And three days ago I wrote about Tiptree. And this morning I stopped at the Westport Road Half-Price Books and saw a lovely hardback copy of Crown of Stars. (But it was $9.99, and there's a copy of it in the U of L library, so I reluctantly passed it up.) And after I picked Jacqueline up from her day program she asked if I would take her to Half-Price, so I took her to the Hurstbourne store. And found this bit of loveliness on the aforementioned spinner rack:
So there it is.
How do you like your blue-eyed boy?
Oh, one more thing. Not a coincidence, just a bit of loveliness. Also on the spinner rack were several Harlan Ellison books: The Beast That Shouted Love at the Heart of the World, Phoenix Without Ashes, and Strange Wine. All of which I own, so even though I was very happy to see them, I left them for someone else. But also also on the spinner rack were several Barry Malzberg books: Beyond Apollo, Scop, and a couple of others that looked familiar but which I've forgotten. But I passed them by since (1) I'd just read Beyond Apollo a little while ago, (2) I'm trying not to buy too many more books, (3) I already have a stack of books I really want to read, and (3) money money money . . . money. Even though I dearly love Barry Malzberg. But when I saw
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well, you know. It wasn't like I had a choice, right? I mean, I didn't even know that this book existed . . . and I read a whole lot of Barry Malzberg back in the day.
Speaking of in the day, whilst perusing Malzberg titles to see if I could jog my memory as to what I'd seen on the spinner rack, I came upon this bit of information: The Way of the Tiger, The Sign of the Dragon [Kung Fu #1] was actually written by Malzberg under the pen name Howard Lee. And I have that book! I really loved Kung Fu back in the day, too. So it IS a small world after all.
Or something like that.
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