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Jun. 30th, 2006 12:23 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
bktheirregularI read on www.schlockmercenary.com that Jim Baen died.
I suppose it means something to me, not just because I've grown to rather like the books published under his banner, but because I feel a connection, with only one degree of separation.
Donald Kingsbury, who claims that the first words I ever spoke were "REG. U.S. PAT. OFF.", read off a discarded candy-bar wrapper I picked up off First Avenue, had his second novel published by Baen: The Moon Goddess and the Son - the one I handed out the last time I was in Chicago.
And the most recent books I've been chewing through - the Vorkosigan Saga - also now fall under the aegis of Baen's company. His legacy, now, I suppose.
I suppose it means something to me, not just because I've grown to rather like the books published under his banner, but because I feel a connection, with only one degree of separation.
Donald Kingsbury, who claims that the first words I ever spoke were "REG. U.S. PAT. OFF.", read off a discarded candy-bar wrapper I picked up off First Avenue, had his second novel published by Baen: The Moon Goddess and the Son - the one I handed out the last time I was in Chicago.
And the most recent books I've been chewing through - the Vorkosigan Saga - also now fall under the aegis of Baen's company. His legacy, now, I suppose.
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Date: 2006-06-30 12:51 pm (UTC)"REG. U.S. PAT. OFF.", read off a discarded candy-bar wrapper
Ha! I always hear that in Bugs Bunny's voice, in the cartoon ("Forward March Hare") where Bugs is accidently drafted, and he reads it off the bottom of the eye chart.