tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3668066.post4174716121710829725..comments2024-03-28T02:29:37.413-05:00Comments on Bill Crider's Pop Culture Magazine: Return with Us Now . . .Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02350478005243505108noreply@blogger.comBlogger10125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3668066.post-61732924665939293872007-08-27T10:48:00.000-05:002007-08-27T10:48:00.000-05:00Or even three titles.Or even three titles.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3668066.post-87000428735019847562007-08-26T23:27:00.000-05:002007-08-26T23:27:00.000-05:00I believe I remember seeing a similar card-stock a...I believe I remember seeing a similar card-stock ad for a Gardner club, and the Detective Book Club, the one that produced all those triple volumes with the threee title in wrap-around bands on the front cover and spine, also for years would make an initial offer of a cheap stack of Gardner's to encourage new members to join.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3668066.post-76266647254368479792007-08-26T20:39:00.000-05:002007-08-26T20:39:00.000-05:00Hah, I just read a Cool & Lam novel by Earl Stanle...Hah, I just read a Cool & Lam novel by Earl Stanley Gardener, printed in the 60s, and not only was there an ad in the middle, it folded out to TWO GLORIOUS PAGES!! Or whatever. Apparently there was a Gardener book club.Graham Powellhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01775285782385634486noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3668066.post-58215611727423626372007-08-26T16:55:00.000-05:002007-08-26T16:55:00.000-05:00Where I was, the SFBC was about the only way to ge...Where I was, the SFBC was about the only way to get the books. The library had Heinlein and a few others, and the bookstore had paperbacks, but the big anthologies and other hardcovers were SFBC only as far as I was concerned.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02350478005243505108noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3668066.post-87622341103137709392007-08-26T16:51:00.000-05:002007-08-26T16:51:00.000-05:00One of the small advantages (as opposed to the big...One of the small advantages (as opposed to the big and small advantages and disadvantages) of moving to Hawaii in 1979 is that the SFBC, like most clubs of its ilk, wouldn't automatically send the primary selections any longer if one failed to explicitly opt out, since the bulk mail charges were greater and delivery was slower. Certainly made membership slightly less annoying, but I soon dropped it anyway. After a year's membership in the BOMC offshoot the Quality Paperback Club, I pretty much gave up on those.<BR/><BR/>Had there been any great advantage to membership in SFBC in the '50s? Were the books otherwise hard to find around your nabe?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3668066.post-52938915070618621812007-08-26T13:22:00.000-05:002007-08-26T13:22:00.000-05:00I picked up the Asimov anthologies in pb around th...I picked up the Asimov anthologies in pb around that time; same for the Varley collection. I'd dropped out of the club long before.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02350478005243505108noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3668066.post-67772412777131830192007-08-26T12:41:00.000-05:002007-08-26T12:41:00.000-05:00I believe my first four selections from SFBC when ...I believe my first four selections from SFBC when I joined in 1978 (deflation of come-ons had reduced the entry fee to four selections for 10c...and the least expensive regular BC editions at that time were a whopping $1.98, albeit you had to put up with the ugly SFBC covers on the likes of ROGUE MOON and THE DEMOLISHED MAN): THE HUGO WINNERS, VOL. 1 & 2 in an omnibus, as annotated by Isaac Asimov (IA and Doubleday cleverly left Fritz Leiber's "Ill Met in Lankhmar" out of the book, but luckily I'd encountered them elsewhere by then...not sure how much in royalties that might've cost Leiber, but perhaps not too much); John Varley's collection THE PERSISTENCE OF VISION; and I'm blanking on the other two. Those two clearly made the larger impression.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3668066.post-2357186433341105302007-08-26T10:33:00.000-05:002007-08-26T10:33:00.000-05:00I couldn't resist, either, Ed.Todd, I love that ad...I couldn't resist, either, Ed.<BR/><BR/>Todd, I love that ad. I'm sure I have it around here on some mag or other.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02350478005243505108noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3668066.post-35080513025328284572007-08-26T10:29:00.000-05:002007-08-26T10:29:00.000-05:00I've managed not to see this ad before...I wonder ...I've managed not to see this ad before...I wonder how happy the assembled were with their photographs (my favorite SFBC is likely to remain the remarkably over-the-top ad focusing on Asimov's THE END OF ETERNITY, headlined "You Travelled Through Time to Taste FORBIDDEN LOVE...But Now You Must Kill Her!" We have at least one mutual acquaintance whose blood pressure rises ten points whenever he contemplates that ad.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3668066.post-3751927062517751692007-08-26T10:19:00.000-05:002007-08-26T10:19:00.000-05:00Boy were those SF Book Club adverts seductive. Tho...Boy were those SF Book Club adverts seductive. Those thirty word outlines accompanying each book, most of them ending in !!!!!!!!!! What thirteen year old could resist? I couldn't that's for sure.Ed Gormanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06126267358266480356noreply@blogger.com