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Library Additions: Niven and Resnick PBOs, One Signed

Tuesday, October 7th, 2025

Two more purchases from that ongoing library sell-off on Facebook:

  • Niven, Larry. Ringworld. Ballantine Books, 1970. First edition paperback original (“First Printing: October 1970,” as per Currey), a Near Fine copy with just a start of spine creasing, traces of soiling to rear cover, and trace of wear at head and heel and tips, otherwise a tight, square, beautiful copy. Hugo and Nebula winner for Best Novel. Currey, page 387. Pringle, Ultimate Guide to Science Fiction, page 262 (“***”). Barron, Anatomy of Wonder 4 *4-316. Magill, Survey of Science Fiction Literature, pages 1799-1804. The true first edition and the one in which Niven infamously had the earth rotating the wrong way. Supplements a copy of the Gollancz hardback first and replaces a less attractive PBO copy I’ll offer up in the next Lame Excuse Books catalog (probably November). Bought for $5.

  • Renick, Mike. Eros Descending. Signet, 1985. First edition paperback original (“First Printing, December, 1985/1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9”), a Near Fine- copy with spine crease just beginning, start of a hairline crease along front spine join, a dozen or so very small rubs to bottom half of front cover, bookstore stamp to blurb page, and a trace of edgewear, otherwise a tight, square copy, signed by Resnick. Third book in the Tales of the Velvet Comet. Bought for $5.

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    Armadillocon 2011 Pictures Redux

    Friday, November 16th, 2012

    Poking around some old posts, I noticed that some pictures from more than a year ago weren’t showing up. Turns out it’s because Facebook likes to completely change the name for pictures every now and then.

    My process for putting up con pictures is:

    1. Take pictures.
    2. Upload to Mac.
    3. Do a quick edit in iPhoto.
    4. Bulk upload to Facebook.
    5. Copy URLs for JPEG’s from Facebook and reference them from the blog post.

    This method is quick, easy, and hosts pics on Facebook’s dime. The downside is the Facebook rejiggering, and having to go back every now and then and redo the links.

    Anyway, I’ve gone in and changed all the URLs for my Armadillocon 2011 pictures:

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    • I’m sure there are some other blog posts with pics that need updating, and I’ll get to those in My Copious Free Time.

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    A New Google Irritation

    Thursday, November 10th, 2011

    1. Search for something in Google.
    2. At the top of the search results page, click on “News.”
    3. Instead of showing the news results on your search term, as it did every single day up until now, it blanks the search field and just show you a regular search page, rather than carrying over the term you just searched for.

    Why, Google? Why you gotta play me like that?

    (Note that I refrain from listing irritating Facebook changes, since those seem to occur every single day…)

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