| T.R | Title | User | Personal
Name | Date | Lines |
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| 415.1 | would you believe next year? | HERMES::LOWE | Chris Lowe | Tue Nov 25 1986 20:19 | 8 |
| I read somewhere...(AHA, Starlog, of course) that it may be out in
...1987! if he has time to finish it with all the other projects
that he is working on.
Chris
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| 415.2 | _Rage for Revenge_ | OASS::MDILLSON | | Tue Feb 14 1989 15:25 | 12 |
| _A Rage for Revenge_, the paperback edition of Volume 3 of "The
War Against the Cthorr" will be released in March of 1989. That's
the good news.
The bad news is the other two volumes are being re-released with
50% additional material which Gerrold says is essential to
understanding the Cthorr.
More bad news.....
Volume *4* of the trilogy (who does he think he is, Douglas Adams?)
will be published in spring, 1990.
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| 415.3 | | ASABET::BOYAJIAN | Klactovedesteen! | Wed Feb 15 1989 04:00 | 5 |
| re:.2
"Four volume trilogies" were not the invention of Douglas Adams.
--- jerry
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| 415.4 | Yep | OASS::MDILLSON | | Wed Feb 15 1989 12:54 | 2 |
| I know that, Jerry. But he's the only author that I knew of that
advertised a book as "Book 4 in the Hitchhiker Trilogy".
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| 415.5 | | ASABET::BOYAJIAN | Klactovedesteen! | Wed Feb 15 1989 14:18 | 14 |
| re:.4
Well, yes, he was the only one who *deliberately* advertised it
as such, but I wasn't just referring to trilogies that happened
to be expanded to four (or more) books. There were a couple of
instances predating HITCHHIKER in which the phrase "fourth book
in the such-and-such trilogy" was (unintentionally) used.
Doubleday, for instance, had gone so far as to print up dustjackets
for FOUNDATION'S EDGE which had the blurb "The fourth book in the
Foundation Trilogy". After Asimov pointed out the error to them,
they changed "trilogy" to "series".
--- jerry
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| 415.6 | | OASS::MDILLSON | | Wed Feb 15 1989 14:34 | 3 |
| Ghod only knows how many so-called "trilogies" have expanded beyond
their scheduled size. Some of them should not have, but that, as
they say, is another topic.
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| 415.7 | Breathe Ether! :-) | STRATA::RUDMAN | P51--Cadillac of the Skies! | Fri Feb 17 1989 15:57 | 3 |
| re: -.1 Not good enough. Run on your sword.
Don
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| 415.8 | RAGE is good! | ISWSW::VILAINMI | WONDERLAND, next exit... | Wed Apr 05 1989 20:21 | 7 |
| I just finished RAGE FOR REVENGE and really enjoyed it. Sources
close to David say that there are around *7* books in this "trilogy".
Sigh. I guess I'll have to wait until David gets the urge to produce
a TV series out of his system and starts on volume 4.
/MeV/
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| 415.9 | | OASS::MDILLSON | | Wed Apr 05 1989 20:30 | 4 |
| God willing, we won't have to wait for volume 4 as long as we did
for volume 3. And, so help me ghu, if he re-writes the series again
to put out volume 4, I'm gonna tell the Freeway Sniper what kind
of car he drives!
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| 415.10 | Never trust a bunnydog.. | WHELIN::TASCHEREAU | STOP the planet; I'm gettin off. | Thu Apr 06 1989 12:59 | 6 |
|
According to the inside cover, book 4 is due out in spring of 1990.
I recently re-purchased book #1 in order to read the "essential-
50% new material". If he does re-write the series again, I'm
gonna mail a small reddish-purple worm with big black eyes
to his house.
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| 415.11 | Bunnydogs, hell! | OASS::MDILLSON | | Thu Apr 06 1989 13:43 | 7 |
| Nah, we'll send a Greyhound bus-sized work to his house.
---------------------------------------------------------------
Q. What does a Chtorran call an SF writer?
A. Indigestion on the hoof.
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| 415.12 | | PFLOYD::ROTHBERG | Get the priest as well... | Sun Jun 25 1989 22:37 | 15 |
|
Okay, I just finished the third book. How much
new material was added to the first two??? Are
they really necessary to reread? I hate waiting
for books in a continuing series ... anybody
know where I can find hardcover Mission Earth
books? I've read 1-4 and I really don't want to
pay the publishing company $15 a shot to finish
that series. Wrong note for that, but I just
thought I'd mention it. I really like the Chtorr
series. The guy is definately into philosophy
and he really gets you thinking ...
- rob -
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| 415.13 | Worms, worms everywhere... | WHELIN::TASCHEREAU | Caught with my windows down. | Tue Jun 27 1989 12:41 | 12 |
| I guess what you have to ask yourself is: Having read book 3 and
(I assume) the original books 1 & 2, do you find any gaps in the
story line? If so, go get the new versions of books 1 & 2. If no
then save your money.
Personally, I read the originals when they came out, and then read
the new books 1 & 2 when they appeared (years later); and though
I didn't get out my originals and make page by page comparisons
to see exactly what changes had been made, I feel that I could have
skipped buying the new 1 & 2 and not missed much at all.
-Steve
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| 415.14 | | ISWSW::VILAINMI | not in front of the Klingons... | Fri Jul 14 1989 00:24 | 21 |
| My initial reaction on reading Book 3 was that I didn't remember
anything mentioned in either 1 or 2 about "worm song" or Jim's reaction
to it. It is a critical part of Book 3 and there was no mention
of it in the orginal Book 1 and 2.
David said he added more stuff about the biology of the worms in these
revised editions. True, you don't need to buy them if you have the
orginals.
Any comments on the lymerics in Book 3? Some were so bad I read
them to people here at the office...
/MeV/
<spoiler on Book 2 follows>
I also don't recall _why_ the attempts to communicate with the worms
failed in the original Book 2, just that it did. After reading
the new Book 2, I understand that the worms will always view us
as _food_. The herd song just signals the worms that we're ready
to be eaten.
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