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From: William Hyde <wthyde1953@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: (ReacTor) The Science Fiction Book Club Will Be Greatly Missed
Date: Tue, 28 Jan 2025 15:16:49 -0500
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Chris Buckley wrote:
> On 2025-01-28, William Hyde <wthyde1953@gmail.com> wrote:
>> James Nicoll wrote:
>>> The Science Fiction Book Club Will Be Greatly Missed
>>>
>>> If reports are true, and I did not simply misunderstand, we bid a fond
>>> farewell to an SF institution.
>>>
>>> https://reactormag.com/the-science-fiction-book-club-will-be-greatly-missed/
>>>
>> When I joined, the offer was Boucher's two volume "Treasury of Science
>> Fiction" for a dime.  A much better deal than that first offer.
>>
>> Being keenly aware of the value of the Canadian dollar, I sent them
>> eleven cents.  I'm sure that gave someone a chuckle at the office.
>>
>> But I was then a member for about twenty years.
>> William Hyde
> 
> I took advantage of the same offer! SFBC definitely had a large impact on
> my science fiction reading and buying.  I was only a member for 6 years or
> so; I had to drop it when I went off to college. I had no money


I went to university here in Toronto, so saved on living expenses.  I 
couldn't have afforded to go elsewhere, but then I didn't want to.


  - failing to
> disapprove of their monthly pair of selections (as I was wont to do) would
> eat up at least a quarter of my available money.

I did go away for the MSc, and this did happen to me.  But fortunately 
the MSc was funded so I could afford the occasional unwanted book.  Many 
of which turned out to be wanted after all.

As for the unwanted ones, well at least when I express my disdain for 
them it is from an informed basis.  Painfully informed because I read 
everything I bought.

Silver linings.


William Hyde