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by fallsfromtrees
» Mon Nov 24, 2014 10:36 pm
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At BucConeer in 1998, Baen was giving out free paperback copies of In Enemy Hands. I thought it was a little slow getting started, but by the time I got to the end of the book I was hooked. Immediately bought all of the previous volumes, as well as everything else by David I could find, and have been a first day of issue for everything since.
As all good pushers know, giving away the first sample builds business. No I'm not addicted - I can stop anytime I want. ========================
The only problem with quotes on the internet is that you can't authenticate them -- Abraham Lincoln |
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by Jonathan_S
» Mon Nov 24, 2014 11:09 pm
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My father got me hooked. He'd picked up the first two books to on a trip, I borrowed them, devoured them, and immediately checked Amazon to see if there were more (and quickly grabbed the rest). That was probable sometime in '98... after the paperback for In Enemy Hands was released.
That's the breakpoint in my collection because starting with Echoes of Honor I was getting them up in hardcover as soon as they released. |
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by cthia
» Mon Nov 24, 2014 11:16 pm
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Son, your mother says I have to hang you. Personally I don't think this is a capital offense. But if I don't hang you, she's gonna hang me and frankly, I'm not the one in trouble. —cthia's father. Incident in ? Axiom of Common Sense |
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by stewart
» Mon Nov 24, 2014 11:19 pm
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Copy of "Flag in Exile" in the library at Seabee Camp Shields while deployed in 1996.
-- Stewart |
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by npadln
» Tue Nov 25, 2014 12:01 am
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Used book shop in Montreal in the early 90's, saw a science fiction book where the protagonist was a woman and an officer to boot. I always had a thing for women as noble warriors since my first introduction long ago with C. J. Cherryh's The Morgaine Saga and then Ripely in Alien. Good timing on DW's part and good timing on mine....
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by MuonNeutrino
» Tue Nov 25, 2014 12:04 am
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My mom found a copy of one or another of the books in our local library... probably a bit more than a dozen years ago now. The timescale sounds about right, because I'm fairly sure that the next one that came out after we started reading them was War of Honor in 2002. Anyway, I don't remember which of them was the first one she found, but she brought it home and basically the entire family was hooked instantly.
We cleaned the library out of every book they had in the series the next time we went, and placed interlibrary loan requests for the rest of them. We eventually did manage to track down and read every existing book in the series, just in time for the next one to come out, which we bought ourselves (again, I think that was War of Honor, especially because that was one of the ones with a CD, and we did pick up one of those CDs fairly quickly). We don't all live in the same house anymore, but all five of us still eagerly await every new book's release. _______________________________________________________
MuonNeutrino Astronomer, teacher, gamer, and procrastinator extraordinaire |
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by exiledtoIA
» Tue Nov 25, 2014 12:33 am
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I blame Toni W.
She is the one who put those nasty little "If you like this you might like these" thingiees in the back of Baen paperbacks. You have no idea how much money those have cost me over the years. |
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by Montrose Toast
» Tue Nov 25, 2014 12:43 am
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Bought the Starfire games in IS A School [Lowry AFB] 1981 on a recomendation of a fellow student/wargamer.
Saw OBS along with the Starfire books in Yokosuka NB S&S and bought them in 1992 [USS Independence homeported there]. Been collecting every since and replaced the orig paperbacks due to water damage. "Who Dares Wins"
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by GlynnStewart
» Tue Nov 25, 2014 11:05 am
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Went out camping with my folks, and realized I hadn't brought enough books along (I think I expected my parents to have more
 )Stopped in the drug store in the town by our campsite, and they had the $0.99 special edition (might be $1.99, don't have the book to hand) of On Basilisk Station, and a copy of In Enemy Hands. Grabbed them both, and well, now I have four or five shelves of Mr. Weber! |
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by HB of CJ
» Tue Nov 25, 2014 5:10 pm
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It was many years ago when I was volunteering at our very small non funded public library out here in SW Oregon, USA. I was re checking, re stacking and generally making sure each and every library book was exactly where it should be. If it was not, then it was essentially lost to the system.
When I finished doing that, the head librarian lady asked me to check through the system, tag and stack the newly purchased books. One of them was "On Basilisk Station" by David Weber. The rest is history or they say. I purchased each new edition as it became available, read it, then donated it. HB of CJ (old coot) Cm. |
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