynn and Lester both liked the Oz books, but Barnaby and I think
Thorne Smith were entirely Judy-Lynn's idea.
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Mike Schilling
> "Michael Stemper" <mste...@walkabout.empros.com> wrote in message
> news:h35cvc$oeb$1...@news.eternal-september.org...
>> In article <kmq5m.6335$vO4....@flpi145.ffdc.sbc.com>, "Lord
>> Vetinari" <veti...@ameritech.net> writes:
>>
>>> I recall reading a story that had marching societies, that were
>>> dangerous to
>>> be near when they marched. It feels like a Larry Niven story, but
>>> my memory
>>> is unclear. Anyone?
>>
>> Sounds like _Necromancer_ by Gordon R. Dickson.
> I think you're right. It's been way too long since I read that.
> One
> of the very first books I bought from the SFBC, in the mid-70s.
I reviewed it (and the rest of the Childe Cycle) here about six months
ago. It's an odd book, much more like fantasy and less like SF proper
than the rest of the series.
P. Taine
wrote:
>P. Taine <us...@domaine.invalid> wrote:
>>Bill Snyder <bsn...@airmail.net> wrote:
>>>So was that one, originally.
>>
>>When I was a kid we actually got a newspaper that ran the Barnaby cartoons. I
>>can remember reading them every day. I have two books of collected strips.
>Were
>>there any more than that?
>
>I have a six-book set of the collected strips, from Some Time Ago. Let me see
>what the Net can find out for me... ...okay, they are the Ballantine/Del Rey
>mid-80s series: _Wanted, a Fairy Godfather_, _Mr. O'Malley and the Haunted
>House_, _Jackeen J. O'Malley for Congress_, _Mr. O'Malley Goes for the Gold_,
>_Mr. O'Malley, Wizard of Wall Street_, and _J.J. O'Malley Goes Hollywood_.
>
>(The page I'm looking at indicates there's six more years' worth of strips
>but not by the original author, and that 12 books were originally planned but
>Judy-Lynn's death interfered.)
>
>Dave
What I have are two hardcover books, "Barnaby" 1943, Henry Holt, and "Barnaby
and Mr. O'Malley", 1944, Henry Holt. I wonder how these map into the
Ballantine/Del Rey books. I'll have to exhume them and check the story lines.
(Or is that "story arcs"? I not clear on the current terminology.)
P. Taine