Anybody know what happened to Marsh Alien? He's not listed in the Inactive Authors page. He wrote some really good stories and I'd really like to see more. Are you out there, Marsh?
Anybody know what happened to Marsh Alien? He's not listed in the Inactive Authors page. He wrote some really good stories and I'd really like to see more. Are you out there, Marsh?
15 years since his last post here or on Lit. I suspect he is gone for good. If he had another pen name I too would like to know. He was/ is a wonderful writer with very human characters.
What I heard was that he went over to the dark side and was selling his writings as Marshal Ian Key.
What I heard was that he went over to the dark side and was selling his writings as Marshal Ian Key.
I keep a list of author aliases and have that alias listed for a long time now.
When you came up with a name, I searched Amazon to see if anything has been published by him. No luck. I think a lot of SOL's writers who try to go public are overwhelmed by the demands of an editor and having to meet deadlines. Maybe he'll come back eventually.
I don't see him there any more, but putting his name into a search engine (I use DuckDuckGo) threw up hits on goodreads.com, romance.io (I'd never heard of that one), thriftbooks.com and bookfinder.com.
I'm assuming all four of them are connected with him and are not plagiarism sites. He appears to have published four books in total. The last site I mentioned appears to say where you can find dead-tree copies, the only place they had the first book was Amazon Brazil and they wanted over $140 including shipping.
I don't see him there any more, but putting his name into a search engine (I use DuckDuckGo) threw up hits on goodreads.com,
goodreads == amazon
Depends on the book. My version of Ian Watsons 'Space Marine' was once valued (briefly) for Β£250 before GW decided to put a stop to it by releasing a sanitised version. I also bought new, Gigers 'Biomechanics' back in 93 for Β£150, which was (still is) the most expensive book I have ever bought.
Did he write a college text bk?140 for a single bk is crazy even for amzn
Physical copies of out of print books are purely based on supply and demand. They can be as little as cost of shipping plus a few cents, or ridiculously expensive.
Indeed. While it was out of print, my copy of Neal Stephenson's first novel (The Big U, picked out of the remainders bin at my college bookstore) was going for a month's rent. Times were tight enough, one year, we seriously considered selling it for just that purpose. Fortunately, around the time he hit it big enough to have his backlist reprinted, we both got book contracts good enough to carry us through the next couple years.
Clearly you've never heard of the Folio Society. It's a publisher which takes classics and cult favourite books and creates very nice old-fashioned hard cover copies, usually in limited editions.
For example, they currently have 108 copies left of a 1,000 print run of Shakespeare's complete plays, which costs Β£1,000 (https://www.foliosociety.com/uk/the-complete-plays.html).
For a more recent classic, Tolkien's illustrated Lord of the Rings trilogy is a much more reasonable Β£155 (https://www.foliosociety.com/uk/the-lord-of-the-rings.html).
I've got a lovely copy of Gibbons' The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire in a Folio edition which I bought (relatively) cheap at a garage sale from someone who was happy to get $50 for it.
Interesting, they have The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (5 volumes) for Β£600.00 (the individual volumes cost Β£49.95 each) and Dune (3 Volumes) for Β£495.00, Volume 1 costs Β£100.00.
Tehanu by Ursula K. Le Guin is Β£49.95, the other books in her Earthsea series are also available individually for the same price.
Somewhat surprisingly there are no books by the authors we know and love (or not) here on SOL. There was one called "The Vikings" but it had nothing to do with the time travel classic by rlfj.
Note that collections often have additional materials and may be different editions.
The Dune trilogy you linked is a limited edition of 500 units with more colour art pieces and in a larger size (11Β½Λ x 8Λ) than the single volumes (10Λ x 6ΒΎΛ).
If you're talking about a classic or mint condition from yrs ago I could see that. If you're asking for 140 so can have a harry potter bk I'd kick you in the nuts and laugh at you. I have the utmost respect for you if you put your talents here and were encouraged to make a living or attempt to. However if you think that reviews here equal 140 per bk and your name is not chaucer dickens or even Shelley (1st 2nd or 3rd edition)not aware of the reality that you live in.