Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site topaz.ARPA Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxr!ihnp4!zehntel!tektronix!decvax!genrad!panda!talcott!harvard!seismo!topaz!@RUTGERS.ARPA:FIRTH@TL-20B.ARPA From: @RUTGERS.ARPA:FIRTH@TL-20B.ARPA Newsgroups: net.sf-lovers Subject: Science Fiction Book Club Message-ID: <494@topaz.ARPA> Date: Sun, 3-Feb-85 12:59:19 EST Article-I.D.: topaz.494 Posted: Sun Feb 3 12:59:19 1985 Date-Received: Sat, 9-Feb-85 07:02:38 EST Sender: daemon@topaz.ARPA Organization: Rutgers Univ., New Brunswick, N.J. Lines: 34 From: FIRTH@TL-20B.ARPA Here is a response from a satisfied customer. I joined the SFBC about 18 months ago, and since then have bought not quite one book per month. The books are of usual "club edition" quality - hard bound, fairly inexpensive, pages sometimes irregular &c. However, the average cost, including shipping &c, was about $6 per book, which I consider a reasonable price for something that is definitely more durable and more pleasant than a pb. The printing has always been clear and legible. If you just get the "5 books for $1" or whatever, and then take only the minimum required number of books, you have a tremendous bargain. I could have filled my quota just with Helliconia Summer The Crucible of Time Code of the Lifemaker Moreta Heechee Rendezvous to name just five really good books from SFBC. As you've gathered, I like the old-fashioned "hard" science fiction. But the catalogue also contains a good deal of sword & sorcery, fantasy, valuable reprints, and much else. In my opinion, the SFBC is well worth joining. Robert Firth -------