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to: Dave Drum
from: Richard Webb
date: 2009-05-13 16:35:40
subject: Editors and Publishers

HI Dave,

On Wed 2037-May-13 07:27, Dave Drum (1:124/311) wrote to Richard Webb:

 DD> other hand I thoroughly enjoy David Drake, Eric Flint, David Weber,
 DD> et al - the new Grand Masters of military fiction in outer space.

 RW> THink I've rread something of DRake and WEber
 RW> A lot of the old classic sci fi was brailled by Iowa library for the
 RW> blind, but library of congress doesn't keep up as
 RW> well with the genre.

 RW> edmund Hamilton was some good sci fi in that genre also.

DD> Sometimes I lose sight of the things that blind folks go through to
DD> enjoy one of my favourite pleasures (reading). Ooooops, no puns
DD> intended in the preceding sentence.

NO prob there.

DD> Do you do audio books? Quite a lot of speculative fiction is
DD> available on cassette, CD or DVD. Although not from most libraries
DD> that I am aware of - but, I see such advertised quite a bit on
DD> Amazon and eBay.

Rarely, preference for leisure reading is braille.  THis
computer chatters at me, and I'm very active with ham radio
stuff.  A lot of the commercially produced cassette
audiobooks for the public were condensed versions, don't
care as much for those.

Regards,
           Richard
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