OT-Books (was Re: SC - Re:Breakfast at WAR)

Mordonna22 at aol.com Mordonna22 at aol.com
Wed Dec 2 19:07:19 PST 1998


In a message dated 12/2/98 3:27:12 PM US Mountain Standard Time, kat at kagan.com
writes:

> 
>  >>  I know I first heard about the SCA thirty odd years ago by reading an
SF
>  >>  story
>  >>  that included an SCA theme.  Do not recall if the name SCA was used,
but 
> >>  the
>  >>  action was on Berkley Campus.
>  
>  and Adamantius responded:
>  
>  > The book in question souinds like it might be Peter S. Beagle's "The
>  > Folk of the Air"...
>  
>  
>  I was thinking it was Marion Zimmer Bradley's "The House Between The
Worlds."
>   That was the first book I read that mentioned the SCA, however briefly;
but 
> then, that was before I knew MZB had coined our name... :-)
>  
>  The oddest place I've ever seen a reference to the SCA is in the final 
> chapter of Heinlein's "Number of the Beast."  Those who've read the chapter 
> know what I'm talking about...  ;-)
>  
>  OK; I'll get back on topic, really I willl...  ;-)
>  
>  	- kat
>  

Since I've read both it was probably both.  I read The Number of the Beast at
least yearly, along with Time Enough for Love, Methuselah's Children, and
Stranger in a Strange Land.  And I am quite often guilty of quoting Lazarus
Long.

Mordonna
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