04/26/04 MON:
---Rec’d a catalog a couple days ago from Five Star, a division of Gale, which seems to be publishing some interesting SF titles. I had a few in my order file and was planning to get an order out eventually, but I haven’t always had the best luck with Gale--a library-oriented publisher with expensive books and short discounts. Now it looks like I might fare a bit better with Five Star. I couldn’t find the titles that were in my order file in their catalog, but there were some others that looked promising. I will save their forthcoming titles for another order, so as not to have them be trickling in by ones and twos. Here is what I am trying for now: ARISTOTLE AND THE GUN / de Camp, DEUS X AND OTHER STORIES / Spinrad, IMMERSION AND OTHER SHORT NOVELS / Benford, UNCANNY TALES / Sheckley, GOD IS AN IRON / Spider Robinson, RETRIEVAL ARTIST / Rusch, STAR SONG / Zahn.

---Speaking of orders, I still haven’t rec’d the one I sent to Warner a while ago. Maybe I will have to initiate inquiries.

---Email sent:
Things are starting dry out here. Looks like I will have to haul out the lawnmower later today.
To answer your question about Poul Anderson's GOING FOR INFINITY (first published in 2002), quoting from the dj copy: it is "both a celebration and a memoir of Anderson's distinguished sixty-year career in sf & fantasy. Along with several Hugo and Nebula Award-winning stories, Anderson also shares autobiographical musings and fond memories as he looks back at a lifetime spent crafting many of sf's most memorable adventures." (416 pages)
I don't believe I did try for:
> Daniel Rothman's Yes, Philip, Androids Dream Electric Sheep is for a modified
> clarinet that is played and sounds idiomatically but is also a computer
> interface. In this work, tuned clarinet multiphonics are filtered and used
> in a feedback situation. The CD is available through CDeMusic.org, an online
> music resource for new music. If this is not the information you need,
> please don't hesitate to write back. Can you tell us where you found out
> about this CD?
> Los Angeles River Records
unless it was when you first asked and I did not receive a reply. At any rate, it looks like maybe I could get it through CDeMusic.org. Are there any others from this outfit you might be after?
I have added your new orders to my order file. I hope I can get a few of them sent out soon. Thanks!

Yours,
Chris

---Disc Log:
- Lou Reed THE RAVEN (Xgau: B Plus)
- Johannes Regis TWO MASSES
- my CD COMP 24 (free for the asking - if you want to hear it too)