Al,
You know, your comment about book avaliability is a really good point, and one I'll have to think about.
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Aaron
P.S. And Paul really has been looking for a copy of The Killing Star for a while now. It's become like a quest for him.

He hits all the used book stores; gives him something to do, I guess.

Book availability may be a dying problem. Quite a few years ago the publisher John Wiley announced that all their books would remain in print because they were prepared to print a single copy if necessary to honour this promise. At that time they were going to use a service provided by Xerox to print low numbers of copies from the electronic master.
With electronic publishing you can download a pdf copy of many books for a fraction of the printed copy price as from
www.lulu.com.
Brian Gilbert