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Originally posted by L_han:
i will find a first edition neuromancer for you if you win FashionPolice, would you like that?...
wait, you can't answer, its going to be your 1000th post...anyways i will start looking for it this weekend

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I just realized that I had forgotten to reply to this post.

Thank you so much for that offer of a 1st Edition Neuromancer if WG is in London on June 24, 2004, L_han. I would appreciate it very much.

I just used my Searchstring Sensei skills to discover that the 20th Anniversary Edition of Neuromancer should be published in November 2004 by Ace Books.

List of Losers

The following members are out of the competition.

06 Jan - JRE
02 Feb - El Gringo
03 Feb - Tiger68
26 Feb - The Mythod
29 Feb - L_Han
10 Mar - Eric
15 Mar - Doggo
04 Apr - Kradlum

Hey, I am the first at something!

José

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Originally posted by Fashionpolice:

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Originally posted by L_han:
i will find a first edition neuromancer for you if you win FashionPolice, would you like that?...
wait, you can't answer, its going to be your 1000th post...anyways i will start looking for it this weekend

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I just realized that I had forgotten to reply to this post.

Thank you so much for that offer of a 1st Edition Neuromancer if WG is in London on June 24, 2004, L_han. I would appreciate it very much.

I just used my Searchstring Sensei skills to discover that the 20th Anniversary Edition of Neuromancer should be published in November 2004 by Ace Books.

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Hey FP i got it! Its a Ace First Edition 1984-paperback neuromancer. Who ever bought and sold it didn't even read it ! The half of the stickers were still on it and the binding is still without a scratch

I. WANT. THAT. BOOK!

make a guess prim8

September 13th, 2004

I never said what year!

I'm not out yet hehe. Like they say "even a broken clock is right twice a day".
Sorry FP, I guess Bravus pedant ver2.6 is industrial strength.

Our local primate didn't specify which hour. Tsk tsk.

My bid:

September 19th, 2004 @ (around) 6:30 PM PST

It just feels right.

[Samuel L. Jackson]

"Bitch better have ALL my hours...not some of my hours, but ALL of my hours..."

[/Samuel L. Jackson]

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Originally posted by Fashionpolice:

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Originally posted by L_han:
i will find a first edition neuromancer for you if you win FashionPolice, would you like that?...
wait, you can't answer, its going to be your 1000th post...anyways i will start looking for it this weekend

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Thank you so much for that offer of a 1st Edition Neuromancer if WG is in London on June 24, 2004, L_han. I would appreciate it very much.

I just used my Searchstring Sensei skills to discover that the 20th Anniversary Edition of Neuromancer should be published in November 2004 by Ace Books.

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To my knowledge WG wasn't in London on June 24, 2004, so I don't win L_han's most generous offer of the 1st Edition Neuromancer (which printing was that anyway?)

However I have found the book cover for the 20th Anniversary Edition of Neuromancer.



To be published on 30 November 2004.

it is Ace edition, paper back
i guess i got to keep it for myself than

What does the number line on it say? This is how you can see which printing it is.
http://www.millersmiles.co.uk/bookguide/firsteditionbooks/firsteditionbooks.htm

Does it say something like?
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9

9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1
or
1 3 4 7 9 10 8 6 4 2

If so, you made a pretty good score. If the numbers are higher, it's less rare.

Enjoy it in any case.

the numbers are higher and they go 29 28 27 26 25
it says printed in july 1984, cover art by Richard Berry.
it also says This book was first published as an Ace Science Fiction original edition. The first through third prints were as an Ace Science Fiction Special, edited by Terry Carr. i didn't even see that special edition anywhere before.
i guess i should be a little sad but i am not, i paid $4.20 for this book- even the tag price was $5.99
and i didn't know this detail about prints, thanks FP.

I also checked my first edition Douglas Adams' Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency. That one is hard cover and has the numbers 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 but says Manufactured in the United States of Americapublished by Simon & Schuster, NY
I guess that one is a genuine first/first for states at least...
i really like this first edition book discussion maybe you should start a thread about this FP?

I'm biding my time.

My roommate got a scanner, and when it's running, I'm scanning some of my faves and starting a thread. If someone else wants to do it first though, be my guest.

I'll have to reference a few past discussions, bien sur.

Perhaps he's been blogging for a while, and not posting it because he needs to reconnect with his blog narrative voice. If he's waiting for notes from his editor on an early draft of his next novel, he sure as hell doesn't want to write some livejournal entries about his new iPod or post links to penguin flash games he's recently discovered. Right? Or maybe he never wants to read another, "Talking to the Blog" thread again. So I'm gonna guess September 21st 2004. Because that's when Ashpool releases its next CD and I talk about my band in the third person and don't post much anyway.

Res ipsa loquitur

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My entry :

19 October 2004 - 06:00

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The winner is Gil! Congratulations!

Whooo Hooo! My guess was the date of my next birthday. I was thinking, the other day, that my vote would soon be overtaken.

I, for one, am absolutely delighted he is back. I can't figure out whether he intends to discuss politics or just to register his vote.

Gil, I sent you an email. Have you received it? Otherwise please send me your mailing address to the email in my profile so I can send you your prize.

Thanks!