As explained in previous threads I am too lazy to look up, my lending privileges at the Universal Library were briefly suspended while my alleged role in the arson of the Piers Anthony wing was probed. Happily, that investigation (long stalled because of the series of mysterious eviscerations, deaths-by-stampede, and scaphisms befalling the agents involved) has been cancelled, and my card is once again accepted.
And just in time! The ninth season of Firefly has just been released, and I’ve been dying to know how the Kaylee-Inara-River love triangle resolved itself after the eighth season cliffhanger. (Not to mention that thing with Zoe & the Reavers.) And of course Professor Tolkien has finally finished both the prose and verse versions of The Fall of Gondolin, so I’ll be picking up those too.
Pick up a complete copy of Hornblower During the Crisis would you please? I mislaid my finished copy several years ago (or DID I?) and I’ve had to do with this timeline’s version where CS Forester had the gall to die before he finished.
Oh, and the 1958 Brando-Dean-Newman version of The Three Musketeers. DVD is fine, VHS if all the DVDs are checked out, since demand for that item is fierce.
Actually I would like Tolkien’s followup to the Lord of the Rings about the 4th age.
I would like to see seasons 3-5 of Pushing Daisies.
The 10 juveniles that Heinlein never wrote due to idiots pissing him off and ending that part of his career. Just work with me here, somewhere this must have happened.
The 5th and 6th seasons of WKRP in Cincinnati of course. I know in every plane of existence but this one the show was not canceled and they did two more years with a nice bit of closure. (And yes, I am ignore the terrible, terrible followup that did happen here.)
I would like the DVD set of the Star Trek: DS9 Unity trilogy of movies, please. Yes, the third movie too. I know a lot of people say Unity: A Child Long Awaited is the worst of the three, but I think it really strikes the right tone in wrapping up both the events of the series and the trilogy. Especially after the soul shattering climax of the second movie, Unity: The Parasites and the Prophets. And of course, Unity: Bajor is just classic Trek moviemaking. One of Avery Brooks’ finest performances.
My needs are slight: I wouldn’t mind copies of the last three volumes of Stasheff’s Starship Troupers series. For that matter the last two volumes of Pournelle’s Jannissaries series would be nice as well. I hesitate to mantion my last request, but if you can convince the librarians to let you into the restricted area, I’d love a copy of the blooper reel from Firefly, Season Eight. You know, the one that has the outtakes from the triangle, where they really got Method.
I still think season four of Firefly (The Auspicious Year story arc, with the crew having good luck arranged for them for once) was their best work, and the episode where we finally meet Jayne’s mother after all that build-up is the high point of that season. I still don’t know how they got Linda Hunt for the recurring role, but by the time in Season 5 they revealed that she was also the “Queen of the Reavers” it had gotten a little silly.
I’d like a copy of the collected works of Abdul Alhazred, if they have it. I know it’s hard to come by, it might not even be that library.
If they do have it, the ebook format would be the most useful. I know it comes in some strange bindings, so I’d like to avoid those. Sorry for being picky, but I’ve heard horror stories…
According to the catalog, they have it, though no one’s actually checked in a while. It’s in the Cthulhu wing, into which the patrons may enter if they wish, but only after bringing their accounts fully up to date. But once you’re in you’re on your own; not only is the staff reluctant to enter, but applicants are asked if they are willing to work inside it, and saying yes results in not being hired.
Anyway, I’m going to say no, for four reasons.
It’s in the Cthulhu wing. 2) It’s in the Cthulhu wing. 3) It’s in the goddamn Cthulhu wing!
What’re you, nuts? Which part of Cthulhu wing do you not understand?
Summer Glau, going Method, playing River?
I don’t think you thought that one through. There’s a reason Jewel Staite had to spend the entire summer break in the psych ward and Morena Baccarin demanded her salary be doubled before she’d agree to return.
As I’ve said before, you only THINK you want that. It’ll break your heart. The wisest thing our world’s Perfesser ever did was abandon that book.
You also only think you want those. Remember how dark the proper ending to Podkayne of Mars was? Well, those last ten juveniles continue the theme, only worse. I think it was because of Ginny dying, but of course it would be gauche to ask.
Prose or verse? Because those are both really long and rather heavy, and for obvious reasons not available as ebooks.
I am not willing to be seen in public with anything Harlan Ellison was involved with unless I am on my way to a bonfire in which he is already burning, thank you.
•I’d like a copy of that Riverworld-crossover I was writing circa 2002-03 that I know I’ll never get around to finishing. I’d like to see how that one turned out.
•If you could snag a copy of Wayne Barlowe’s Thype, I’d be grateful—it feels like I’ve been waiting on that one for thirty years.
•Oh! If you could find a copy of Jane’s All the World’s At-Best-Somewhat-Popular-Franchise Science Fiction and Fantasy Aircraft and Weapon Systems (1985-2010)? The edition with the obsessive three-view diagrams and scaling information, of course.
I’ll take a DVD with the Harlan Ellison-scripted blockbuster movie I, Robot (not to confused with the Will Smith version), please. And Edgar Allan Poe’s “second wind” stories, from 1849-98, after he recovered from that near-fatal illness in Baltimore. And the authorized, annotated hardcover edition of Lincoln’s Lost Speech: Lincoln's Lost Speech - Wikipedia. Thanks!
My copy of The FLASHMAN PAPERS is missing a few volumes, most notably his accounts of his actions in the US civil war, could you pick up a copy please?
