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Casting Fortune írta: John M. Ford

Feather and Ring {short story} írta: Ruth Nestvold

Do Ye Hear the Children Weeping? [short fiction] írta: Howard Goldsmith

The Boy and the Wolf {poem} írta: Louis Untermeyer

Strands of starlight írta: Gael Baudino

The world wreckers írta: Marion Zimmer Bradley

The New Prehistory {short story} írta: René Rebetez-Cortes

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A könyvtáramrólBillie Aul & Tim Smith's books. Originally this was just our science fiction, but we've added everything, because, in the end, all our books are related to each other. We're still working on adding some of the oddball collections. Billie is also trying to track her lifelong reading by entering the contents of various older systems.

Collections:

Your library: The physical books in our house
GLBT: Books of GLBT interest that are physically in the house
Linguistics: The books Tim considers part of his linguistic hobby collection. The books are physically in the house.
Analytics: short stories, essays, plays etc inside anthologies, collections and magazines so they can be reviewed, rated and tracked separately. Not necessarily in the house (though most of the sf magazines are neatly arranged in chronological order behind the fiction books -- and we wonder why the house has structural problems)
All the others: Various obsessive attempts by Billie to keep track of EVERYTHING.

Our rating system: (Most of the ratings are Billie's) The half stars are when we disagree.

* - no one should have to read this book
** - this book has minor redeeming features such as being an author's early work, having some useful information, or being funny
*** - we enjoyed it while we were reading it, but we're not planning to read it again (or we enjoyed it when we were twelve, but it didn't stand up to our adult expectations)
**** - it's good. Given world enough and time, we would probably read it again
***** - it changed our life or it changed our thinking or we loved it so much we'll definitely try to read it again

We often use "publication date" for the date the work was originally published, not for the date the volume we own was published.

CsoportokAlbany NY Area Science Fiction Fans, Aul Smith Libraries, Bug Collectors, Geoguessr Challenge Group, Maps and Atlases, Recommendations function in LT, To List or Not to List (now that it's a feature), Zero Growth Challenge in 2012

TalálkozóhelyekVisited

LakhelyUpstate New York

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URL-ek http://www.librarything.com/profile/aulsmith (profil)
http://www.librarything.com/catalog/aulsmith (könyvtár)

Tagság kezdeteJul 21, 2007

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aulsmith hozzáadta:
Fredric Brown : The Waveries

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Groff Conklin : Invaders of earth

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Leigh Brackett : The best of Leigh Brackett

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Leigh Brackett : The Queer Ones [novelette]

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Leigh Brackett : The tweener [short story]

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Leigh Brackett : Shannoch--The Last [novelette]

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When I was perhaps 23, I went to Montreal and Quebec with a couple of other guys. We were going into NY state, looked at a map and thought (w/o any knowledge of the Adirondacks) "wow this area looks really remote and unpopulated" and went that way toward Montreal and went through via Blue Mountain Lake. I absolutely loved the area. Repeated the voyage with my wife about 20+ years later and ended up staying at Blue Mountain Lake perhaps 6 or 7 times after that. It is a trek from the Chicago area. We have gone with friends and stayed there more recently.

If it wasn't for the killer snowy winters, the killer black flies (they don't seem to talk about those buggers in travel brochures hmmm, I wonder why?) and the fact that you can't make much of a living there, I might live there.

bookblotter által bejegyzett 4:37 pm (EST) -kor a May 27, 2013

Thanks for playing geoguessr at Maps & Atlases. The more playing, the merrier. I wish more would participate.

You must be in the Albany area. I was really jealous when I saw "Upstate New York" above, thinking of the Adirondacks where we have gone occasionally on vacations. It's slog for us (Chicago area) and takes some time to get there. It's worth it, though. It's a beautiful, unique place.

Regards,
Munn a/k/a bookblotter

bookblotter által bejegyzett 1:58 pm (EST) -kor a May 27, 2013

Hello. Yes, I was the one who organized the Great Ship stories by letter, though I've been meaning to replace it with something more useful. It was a way of dealing with the way most of the stories could have happened almost anywhere during a timeless-seeming period lasting tens of thousands of years, corresponding with "c". Marrow brought that to an end, with a clear order after that. It's important to several stories that they take place early in the voyage, so I labeled them "a". Beyond that, any evidence of order comes from individual character's arcs, rather than events affecting the whole ship or any overall plot (This is why there's no "b", no one's cataloged "Aeon's Child").

...none of which is actually clear from the letters, I just thought multiple 1s and 3s might be even more confusing. I want to replace them with terminology that others can make sense of (and edit), but the difficulty was coming up with something succinct and non-spoilery that didn't impose some sort of assumed order on the series that might clash with what Reed intended or future stories. Now that you've got me thinking about it, there's a solution that seems to make sense, so I might just go fix them now. Thanks.

ThirteenthNile által bejegyzett 12:09 pm (EST) -kor a Jan 31, 2013

Thanks very much for the data on the

Lanugage menus, which you gave in

the "What Improvements..." Thread.

I was able to get the expanded list

the last time I tried. have a hard

time keeping control of it -- losing it

before I can click on anything, but

that's my own fault.

rolandperkins által bejegyzett 2:53 am (EST) -kor a Dec 15, 2012

OK, but there really does need to be a way to distinguish different kinds of works and get them listed in different sections of the author page. Some of the author pages that have books, anthologies, and short stories all mixed together are a real mess.

jjwilson61 által bejegyzett 6:48 pm (EST) -kor a Nov 28, 2012

It was the issue. I'll try to correct the title some time later.

howie által bejegyzett 5:13 pm (EST) -kor a Nov 10, 2012

I too am fond of villanelles!

Crypto-Willobie által bejegyzett 7:50 am (EST) -kor a Oct 1, 2012

Yes, you're right, I did cheat but I just love Yiddish Policemen's Union. I wish more people would play too, but I think you and I are the only ones who use the Lists feature. :-)

sturlington által bejegyzett 9:05 am (EST) -kor a Aug 2, 2012

Nice to "e-meet" you.

I did sewing work for a community theater group for a while -- their production of "The Lady's Not for Burning" took me completely by surprise. I hadn't expected the particular mixture of black humor and sweetness, of contemporary attitudes and old-fashioned poetic language. It's still one of my favorite productions, along with Marat/Sade. Which is another play where you would think from the plot summary that it can't possibly work, and yet on the stage it's absolutely fantastic. I seem to have a thing for oddball works.

spiphany által bejegyzett 2:45 am (EST) -kor a May 10, 2012

either works. Sassy AIs are a related interest of mine, which literal killing machines generally have. It sounds similar (but likely more nuanced) to Mark van Name's jon and lobo novels.

knownever által bejegyzett 1:33 pm (EST) -kor a Mar 23, 2012

How do you feelabout George Bernard Shaw?

Your comments on the BISAC choices were very helpful. I put my book
OJI-SPY GIRLS AT THE GATE in for the Benjamin Franklin awards and had to choose between HISTORY and HUMOR. I entered it in the HISTORY category a well as Cover Design. Check out www.ojispygirlatthegate.om. The first chapter is up and a Q&A that will give you a feeling of my writing style. Hopefully I made the right decision.
On the Amazon page whee it is for sale I at least had a choice of multiple categories.

WT Naud

WTNaud által bejegyzett 4:41 pm (EST) -kor a Jan 1, 2012

Thanks for the recommendation on the Tyranny of Structurelessness! Some really good, thought-provoking points in there. It's true that whether you like it or not, people will form a structure of some kind in any group, be it formal or informal. I was really happy to read the essay - to be honest I'd forgotten all about it, so thanks very much for the reminder!!

AndrewBlackman által bejegyzett 4:04 pm (EST) -kor a Dec 31, 2011

Yes, Freddy! I read them rather late -- I was 13 or 14 but starting with Freddy the Detective I plowed through a dozen or more. Later I had scrounged up a few battered used Freddys until they were finally all reissued. I must confess I haven't reread them in recent years except F the D about 10 years ago, but if I retire tomorrow and live forever (keeping my fingers crossed) I certainly will. I thought I had em all but now I see I'm missing Freginald...grrr...

What do you write?

Just noticed the word "yjouhhj" in my previous message to you -- I'm such a terrible typist! that was meant to be :though"

Crypto-Willobie által bejegyzett 9:07 am (EST) -kor a Dec 31, 2011

Thanks, that's very flattering! Yes, I have some catalogued stuff on Central Asia, plus I've got quite a few more books in storage on Central Asian history as well. I had an idea about ten years ago of doing some research on the Il Khanate (the Mongol ascendency in Iran and Iraq after Genghis Khan) and acquired a lot of stuff on Turkic languages and scholarly literature on Central Asian history, culture and religion. Sadly I never really got into that research, so they're sitting in a great case in with a storage company. One day soon I must get 'em out, catalogue 'em and decide whether to shelve or sell 'em! The books in my current catalogue are mostly directed at pre-Islamic or early Islamic history. Please do let me know if there's anything I can help you with. I must add that I work at sea, so don't always have access to the volumes of my own library.

shikari által bejegyzett 5:05 pm (EST) -kor a Dec 27, 2011

Hi, aulsmith, we have very different libraries, so I'm rather curious why you've tagged my library as interesting. (Curiousity is why we read, so I do hope you expect it of me!)

shikari által bejegyzett 2:32 pm (EST) -kor a Dec 27, 2011

Regarding Fundamentals of Astrodynamics: it uses English units.

benmartin79 által bejegyzett 3:57 pm (EST) -kor a May 23, 2011

Thank you for your reviews of the Freddy series; brought back some memories for me.

Cecrow által bejegyzett 1:18 pm (EST) -kor a May 2, 2011

no problem. I'm on vacation till 4/5. I won't be able to do anything with them till then.

GLCC által bejegyzett 11:36 am (EST) -kor a Mar 26, 2011

I get it now! Thank you for explaining that - I had no idea things were once so complicated;-) What you say makes perfect sense now.

Booksloth által bejegyzett 6:05 pm (EST) -kor a Mar 20, 2011

Hi auismith,

Thanks for your response in my thread on colour plates and covers sticking together, please forgive my delayed answer. I was told that the books were damaged in a house fire or rather by the immediately following water damage.

I'll get some books out of the library on book repair, I really can't think what else to do.

Best of life

MammuthusPrimigenius által bejegyzett 1:41 pm (EST) -kor a Mar 8, 2011

Very helpful. Thanks. :o)

drlamy által bejegyzett 3:08 pm (EST) -kor a Feb 25, 2011

Hi aulsmith,

Anyone or any library with an interest in the subject area should join the group. Your comments were really good and I think you have a lot to offer. I'm going to reply/comment on your scanning comments. I work in this field and although copyright is an issue it's not a show stopper. Millions of copyrighted titles have already been digitized. Unfortunately that doesn't include lots of GLBT stuff.

Stay in touch.

Dan

GLCC által bejegyzett 11:11 am (EST) -kor a Jan 27, 2011

I was just about to get to cataloging my fiction, and then the library at the university where I work was ordered to cut its hiolding in half --and as one of the faculty, I was assigned to decide which ones to dispose of and allowed to keep the ones I wanted out of the ones that were cut. A huge temptation-- so I am now cataloging a lot of unexpected additions mostly to my more serious stuff as well as some lighter fiction. Unfortunately the chief librarian is also a mystery fan and did not let me make off with a couple of Bulldog Drummonds, for instance, but I did get a pretty complete set of the Lock and Key Library.

antiquary által bejegyzett 9:17 pm (EST) -kor a Jan 24, 2011

Thank you for including me in your interesting libraties. We share some interesting books and I expect we will share more when I get to cataloging more of my sf and mysteries.

antiquary által bejegyzett 8:04 pm (EST) -kor a Jan 23, 2011

Thanks for the Connie Willis story titles, Billie. I'll have to hunt for them -- I'm sure those books are here someplace!
Maggie

MaggieO által bejegyzett 8:21 am (EST) -kor a Jan 11, 2011

Thanks Billie. Hope all is as well as it can be and getting better.

UGRRHistoryProject által bejegyzett 2:40 pm (EST) -kor a Jan 8, 2011

Hi Billie!
I'm Maggie, from the Beverwyck EGA group (I joined over the summer), and I've seen you at a few meetings. It's really a pleasure to see you here on LT, too. Another LT Needlearts member mentioned to me that she'd seen your post about the Naversom GCC, and I said "Oh, right, some of the members of my Chapter are doing that, too", and then she said, apparently looking at your profile to see where you are, told me "Oh! she's in Albany!". And, making a short story long, that's how I found out that you are an LTer.
I like your idea that we should try to review our needlework books here on LT. I should take your advice and start posting reviews. Maybe that'll be my New Year's resolution.......

Anyhow,
Best wishes for a great holiday season to you and your family, Billie. I'll see you at the next chapter meeting!
Maggie

p.s. AsYouKnow_Bob is my husband. Small world indeed!

MaggieO által bejegyzett 1:32 pm (EST) -kor a Dec 14, 2010

I should talk to people from my craft blog and see if I can get some interest. Maybe get a few beaders/crafters to join LT. It would be great to have a bunch of us here wouldn't it? I know a few other forums I could pop into and drop a hint.

thebeadden által bejegyzett 11:11 pm (EST) -kor a Dec 8, 2010

Coincidentally, I also picked up Catlin's book at the Empire Book Festival. I need to hunt down more of his work. Glad to hear you're Dove & Hudson shoppers. To be fair, I've lugged home a bit more from there over the years, but haven't added it all on here yet.

mattgalletta által bejegyzett 5:34 pm (EST) -kor a Sep 23, 2010

We have quite a bit in common (SF and language sciences). You two seem like interesting enough people, so why are you wasting time policing reviews on LibraryThing?

Move_and_Merge által bejegyzett 12:20 pm (EST) -kor a Aug 15, 2010

Like most children I did not appreciate what I had at the time! Funny how you look at things differently as you get older.

William

wtshehan által bejegyzett 11:59 am (EST) -kor a Dec 19, 2007

Small world: I picked up a copy of Clarke's Against the Fall of Night at the Unitarian sale on the Empire State Plaza Concourse in 2000. It has Billie's bookplate in it.

AsYouKnow_Bob által bejegyzett 11:20 pm (EST) -kor a Dec 2, 2007