The Taking of Satcon Station (Asher Bockhorn, book 1) by Barney Cohen & Jim Baen

[james_davis_nicoll]

The Taking of Satcon Station (Asher Bockhorn, book 1) by Barney Cohen & Jim Baen

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[jbwoodford]

I can't see that Flandry cover without thinking of THIS.

[(Anonymous)]

That is... I don't know what that is, but I doubt I shall soon forget it.

[redbird]

I am amusing myself with "most sincerely out of print":

"I'm a poor lonely out-of-print book, please take me home from this used bookstore."

"I'm out of print and unappreciated, this cheap-looking paperback is rare and valuable. Worth a lot more than the three dollars the second-hand shop wants for it."

"I'm out of print, and I like it that way." *hides in the attic to avoid being scanned, OCR'd, and put up on the Internet Archive*

*weeps* "I've been out of print for years, you could get the reprint rights for a couple of bucks, there's a real market for Westerns IN SPACE....Wait, come back, don't you care?" *more tears*

[james_davis_nicoll]

A detail I left out: all ethnic descriptors were lower case. E.g. “hispanic”. This a style thing or a political thing?

[ba_munronoe]

3: Admittedly, there are folks today who prefer hundred-year-old books.

1919 definitely had some good books: https://www.goodreads.com/book/popular_by_date/1919

[beamjockey]

Hmm. While it's true #13, The Mark of Zorro, first appeared in print in All Story Weekly's 9 August 1919 issue under the title "The Curse of Capistrano," it didn't become a book until-- at this point* I need to Google-- 1924, taking on the title of its swashbuckling 1920 film adaptation.

So it's quite legitimate to count it as a 1919 book, but you can see why its presence on the list caused a bump in my mental road.



*I have inadvertently become a part-time Zorro expert. Long story.

[scott_sanford]

It is so in keeping with the people around James that we should happen onto a part-time Zorro expert. If this were a roleplaying game you might be complaining about the poor prospects of breaking into the full-time professional Zorro expert circuit.

[kgbooklog]

I’ll grant that few people in the early Reagan era foresaw that smoking would become unfashionable

When did it become unfashionable? Clarke's Ghost from the Grand Banks (1990) had a major character whose job was to remove cigarette smoke from classic films. OTOH, Erikson's Rejoice, a Knife to the Heart (2018) had almost all the sympathetic chars smoking or vaping.

[(Anonymous)]

Some historic photos exist in versions with smoking apparatus removed.

1950: British research links smoking with lung cancer.

1964: American research agrees.

1980: British (?) comics villain Nick O'Teen is confronted by Superman while inducing young people to take up smoking.

1604: King James VI of Scotland and I of England writes and publishes "A Counterblaste to Tobacco".