Ahh, your absolutely right. Mushroom was his cat. He was definitely fond of Mushroom.
I found used trade paperback copies of Tuf Voyaging on Amazon starting at $2.10. Used hardcovers start around $22 and there is only one used mass market paperback coming up for a rather steep $12.95. I hadn't heard of A Taste of Tuf.
Evan----- Original Message ----- From: "Ron Miller" <ron@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <bookshare-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Friday, March 14, 2008 9:13 AM Subject: [bookshare-discuss] Re: characters that make you smile Good morning, I really liked the Tuf stories in analog. I believe, Mushroom was actually his cat. I couldn't find the tuf Voyaging book in a cursory Google search, but found that Audible.com has an unabridged title by George R. R. martin called A Taste Of tuf which might be interesting. best to all Ron Miller -----Original Message----- From: EVAN REESE [mailto:mentat3@xxxxxxxxxxx] Sent: Thursday, March 13, 2008 3:49 PM To: bookshare-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [bookshare-discuss] Re: characters that make you smile There was a great set of stories published in Analog back in the eighties by George R. R. Martin about a guy named Havlin Tuff. They were collected in one volume called Tuff voyaging. Tuff was kind of like Nero Wolfe in some ways, with a great fondness for mushrooms if my memory isn't failing me. He traveled around in this huge ship which he acquired by means I forget at the moment, and getting into various troubles. Evan----- Original Message ----- From: "duane iverson" <diverson@xxxxxxxxxx>
To: <bookshare-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Wednesday, March 12, 2008 10:05 PM Subject: [bookshare-discuss] Re: characters that make you smile
A little Science Fiction. For characters you can't beat the Hokah. Meter-tall teddy bears who
like
to imitate other cultures. The Old Star Trek episode where Kirk and company land on a planet much like 1920's Chicago is a pale tribute to
Poul Anderson and Gordon Dixon's stories. The complete Hokah stories
are
collected in The Sound and The Furry up on Bookshare. I am luckey
enough
to have preserved The Many Worlds of Pooul Anderson read by (who else)
Robert Donley. In there is the Sheriff of Canyon Gulch Which will roll
you
on the floor. even when you have read it before. Also try the High
Crusade
by Anderson. If you can find Double Star by Heinlein. Good but not as good as the version read by Allen Hewitt. (Eat your hearts out people! I believe there is a good anthology on NLS edited by Stan Schmidt on humorous Sci Fi. Also Charles Sheffield's The Complete McAndrew is good. He wrote a
number
of stories about an attorney named Waldo who was always getting in to scrapes, but I don't know if they were ever collected. They were an
old in
the Old Galaxy Magazine back in the 70's.----- Original Message ----- From: "susan l. gerhart" <slger123@xxxxxxxxx>To: <bookshare-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Wednesday, March 12, 2008 6:47 PM Subject: [bookshare-discuss] Re: characters that make you smile amanda cross byc. heilbrun. drinking english ny prof dic. Wed, 12 Mar 2008 19:20:11 -0400, Estelnalissi wrote:Dear Booksharian Friends, Junie B Jones, Kindergartener and First Grader always makes me smile. I'm validating Junie B. Jones Is Captain Field Day this afternoon and Bookshare will soon have all of the books in both of the Junie B. Series.Junie B. is right up there with Ramona. Amelia Peabody is funny and Emerson, Father of Curses, such a blow
hard,
is no slouch, either! Agatha Raisin, who calls her female competition, "Old Trouts," Cheats
in
contests, bites off people's heads and gets her feelings easily hurt, cracks me up in the cozy mysteries by M. C. Beaton. My dear soft hearted Hagrid, in Harry Potter, who mops up his tears
with
tablecloths, knits and makes excuses for all creatures, even when they draw blood, lightens the mood and is my kind of hero. Touchy, self important, Hercule Perrot is mildly funny. I don't laugh out loud at him, but have to smile. Nero Wolfe and Archie are funny. Archie thinks he's such a babe and
Nero
is so spoiled. Archie is about the only person alive who would dare be sarcastic about or to Nero, but he thinks his boss has cornered the market when it comes to brains, and is ever loyal. And Stephanie Plum, that whole series makes me laugh out loud. Janet Evanovitch Rocks. Grandma Mazer, fan of funerals and grabber of high caliber weaponry, and Lula the ex hoe, diet queen, and the one who
eggs
people on in dangerous situations from her safe hiding place behind a couch which is big enough to conceal her, or from behind a mop where everything hangs out but she still thinks she's hiding. I may never
get
over Stephanie and Lula at the Elvis impersonators convention in Las Vegas! Can anyone remind me of the southern widow's name who is funny, too. She's in books like Blank takes a stand. Her dead husband left her
well
off and she took in his mistress and her young son. She lives across
the
street from a church where she terrorizes the minister. To raise money to save a trailer park she rides in a motor cycle rally practically kicking and screaming the whole way while I, the reader, was jealous. I admire authors who write humor. I'm impressed when they pull off a little humor. When they write series sustaining humor throughout
entire
novels I'm agog! When I think about it, it seems successful writers of the humor fiction genre are the rarest. Any thoughts about that? Always with love, Lissi----- Original Message ----- From: rita weylerTo: bookshare-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Sent: Wednesday, March 12, 2008 4:40 PM Subject: [bookshare-discuss] characters that make you smile Hi all Their are certain books that are always good for a smile. I love the Mrs. Pollifax books. I can just picture this feisty grandmotherly character taking on theCIA . I like Ellis Peter's irrasible Amelia Peabody too. What characters can you turn to for a guaranteed smile? Rita Dear Booksharian Friends, Junie B Jones, Kindergartener and First Grader always makes me smile. I'm validating Junie B. Jones Is Captain Field Day this afternoon and Bookshare will soon have all of the books in both
of
the Junie B. Series.Junie B. is right up there with Ramona. Amelia Peabody is funny and Emerson, Father of Curses, such a blow hard, is no slouch, either! Agatha Raisin, who calls her female competition, "Old Trouts," Cheats in contests, bites off people's heads and gets
her
feelings easily hurt, cracks me up in the cozy mysteries by M. C. Beaton.
My
dear soft hearted Hagrid, in Harry Potter, who mops up his tears with tablecloths, knits and makes excuses for all creatures, even when they draw blood, lightens the mood and is my kind of hero. Touchy, self important, Hercule Perrot is mildly funny. I don't laugh out loud at him, but have to smile. Nero
Wolfe
and Archie are funny. Archie thinks he's such a babe and Nero is so spoiled. Archie is about the only person alive who would dare be sarcastic about or to Nero, but he thinks his boss has cornered the market when it comes to brains, and is ever loyal. And
Stephanie
Plum, that whole series makes me laugh out loud. Janet Evanovitch Rocks. Grandma Mazer, fan of funerals and grabber of high caliber weaponry, and Lula the ex hoe, diet queen, and the one who eggs people on in dangerous situations from her safe hiding place behind a couch which is big enough to conceal her, or from behind a mop where everything hangs out but she still thinks she's hiding. I may never get over Stephanie and Lula at the Elvis impersonators convention in Las Vegas! Can anyone remind me of the southern widow's name who is funny, too. She's in books like Blank takes a stand. Her dead husband left her well off and she took in his mistress and her young son. She lives across the street from a church where she terrorizes the minister. To raise money to save a trailer park she rides in a motor cycle rally practically kicking and screaming the whole way while I, the reader, was jealous. I admire authors who write humor. I'm impressed when they pull off a little humor. When they write series sustaining humor throughout entire novels I'm agog! When I think about it, it seems successful writers of the humor fiction genre are the rarest. Any thoughts about that? Always with love, Lissi ----- Original Message ----- From:
rita
weyler To: bookshare-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Sent: Wednesday,
March
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