From: Richard Baker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-To: Killer Bs Discussion <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: The Iron Dragon's Daughter: A Mystery Date: Thu, 07 Oct 2004 20:06:41 +0100
I just got home to find a package waiting for me. My address was handwritten on it and the return address was for a Michael Cockburn (I think, I can't really make out the surname) in Saint Albans. I don't know anyone of that name, nor was I expected anything except for a couple of packages from Amazon (variously containing Banks' _The Algebraist_, Stephenson's _The System of the World_ and Southern's _The Roman Empire From Severus To Constatine_). Intrigued, I opened it to find an old and somewhat battered copy of _The Iron Dragon's Daughter_ by Mike Swanwick. This is a book I spent many years searching for, until the lovely Ashley bought me a copy about four years ago. So now I'm wondering who the kind donor is, why they would send me a book that I wanted very much years ago, and where they got my address.
Does anyone have any ideas?
I have a confession to make...
...I have a Star Wars mug. Yoda, to be exact.
I have no idea Rich. Though it is intriguing, if not a tad unsettling!
Have you ever given out your address on the list?
Does anyone here actually know your address, that you actually know of? It could be a friend of yours, whether on the list or in the real world, playing around with you.
Do you actually suspect a list member, or perhaps even a reader of the list? Or were you just looking for ideas about this from us?
Anyway, I dunno. But applying the principle of parsimony certainly wouldn't hurt.
-Travis "Occam's Razor" Edmunds
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