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Re: new end book on my shelves

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On Monday, July 16, 2018 at 5:23:52 PM UTC-4, Robert Carnegie wrote:
> On Monday, 16 July 2018 22:08:31 UTC+1, Ted Nolan <tednolan>  wrote:
> > In article <pByz4u.1069@kithrup.com>,
> > Dorothy J Heydt <djheydt@kithrup.com> wrote:
> > >In article <35369663-9f51-44b2-bbba-2ca463bd4bec@googlegroups.com>,
> > >Peter Trei  <petertrei@gmail.com> wrote:
> > >>On Monday, July 16, 2018 at 12:55:41 AM UTC-4, William Hyde wrote:
> > >>> On Sunday, July 15, 2018 at 11:29:09 PM UTC-4, Lawrence Watt-Evans wrote:
> > >>> > On Sun, 15 Jul 2018 12:04:32 -0700 (PDT), Kevrob <kevrob@my-deja.com>
> > >>> > wrote:
> > >>> > 
> > >>> > >On Sunday, July 15, 2018 at 2:34:53 PM UTC-4, David DeLaney wrote:
> > >>> > >> On 2018-07-13, Lynn McGuire <lynnmcguire5@gmail.com> wrote:
> > >>> > >> > My daughter gave me a "new" end book for my collection last
> > >>week.  _The 
> > >>> > >> > Omega Point_ by George Zebrowski.  It will go right that after
> > >>that Zahn 
> > >>> > >> > book after I read it.  Maybe it is this book in a 1972 Ace print.
> > >>> > >> >  
> > >>> > >> >
> > >>https://www.amazon.com/Omega-Point-Trilogy-George-Zebrowski/dp/0441623816/
> > >>> > >> 
> > >>> > >> There are several Zelazny you might like, and a smattering of
> > >>Zelazny-ands;
> > >>> > >> Sarah Zettel writes good stuff, and Stephan Zielinski is a friend
> > >>who has one
> > >>> > >> urban-fantasy book out some time ago. Paul Edwin Zimmer, Marion's
> > >>brother, had
> > >>> > >> an unfinished epic-fantasy series that has somewhat more
> > >>king-in-yellow roots
> > >>> > >> than Darkover did. And Zindel has some space opera.
> > >>> > >> 
> > >>> > >
> > >>> > >Who would be the alphabetically ultimate author?
> > >>> > >
> > >>> > >Eric Simon, writing as "Victor Zyx?"
> > >>> > 
> > >>> > I went to high school with a guy named Mark Zyzza.  Maybe we should
> > >>> > track him down and convince him to write a novel.
> > >>> 
> > >>> You didn't know?
> > >>> 
> > >>> He writes under the pen name of Adam Aaron.
> > >>> 
> > >>> William Hyde
> > >>
> > >>I know a young couple who delight in the name Zyxnfrx.
> > >
> > >Did they (either of them) inherit that name, or did they decide
> > >"Well, making one take the other's name is old-fashioned and
> > >sexist, and hyphens are awkward, let's just make up a new joint
> > >name"?  I knew at least one young young couple who did that.  But
> > >they chose something like Moonbeam or Morninglory.  It was, after
> > >all, the sixties.
> > >
> > 
> > To me it looks like one of them is Zyx and the other Frx.
> 
> Le Frx, c'est Zyx.

The two of them made the name up - their pre-marriage names were much more
mundane.

pt

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new end book on my shelves Lynn McGuire <lynnmcguire5@gmail.com> - 2018-07-12 23:03 -0500
  Re: new end book on my shelves Kevrob <kevrob@my-deja.com> - 2018-07-12 21:26 -0700
    Re: new end book on my shelves Ahasuerus <ahasuerus@email.com> - 2018-07-12 21:38 -0700
      Re: new end book on my shelves Lynn McGuire <lynnmcguire5@gmail.com> - 2018-07-13 13:55 -0500
        Re: new end book on my shelves Richard Hershberger <rrhersh@gmail.com> - 2018-07-13 13:25 -0700
          Re: new end book on my shelves Ahasuerus <ahasuerus@email.com> - 2018-07-13 13:44 -0700
            Re: new end book on my shelves ted@loft.tnolan.com (Ted Nolan <tednolan>) - 2018-07-13 20:48 +0000
            Re: new end book on my shelves Jibini Kula Tumbili Kujisalimisha <taustinca@gmail.com> - 2018-07-13 14:29 -0700
          Re: new end book on my shelves Lynn McGuire <lynnmcguire5@gmail.com> - 2018-07-13 15:59 -0500
          Re: new end book on my shelves D B Davis <g@crcomp.net> - 2018-07-13 23:26 +0000
  Re: new end book on my shelves tonynance17@gmail.com - 2018-07-13 03:59 -0700
    Re: new end book on my shelves Kevrob <kevrob@my-deja.com> - 2018-07-13 11:02 -0700
    Re: new end book on my shelves Lynn McGuire <lynnmcguire5@gmail.com> - 2018-07-13 13:53 -0500
  Re: new end book on my shelves djheydt@kithrup.com (Dorothy J Heydt) - 2018-07-14 05:25 +0000
    Re: new end book on my shelves Lynn McGuire <lynnmcguire5@gmail.com> - 2018-07-15 14:27 -0500
      Re: new end book on my shelves djheydt@kithrup.com (Dorothy J Heydt) - 2018-07-15 20:34 +0000
  Re: new end book on my shelves David DeLaney <daviddelaney@earthlink.net> - 2018-07-15 13:34 -0500
    Re: new end book on my shelves Kevrob <kevrob@my-deja.com> - 2018-07-15 12:04 -0700
      Re: new end book on my shelves Lawrence Watt-Evans <misenchantedpress@gmail.com> - 2018-07-15 23:29 -0400
        Re: new end book on my shelves William Hyde <wthyde1953@gmail.com> - 2018-07-15 21:55 -0700
          Re: new end book on my shelves Peter Trei <petertrei@gmail.com> - 2018-07-16 08:35 -0700
            Re: new end book on my shelves djheydt@kithrup.com (Dorothy J Heydt) - 2018-07-16 17:26 +0000
              Re: new end book on my shelves ted@loft.tnolan.com (Ted Nolan <tednolan>) - 2018-07-16 21:08 +0000
                Re: new end book on my shelves Robert Carnegie <rja.carnegie@excite.com> - 2018-07-16 14:23 -0700
                Re: new end book on my shelves Peter Trei <petertrei@gmail.com> - 2018-07-17 05:11 -0700
                Re: new end book on my shelves djheydt@kithrup.com (Dorothy J Heydt) - 2018-07-17 16:09 +0000
          Re: new end book on my shelves Lawrence Watt-Evans <misenchantedpress@gmail.com> - 2018-07-16 13:05 -0400
            Re: new end book on my shelves D B Davis <g@crcomp.net> - 2018-07-16 18:15 +0000
            Re: new end book on my shelves David DeLaney <daviddelaney@earthlink.net> - 2018-07-18 07:51 -0500
        Re: new end book on my shelves Robert Carnegie <rja.carnegie@excite.com> - 2018-07-16 13:42 -0700
          Re: new end book on my shelves scott@slp53.sl.home (Scott Lurndal) - 2018-07-16 20:54 +0000

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