On Wed, 3 Jan 2024 15:34:09 -0500, Tony Nance <
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wrote:
On 1/1/24 1:19 PM, Dave wrote:
On 12/31/23 06:29, James Nicoll wrote:
The Gold at the Starbow's End by Frederik Pohl
Five stories from famed SF satirist Frederik Pohl.
https://jamesdavisnicoll.com/review/gateway-to-adventure
I have this book somewhere. If it is outside in the shed, it is probably
a moldy mess.
Three of the five stories are in The Gold at the Starbow's End also
appear in the collection Platinum Pohl. "Sad Solarian Screenwriter Sam"
and "Call Me Million" are the two that do not.
This tendency made deciding which short-story collections to purchase,
even when not constrained by what was actually available, so complex I
actually needed a spreadsheet listing, in the first column, each and
every short story, and then those in each collection in the other
columns (ignoring here the column used to count the hits and so
identify those short stories not available in a collection even in
theory).
All to try and find a set of collections with maximal coverage and
minimal overlap.
--
"Here lies the Tuscan poet Aretino,
Who evil spoke of everyone but God,
Giving as his excuse, 'I never knew him.'"
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