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Re: new end book on my shelves

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Robert Carnegie <rja.carnegie@excite.com> writes:
>On Monday, 16 July 2018 04:29:09 UTC+1, 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.
>
>I've just read probably too much in Google Books's
>copy of _Mathematical Adventures for Students and Amateurs_
>- or perhaps not enough - of an essay by notable 
>mathematician Joseph Gallian, upon "Breaking Driver's 
>Licence Codes" (in Minnesota).  It turned out that 
>a Minnesota licence number encodes the name and date of 
>birth of the holder - which I expect are on the licence 
>anyway - and you can extract the name from the number -
>most times, but that doesn't work when the name is Zzyzz.
>
>Unfortunately, another Google Books result tells me
>that the full name that I had in mind - Ricardo Zzyzz -
>appeared at the end of "the" Los Angeles phone directory 
>in the 1950s - and in some "well-I-never" newspaper
>stories - but was just a prank by a subscriber whose
>money I guess they were happy to take.
>
>So apparently that leaves Zzyxx...?

Or perhaps,

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zzyzx,_California

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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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