[bookshare-discuss] Re: on books from The Apocalyptic to The Plum Thicket

  • From: "Duane Iverson" <diverson@xxxxxxxxx>
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  • Date: Thu, 24 Mar 2011 19:35:51 -0500

The sequel to Emergence was published as a cerial in Analog.
Early 2010 I think.

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  From: Evan Reese 
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  Yes, Emergence is listed in the NLS catalogue as being on tape, but not on 
BARD. The sequel is not listed, not even inprocess.

  Evan

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    From: Jim O'Neill 
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    Hi Ron,

     

    Yeah, I read that one,  but like I said there was a second book that came 
out in analog sf magazine in 2008

     

    It was about Candy going to Russia to find her father.

     

     

     

    Jim,

     

    jimoneill1@xxxxxxxxxxx

     

    From: Ron Miller [mailto:ron@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] 
    Sent: Thursday, March 24, 2011 2:45 PM
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    Hi Jim,

    It is, and includes the entire story. Look for RC 24565.

     

    Best regards

     

    Ron Miller

    From: Jim O'Neill [mailto:jimoneill1@xxxxxxxxxxx] 
    Sent: Thursday, March 24, 2011 2:25 PM
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    Hi Ron,

     

    I did not know that Seeking was a talking book.

     

     

     

    Jim,

     

    jimoneill1@xxxxxxxxxxx

     

    From: Ron Miller [mailto:ron@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] 
    Sent: Thursday, March 24, 2011 1:59 PM
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    Hi Jim,

    Yes, I actually read them both as a talking book, years ago. Very fine 
stories.

     

    Ron Miller

    From: Jim O'Neill [mailto:jimoneill1@xxxxxxxxxxx] 
    Sent: Thursday, March 24, 2011 1:30 PM
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    Did you read the sequel I think that it was called Seeking.  It came out in 
the September 2008 issue of analog I think.

     

    Jim,

     

    jimoneill1@xxxxxxxxxxx

     

    From: Ron Miller [mailto:ron@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] 
    Sent: Thursday, March 24, 2011 1:18 PM
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    I had forgotten about emergence. It was fantastic, I first read it 
serialized in analog back in the 1980s. 

     

    I keep almost reading "Damnation Alley" by roger Zelazney, which was also 
made into a movie with the same title-though I don't know if the movie stuck 
very closely to the book's plot.

     

    Best to all

     

    Ron Miller

    From: Mayrie ReNae [mailto:mayrierenae@xxxxxxxxx] 
    Sent: Thursday, March 24, 2011 7:06 AM
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    Hi Bob,

     

    I adore the quote in your sig file!

     

    Another postapocolyptic book, the only one I've ever read is "Emergence" by 
David R. Palmer.  Bookshare doesn't have it, but I'll see if I can get  a copy 
cheap somewhere.

     

    Here's its synopsis.

     

    Book Description:
                   Immune from the effects of a bionuclear war that
                      has destroyed most of humanity, an eleven-year-old girl
                      realizes that she represents a new stage in human
    evolution.
                      Recording her thoughts and experiences in a diary, she
    sets
                      out across a scarred America seeking others of her kind.

    Mayrie

      

     


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    From: Bob W [mailto:rwiley45@xxxxxxxxxxx] 
    Sent: Thursday, March 24, 2011 2:31 AM
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    Hi Lissi.

     

    I never ever read children's books, never! (I ain't one, I ain't got none, 
and I don't want none.)

     

    But your description of the "plumb thicket"'s main character and her 
approach to books is so intriguing that I want to encourage you to hurry and 
get it in the collection so I can read it.

     

    Bob (the grump)

     


    A learning experience is one of those things that says, 'You know that 
thing you just did? Don't do that.' Douglas Adams  

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      From: Estelnalissi 

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      Sent: Wednesday, March 23, 2011 8:31 PM

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      Dear  Booksharian Friends,

       

      Thanks to all of you who contributed to the discussion on post 
apocalyptic books and especially to Bob W. for starting it. The detail in which 
these books were described helps me to decide which to read. I've only read 
three of them of which, The Postman, the book, not the movie, was my favorite. 
It was hopeful, inspiring  and exciting.

       

      In a few days I'll be checking in The Plum Thicket by Janice Holt Giles. 
'The copyright is 1954 so some of you who enjoy books written then might want 
to check it out. Whether you like her work in general, I think most of you 
might share some of its eight-year-old narrator's views on books and reading. 

       

      "I stood before the rows of books, undecided, all of their bindings, all 
of their titles, alluring. I cannot remember when I did not have a love for 
books amounting to reverence; my passion for reading is so deep that it is 
actually an addiction, like the drug habit. I would read the telephone 
directory if nothing else were available. But not only is opening a book, any 
book, any time, an adventure which makes my pulse beat faster, I love books 
also for their own sake. I like to hold in my hand a beautiful book, feel its 
quality and texture, smell it and, I can think of no better word, love it. I 
particularly love the old leather bindings, such as those on my grandfather's 
shelves, and I particularly love, too, the heavy, torn paper and the exquisite 
type which many of them had. A beautiful book is truly a work of art.

      What should it be? Scott? Thackeray? Trollope? Brontë? Tentatively I took 
down Madame Bovary. I knew Grandfather greatly appreciated Flaubert But the 
text was in French. Regretfully I put it back. The Dickens shelf was next, and 
with a kind of homing instinct I picked out David Copperfield. I had read it 
twice already, but it was always irresistible."

       

      Always with love,

       

      Lissi

       

      Here is the information from the dust jacket:

       

       

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