On Sat, 23 Aug 2008, John Williams wrote:
> After seeing several messages with Greg Bear as subject, I am wondering
> if anyone has read his new book, City at the End of Time. Are there any
> guidelines on discussing books here without giving away too much (I'm
> new here, by the way)?
Giving warning about spoilers has generally been the done thing. You
warn:
SPOILERS AHEAD
and then give a bunch of lines with *something* there, so various mail
programs don't decide, "Hey, that's just white space, we should compress
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And it's generally a good idea to do that for anything only out in
hardcover, or something that's been out in paperback for less than 2
months. (Some folks can't necessarily get the books from the library and
can't afford hardcover copies of all the nifty stuff we could potentially
discuss here, so waiting until the paperback has been out long enough for
folks to get their hands on it and read it is a generally courteous
thing.)
Julia
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