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Title:Arcana Caelestia
Notice:Directory listings are in topic 2
Moderator:NETRIX::thomas
Created:Thu Dec 08 1983
Last Modified:Fri Jun 06 1997
Last Successful Update:Fri Jun 06 1997
Number of topics:1300
Total number of notes:18728

603.0. ""2150", not "2105" nor "2051"" by --UnknownUser-- () Thu Apr 07 1988 20:12

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603.1answerSWSMKT::HJONESWed Apr 13 1988 17:288
    The title is 2015.  I hve no idea who wrote it, but I know it's
    buried somewhere in my basement.  I'll look for it.
    
    I thought it was a pretty bizarre story, but I've read it about
    3 times now.
    
    helen
    
603.2AKOV11::BOYAJIANThat was Zen, this is TaoThu Apr 14 1988 06:396
    re:.1
    
    Perhaps you mean 2051 (subtitled "A Macro Love Story") by Thea
    Alexander?
    
    --- jerry
603.3SWSMKT::HJONESThu Apr 14 1988 12:3310
    You're right.  I haven't read it since my senior year of high
    school, so the memory was a little muffled.  It would probably
    be a good thing to dig it up and read it over now, just to 
    try and understand a lot of the things that (understandably) went
    over my head the last time I read it.
    
    Thanks, Jerry
    
    helen
    
603.5AKOV11::BOYAJIANThat was Zen, this is TaoFri Apr 15 1988 03:5518
    re:.4
    
    It's not currently in print, at least not to my knowledge, and
    hasn't been for a while (since about the late 70's, I'd say).
    
    A pedantic publishing history:
    
    The story was first published in 1971 as 2150: THE MACRO LOVE
    STORY by the Macro Development Center, and under the by-line
    of Don & Thea Plym. The impression I get from the book is that
    the Macro Development Center was a communal society type thingie
    and the book was a science fictional extrapolation of the idea
    (I never read the book, myself).
    
    A revised edition, titled simply 2150 A.D., was published under
    the name Thea Alexander in the mid-70's by Warner Books.
    
    --- jerry
603.6OK, who stole my coal-miner hat?SWSMKT::HJONESFri Apr 15 1988 16:479
    ::KATS -
    
    If you'd like, I'll scrounge around and try to find my copy.
    It shouldn't be too hard to find.  I'll take a poke in the
    basement this weekend.
    
    helen
    
    
603.8'2051' at B.Dalton'sSTEREO::GOULDThis space for rent.Fri Apr 15 1988 20:105
    Just for your info, I saw '2051' in B.Dalton about a month ago,
    I glanced at it, but I didn't get it.  Perhaps they've re-released
    it and you could order it through a bookstore.
    
    /dana gould/
603.9There are dead things down thereSWSMKT::HJONESTue Apr 19 1988 19:0210
    George,
    
    Perhaps it would be best if you poked around in B.Dalton, etc.
    I did some scavenging in the ol' cellar and found everything but
    2150.  (Danny and the Dinosaur, and all those books I bought
    from the Scholastic Book Club in 6th grade......)
    
    Sorry I couldn't be more help.
    
    helen
603.10Why oh why?DICKNS::KLAESIt's not the real Grail?!Wed Apr 20 1988 17:2711
    	Why did the Noter of the Base Note delete all of her Notes in
    this Topic?  She wrote an interesting description of the novel which
    is now gone.
    
    	I also think the title of this Topic should be changed to indicate
    what SF novel is being discussed here.  It would make those looking
    for 2150 in the future with the DIR/TITLE=topicname command have
    an easier task.
    
    	Larry
    
603.11Title changedDELNI::CANTORDave C.Thu Apr 21 1988 01:158
      Re .10
      
      Title changed to more-or-less something reasonable.
      
      Yes, it IS too bad about the disappearance of the topic note.
      
      Dave C.
      asst moderator
603.13I've got a copy, anyone want it?SCOTCH::FUSCIDEC has it (on backorder) NOW!Sat Apr 23 1988 15:138
>    A revised edition, titled simply 2150 A.D., was published under
>    the name Thea Alexander in the mid-70's by Warner Books.

If anyone's interested, I have a copy of this book, that I would be willing
to part with.  Send me some mail if you're interested.  It's in excellent 
condition, and I'd be more interested in a swap than anything else.

Ray