F&SF: 1949 – Present

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I don’t remember if I blogged about this previously or not, but last year I bought a complete run of F&SF from a long-time fan, who no longer had the room to store his collection. It took me a while to get around to it, but I finally got them all unpacked. Behold. That’s all of them.

Well, except for the November 1983 issue. That appears to be the only one I’m missing. Anyone have one they wouldn’t mind parting with?

Also pictured here are my new 5-shelf bookcases, on top of which you can see I’ve stacked smaller 2-shelf bookcases. The 5-shelfers are all screwed together for stability, as are the 2-shelfers, but I need to attach the 2-shelfers to the 5-shelfers with shims or something (as suggested in the comments to a previous post).

In addition to F&SF issues, you’ll also see some other stuff on the shelves. For instance, there’s a complete run of F&SF‘s sister publiation, Venture, which didn’t last very long (it had two brief runs in the 50s and 60s), and a few F&SF anthologies. Below that are some misc. short fiction magazines and graphic novels.

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Oh well, it seems the restoration of comments was a futile endeavor. Whenever they’re active, I get so much comment spam that it’s a burden to my server.

Anyone have any suggestions as to what I can use instead? When I had the comments linked to the Rumor Mill, it seemed like no one wanted to comment there. Or perhaps no one would have commented anyway…

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The comments on my blog have been re-activated. Huzzah! Well, maybe. We’ll see how it goes. If you want to avoid comment moderation, try signing up with TypeKey. That’ll make sure your comment gets posted right away.

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Dear Vast Network of Contacts:

Do any of you have connections at Irving Plaza in New York, or at Ticketmaster, or are otherwise able to procure highly-sought-after concert tickets? My Mom is an insane (insane!) Chris Daughtry fan, and she desperately wants to go see him in concert. Tix to the Irving Plaza show go on sale on Wednesday at noon, and Mother is concerned about not being able to get tix in the mad rush (someone at Irving Plaza wished her a skeptical “Good Luck” when she called to find out more information about the show). So I just want to make sure she gets the tix, because she’ll be terribly disappointed if she doesn’t get to see him. Anyone got any connections, or failing that, advice? I’ve never actually tried to get concert tix to an event that was likely to sell out before.

Incidentally, the Ticketmaster website was driving me fucking insane the other day, because it has this rule about too many page views per IP address or something, and it was only letting me view like three or four pages. Turns out this is not as stupid as it seemed; the reason it was shutting me out is because of the Google Accelerator program, which is supposed to speed up your web browsing. Because of the way it works (something about pre-fetching pages, I think?), it causes the server of the sites you visit to be hit more often, or something like that. So if you use Google Accelerator, be aware that that might happen on some websites. When it does, you can turn it off, or you can go into the preferences, where you can add certain websites to the “do not accelerate” list. Wikipedia is another one that needs to be added (well, if you want to be able to edit pages, anyway–if you just want to view, it’s fine, I think).

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Speaking of Locus… their annual Locus Award poll is now online. Ballots must be completed by April 15 (just like your taxes!).

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