Hatrack River Forum: An OSC book even I refuse to collect. (It errs on the side of creepiness)

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Posted by CalvinMaker (Member # 2032) on :

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=377&item=6915541005&rd=1

Posted by pooka (Member # 5003) on :

I can't see the fine print. Ah, Cassini Div reviews

Posted by aspectre (Member # 2222) on :

OSC is known for donating books/plates/etc for eBay auctions to help financially strapped ailing authors. It's common enough in the SF crowd.
Odds are you just ran across the site/name of someone holding such an auction.

BTW -- CassiniDivision is one of those SFbook classics that every even semi-serious SFer is expected to have already read.

[ July 27, 2004, 09:07 PM: Message edited by: aspectre ]

Posted by CalvinMaker (Member # 2032) on :

I asked Card in the post script of an email i was sending him tonight, and he mentioned that he gets a bunch of books sent to him for review, and that he gives them away if he doesn't read them, that he just forgot to take out the letter tucked inside.

It's still kind of errs on the creepy side in my opinion, that someone is trying to make money off of it from the fact that it was once in OSC's possession.

Posted by Olivetta (Member # 6456) on :

Not as creepy as somebody selling a celebrity's dirty socks, though.

*thinks*

Actually, I think my brother bought somebody's panties at an AIDS auction at a scifi con of some sort. Denise Crosby, I think. And they were unworn and autographed.

Yes, I do realise that being the least weird sibling in my family isn't really anything to brag about. [Big Grin]

Posted by BannaOj (Member # 3206) on :

I haven't read the Cassini Division, though I did get to see the pictures of the real one hot off the space probe, with a bunch of planetary science geeks. Hatrack makes me feel illiterate at times.

AJ

Posted by Rakeesh (Member # 2001) on :

Who said you're the least-weird, anyway? You? Pfff [Taunt]

Posted by Dan_raven (Member # 3383) on :

I haven't read Cassini Division either.

But then, I haven't seen Denise Crosby's panties either.

Win some, lose some.

Posted by odouls268 (Member # 2145) on :

I remember seeing on MTV that some teenybopper paid a truckload of money for some french toast that was half eaten by NSync member Lance Bass. Now that's creepy.

Posted by Icarus (Member # 3162) on :

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Denise Crosby, I think. And they were unworn . . .

um, what's the point, then?!

Posted by Yozhik (Member # 89) on :

Well, you wouldn't want to catch a disease...