Book Buying over the weekend

[sraun]

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!


[Format: Title; Author - Inspiring Song]
Introduction; Janis Ian
Come Dance with Me; Terry Bisson - At Seventeen
The Scents of Trumpets, the Voices of Smoke; Tad Williams - Joan
Finding My Shadow; Joe Haldeman - Here In The City
Ride Me Like a Wave; Jane Yolen - Ride Me Like A Wave
In Fading Suns and Dying Moons; John Varley - Aftertones
On the Other Side; Mercedes Lackey - On the Other Side
Nightmare Mountain; Kage Baker - Nightmare Mountain
On the Edge; Gregory Benford - Guess You Had To Be There
Two Faces of Love; Tanith Lee
Face 1: When the Silence Calls Your Name - When the Silence Falls
The Fiddle Plays Until It Aches - Forever Young
Immortality; Robert J. Sawyer - Society’s Child
Hunger; Robert Scheckley - Hunger
Society’s Stepchild; Susan R. Matthews - Society’s Child
Murdering Stravinsky or Two Sit-Downs in Paris; Barry N. Malzberg - Murdering Stravinsky
Society’s Goy; Mike Resnick - Society’s Child
Second Person Unmasked; Janis Ian - His Hands
Play Like a Girl; Kristine Kathryn Rusch - Play Like a Girl
All in a Blaze; Stephen Baxter - Stars
Cartoons; Alexis Gilliland -
Between the Lines
Cosmopolitan Girl
Rate My Music
Applause
Old Photographs; Susan Casper - Photographs
Ej-Es; Nancy Kress - Jesse
You Don’t Know My Heart; Spider Robinson - You Don’t Know My Heart
Riding Janis; David Gerrold - If We had Wings
East of the Sun, West of Acousticville; Judith Tarr - Welcome to Acousticville
Hopper Painting; Diane Duane - Hopper Painting
An Indeterminate State; Kay Kenyon - Society’s Child
This House; Sharon Lee & Steve Miller - This House
Calling Your Name; Howard Waldrop - Calling Your Name
Shadow in the City; Dean Wesley Smith - Here in the City
Joe Steele; Harry Turtledove - god & the fbi
Inventing Lovers on the Phone; Orson Scott Card - At Seventeen

Anyone a confirmed Janis Ian fan with copies of all the songs? I'd kind of like to get a compilation disk - an MP3 collection would be fine. I recognize Janis' name, but don't actually recall anything she's done!


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!

Comments

[davidwilford.livejournal.com]

At Torcon Erin and I had just met Rusty Hevelin to do lunch outside the convention centre (yes, I can spell in Canadian) when a dimunitive woman out on a cigarette break saw Rusty and said hi. Turned out to be Janis Ian and we had a short but very pleasant chat before going to our restaurant. (Turned out that Joe Haldeman is one of her favorite authors, which is how she met Rusty.) Soon after we got back, I noted there was a panel where many of the authors of the Stars anthology were going to be signing the new book, so not missing the opportunity I booked on up the the dealer's room and scored a copy of Stars from Larry Smith and stood in line with Erin to meet, greet, and get signed. Janis Ian is definitely one of those bigger than life people, but is still really nice!

Janis MP3s

[eileenlufkin.livejournal.com]

If you cut the URL in the worldcon report back to www.janisian.com, you get to her home page where she offers free MP3s. (with options to make donations through paypal.)