Andrea Leistra wrote:
>
> On Tue, 24 Oct 2000, Doug Pensinger wrote:
>
> > Finally found another Banks novel (Inversions) at Know Knew Books! I also
> > found another book I've been looking for for a long time - Irving Stone's
> > history of the American West "Men to Match My Mountains" _and_ a hardback
> > Asimov collection that I didn't have yet: "The Early Asimov. Very cool.
> >
> > Hey, how come Banks isn't published over here anyway? The stuff I've read is
> > clearly top notch SF, what gives?
>
> Er, he mostly is.
>
Yea, I don't know what I was thinking, I have a couple of US editions of his
books.
> It goes out of print pretty fast, but it generally does get published
> sooner or later;
That's what I meant (I think), so I restate my question, why do a top notch SF
author's books go out of print so quickly. That being said, I found a copy of
_The Player of Games_ at Tower Books (Tower Books?) today. It's a US trade
published by HarperPrism. $13.
> (I miss Know Knew books. Sigh.)
>
Well, jobs-a-plenty up here (SF bay area). Housing market's a bit tight,
though. And traffic is _much_ worse if you can believe it.
Doug
