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From: Robert Woodward <robertaw@drizzle.com>
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Subject: Re: Bullard of the Space Patrol
Date: Fri, 16 Aug 2024 10:06:14 -0700
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In article <v9nl73$skn$1@reader1.panix.com>,
 jdnicoll@panix.com (James Nicoll) wrote:

> In article <v9mipv$1a8tp$2@dont-email.me>,
> Mike Van Pelt  <usenet@mikevanpelt.com> wrote:
> >In article <87msle9zvx.fsf@comcast.net.invalid>,
> >Don_from_AZ  <djatechNOSPAM@comcast.net.invalid> wrote:
> >> ... but the book that made the earliest strong impression was "Bullard
> >>of the Space Patrol" by Malcolm Jameson. "Who?" you may well ask. Not
> >>nearly as well known as other Golden Age authors, he apparently wrote
> >>mostly short stories and novellas.
> >
> >I've read "Bullard Reflects" in another anthology.  I've long
> >wanted to get a copy of the other Bullard stories, once I
> >found that there were more, but not at $100.
> >
> >I'm definitely going to go get the ebook!
> >
> >(Likewise, I'm not sure how well these hold up.  Probably OK, since
> >I don't demand that Golden Age authors write 2020s stories with
> >2020s sensibilities back in the 30s and 40s.)
> 
> How annoying. There does not seem to be a Kobo edition.

Does Kobo have a Malcolm Jameson MEGAPACK for sale? It has most of the 
stories (but not the Space War articles) that are in _Bullard: Tales of 
the Space Patrol_. I will note that the Bullard stories are very much a 
reflection of the pre-WWII US Navy for better or worse.

-- 
"We have advanced to new and surprising levels of bafflement."
Imperial Auditor Miles Vorkosigan describes progress in _Komarr_.
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