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DrNefario
Posted 2012-10-24 7:51 AM (#4289)
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Location: UK		At the end of last week, I took part in a quick competition set by @Gollancz on Twitter to come up with a funny anagram of Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep.

I'm very pleased to say that I won, and the prize, a stack of SF Masterworks, turned up at work today. Lovely.

My winning anagram was:

Dread spoiler: Deccard is one of them

I'm very pleased.
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Posted 2012-10-24 8:48 AM (#4290 - in reply to #4289)
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Location: Dallas, Texas		Wow!  That is so cool and I like your anagram.  Congrats on your good fortune but we need more details, please.  What books came in your prize bundle?  Any of the newest books to make the SF Masterworks list?
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DrNefario
Posted 2012-10-24 9:50 AM (#4292 - in reply to #4289)
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Location: UK		I've packed them away in my bag, for transport home, but yes, it did include DG Compton's The Continuous Katherine Mortenhoe, which I think is one the newest ones. There are ten, I think, most of them by Philip K Dick (including Do Androids Dream...), and also The City & the Stars by Arthur C Clarke, Roadside Picnic by Arkady & Boris Strugatsky, and The Dispossessed by Ursula Le Guin (who doesn't seem to have a K any more).

I've read about half of them before, I think - I read the older numbered Masterworks edition of The Dispossessed just a couple of months ago for the GMRC - but I'm not going to argue with free. I'll pass my duplicates on to a good home.
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chuhl
Posted 2012-10-24 1:27 PM (#4293 - in reply to #4289)
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That anagram is amazing!
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justifiedsinner
Posted 2012-10-24 4:01 PM (#4294 - in reply to #4289)
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Amazing! Do you think Dick meant this? Then again the title would have had to have been Electrick Sheep, but maybe his publishers wouldn't allow that.
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justifiedsinner
Posted 2012-10-24 4:06 PM (#4295 - in reply to #4289)
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On Ursula K. The K is for her maiden name Kroeber. I always pronounce her name the French way (Le Gwon) since her husband was French but an American friend thought this was strange and pronounces it "Le Gwin" . I have no idea which she prefers.
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DrNefario
Posted 2012-10-25 7:07 AM (#4296 - in reply to #4289)
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Location: UK		The PKD books, by the way, were Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep, Ubik, A Scanner Darkly, VALIS, The Penultimate Truth and The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch. I already own older editions of the first four, and have definitely read them, but might not have read the last two. It's a good thing they didn't pick Ubik or VALIS to make an anagram out of.
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