Book Buying over the weekend

Friday

Stars, Original Stories Based on the Songs of Janis Ian
544 pages, hardbound, DAW, edited by Janis Ian and Mike Resnick

Hard-bound? Anthology? All new stories? 544 pages? In today's market? What gives? Find a copy and read the introduction, and you'll get an idea. Oh - the list of contributing authors is really impressive!

( TOC (with Song Titles) )

If you haven't read Janis' write-up of her first worldcon, go read it here. It's great!

Sunday

The Origami Handbook, Rick Beech, hardbound
Eternal Frontier, James H. Schmitz, edited by Eric Flint, trade paper
The Demolished Man, Alfred Bester, trade paper
The Stars My Destination, Alfred Bester, trade paper
Paths of the Dead, Steven Brust, mass market

Paths of the Dead was free - Borders was having a 'Buy 3 Paperbacks, Get the 4th Free' - and Trade Papers counted!

And what grade level do you write YOUR LJ at?

Courtesy of technomom

sraun's Flesch-Kincaid Grade Level: 10
Average number of words per sentence:	20.31
Average number of syllables per word:	1.48
Total words in sample:	914
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