[bookshare-discuss] Re: on books from The Apocalyptic to The Plum Thicket
- From: "Evan Reese" <mentat1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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- Date: Thu, 24 Mar 2011 15:26:00 -0400
According to Wikipedia, the sequel to Emergence which was serialized in Analog
in 2008 was called Tracking. Surprising that it wouldn't be on Fantastic
Fiction.
Evan
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From: Mayrie ReNae
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Sent: Thursday, March 24, 2011 3:18 PM
Subject: [bookshare-discuss] Re: on books from The Apocalyptic to The Plum
Thicket
Hi Jim,
I have looked on www.fantasticfiction.com. The only other standalone book by
David R. Palmer was listed as Threshold. Is this, perhaps, the book about
which you're talking? I couldn't find a synopsis of this book, so just figured
I'd ask. If it is, I can get a pretty cheap copy on eBay to scan and add to
the Bookshare collection.
Mayrie
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From: Jim O'Neill [mailto:jimoneill1@xxxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Thursday, March 24, 2011 12:01 PM
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Thicket
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,
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From: Ron Miller [mailto:ron@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Thursday, March 24, 2011 2:45 PM
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Thicket
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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Thicket
Hi Ron,
I did not know that Seeking was a talking book.
Jim,
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From: Ron Miller [mailto:ron@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Thursday, March 24, 2011 1:59 PM
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Thicket
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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Thicket
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,
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From: Ron Miller [mailto:ron@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Thursday, March 24, 2011 1:18 PM
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Thicket
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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Thicket
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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Thicket
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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Thicket
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
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