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From: jdnicoll@panix.com (James Nicoll)
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Subject: Re: (ReacTor) The Science Fiction Book Club Will Be Greatly Missed
Date: Wed, 29 Jan 2025 02:46:44 -0000 (UTC)
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In article <lvt6o4F4fnkU1@mid.individual.net>,
Ted Nolan <tednolan> <tednolan> wrote:
>In article <o1nipjhs4dg61ddamqv9ofti245gbc0eso@4ax.com>,
>The Horny Goat  <lcraver@home.ca> wrote:
>>On Tue, 28 Jan 2025 15:16:49 -0500, William Hyde
>><wthyde1953@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>
>>>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.
>>
>>I'm a Vancouver boy so went to UBC but went to McMaster (just down the
>>road from there) and got both my MBA and MRS (i.e. I met my wife
>>there) - now deceased but we had 37 years together; that and 2 girls
>>and a boy now all grown up with only a 2 year old granddaughter (born
>>2 months after my wife's passing) to show for it.
>>
>>I lived cheap, got a small scholarship and was the Dean's Teaching
>>Assistant (which didn't pay any more than any other TA but looked good
>>on the resume) so had enough left over for some basic furniture in my
>>first place and her ring.
>>
>>Given cost of business schools these days that wouldn't have been
>>possible.
>>
>>>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.
>>
>>Ditto though these days that's about 1/3 of what I read (the rest
>>coming from the public library)
>
>So did they have a special arm for Canada or did you have to send
>international money orders and pay international postage?

There was a Canadian SFBC, which I think was a different company in
some way affiliated with the US SFBC, but it went under in the early
'00s. I think. 
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