Member: iansales

Hi Ian, good to see you here!
Cheers
Larry

posted by sf_addict at 11:31 am (EST) on Dec 19, 2009

I had posted that song on one of the snobs music pages (I think) and just thought maybe you remembered it from that. Oh, well.

posted by geneg at 4:24 pm (EST) on Oct 2, 2009

Hi, I am just clicking around and came across the fantastic picture at the top of the page. Is that you or someone you know? The child looks like someone from a fantasy with those big eyes!So precious!

posted by mmignano11 at 12:06 am (EST) on Sep 18, 2009

Thanks.

posted by kevmalone at 4:12 pm (EST) on Apr 7, 2009

Ian
What is the BEACON series?
http://www.librarything.com/series/Beaco...

posted by kevmalone at 3:05 pm (EST) on Apr 7, 2009

I hope you don't mind me adding you to my interesting libraries. I've recently become very interested in the sci-fi genre and you have a very large collecting of sci-fi books that I would like to reference in the future.

posted by RebeccaAnn at 2:07 pm (EST) on Mar 16, 2009

AsYouKnow_Bob is my new hero, but I have just made you New Hero #2 and will use your library for reference if that's O.K. with you.
Thanks,
Peggy

posted by LizzieD at 10:34 am (EST) on Feb 23, 2009

umm.. i wasn't, particularly. Between Iron John, M. Scott Peck and (imo) Joseph Campbell, our local church while good and responsible in matters social, went head first into the shallow end in terms of "literary guidance."

posted by bobmcconnaughey at 6:31 pm (EST) on Jan 29, 2009

Iron John- god save us - one of the major issues i had w/ our local episcopalian church (other than i couldn't stop being an atheist) was the "men being men support group." wtf. That was 20 yrs ago. They were v. big on drumming, iirc (so i was told). Yeah. More than bad poetry can be blamed on Robert Bly.

posted by bobmcconnaughey at 4:13 pm (EST) on Jan 29, 2009

Ian,

Just had the latest PR for the Eastercon and I see you're a member. Are you planning to be there?

posted by RobertDay at 7:09 pm (EST) on Jan 27, 2009

Ian:

Invite accepted.

However, with friends like me...

posted by CliffBurns at 4:45 pm (EST) on Jan 24, 2009

thanks for leaving the comment on the conservative mindset. I more or less stopped posting anything on vaguely political sites long ago..Sometime,back in the stone age, (1992 iirc) when NPR (Nat. Public Radio) first set up a bulletin board where people could leave comments about the show, i left a note to the effect that i'd thought that NPR's commentary had become increasingly slanted to the right as the Reagan admin. kept threatening to pull funding from such leftist swill. (We had such pleasures as a general who'd been involved in setting up Iran/Contra and training central American "para-military" forces on the news as an "expert" commentator on things Latin American). As we shared a dial up line w/ one email name..ours was bobadampjb which combines our adam and my name w/ my Patty's initials. I got this incredible screed, laced with ill-spelling and profanity, telling Adam and me to take our homosexual selves out of the country and that this fellow had had a prof. at some fine uni send him out into the world w/ the inane adage about being heartless if one's not a liberal in youth and a fool if not a conservative when old. I politely pointed out that he'd written a note to a family..father, mother and son..all of whom were fully literate and that it WAS useful to have his note as an introduction to the American conservative mindset for a 9 yr old boy. Never heard back.

posted by bobmcconnaughey at 9:49 am (EST) on Dec 28, 2008

Hi, I saw your comment on the "Book Swap" thread - who are you on BookMooch?

- Bob (My identity on BookMooch is "asyouknow_bob" )

posted by AsYouKnow_Bob at 12:14 am (EST) on Aug 24, 2008

Ian - the original question (as i'm reading it) did NOT ask as best i can tell about the 1st mention - it asked about the ubiquitous nature of these technologies being predicted..
:"Are there any examples of proto-internets in science fiction, or predictions for the widespread use of cell phones?"

bob

posted by bobmcconnaughey at 7:20 am (EST) on Jul 7, 2008

If you add the author (Philip Birtles) to 'DeHavilland Vampire, Venom and Sea Vixen' you can connect with my copy and obtain a cover.

posted by surly at 1:03 pm (EST) on Mar 29, 2008

Hi, welcome to LibraryThing!

posted by AsYouKnow_Bob at 9:01 pm (EST) on Jan 30, 2008

Many thanks for the skinny on the SF & FMW series. Do you have a contact at Orion, or did you read this somewhere?

posted by Diamat at 5:19 am (EST) on Dec 20, 2007

Ian:

Thanks for the scan of the Dune Calendar! Check out my catalog from time to time (wait about six months and I'll have a over a thousand sf covers, mostly 50s and 60s).

The Dune Calendar came around again last year. I certainly enjoy this one.

posted by Farree at 2:16 am (EST) on Aug 18, 2007

I thought Angel Stations had a quirky, dreamlike, intriguing quality to it. And my personal preference is not for novels with endless shoot-em ups - although I realise this is the current fashion.

posted by m.a.harding at 7:18 pm (EST) on Jun 17, 2007

Hello Ian! I have just started this malarky so I've got a few library entries to go yet.....

posted by m.a.harding at 9:04 pm (EST) on Apr 23, 2007