Special Henry Kuttner Project with NEIL GAIMAN‏ (Borderlands Press) - OT

Hello all... I wanted to bring the below project by Borderlands Press to everyone's attention...

I have nothing to gain from this so please don't think I am bringing this to the groups attention for any reason other than that I think it is a wonderful project and would like to see the goal reached so the book can be produced.

THE HOGBEN CHRONICLES
edited by Pierce Watters and F. Paul Wilson
Introduction by Neil Gaiman
with Art by Steve Parkhouse

The editors and Mr. Gaiman have agreed to sign 600 copies of the various editions.

Beginning today, Borderlands Press is celebrating its first project with Kickstarter! We would like to give you a chance to participate before we advertise to the general public on April 13th.

Thanks you for all your support over the years. This one will be something you will treasure.

Our book is a celebration of a superbly talented writer, highlighting some of the most unique and memorable tales in the SF/fantasy genres. He died WAY too young at the age of 43, and we’ve made sure to gain the full cooperation of the Kuttner estate so that his heirs will share in the proceeds.

He was a very special writer. Here's what Alan Moore (From Hell, Watchmen, V for Vendetta, The League of Extraordinary Gentleman) says of him:

"Henry Kuttner was one of fantasy and science fiction's most accomplished and intelligent voices, as well as one of its least celebrated. His Hogben family stories are among the most original and certainly the funniest works in the genre, and to have them all finally collected in one volume is nothing short of a dream come true for genuine devotees of imaginative literature. Read this at once, and if you've read it already, then read it again. A masterpiece."

—Alan Moore

To learn more, click this link or cut and paste it into your web browser:

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/195826489/the-hogben-chronicles-of-henry-kut...

Dear Ray,

You have 'copied and pasted' that same post to at least 3 different groups.
I am going to assume you are just enthusiastic. A spammer with no monetary gain
can still be a "spammer/pest" :-)

PS. I too am fond of kuttner and regard his as a forgotten SF author.

There are a large number of people that are only members of specific groups on LT. I wanted to reach as wide of an audience as I possibly could. I am a fan of both Kuttner and Borderlands Press and as such I really want to see this project succeed.

Sorry if I am being a pest. But I am not a spammer. I have been a member of LT since 98 and I have a paid lifetime account.

You are by definition a spammer. Spam isn't the same as junk mail. Spam is posting multiple identical messages. You will in all likelihood receive a message from LibraryThing that kindly asks you not to repeat this.

As I said in my original post I simply believe in the project and wanted to reach out to the widest audience.

As a bibliophile I love seeing posts for opportunities that I might have missed otherwise.

In the future if I have anything like this to post I will be sure not to post to this group as I do not want to offend/upset anyone.

Good day/night to you all (depending on your location).

#5 by SirFolio16> As I said in my original post I simply believe in the project and wanted to reach out to the widest audience.

And thus you decided to spam nine groups. Yes, I understand why you did that, that it was only to be kind and give many people the opportunity to know about this laudable project. Once more: it is not your intentions that anyone is trying to cast doubt upon, only the fact that you were spamming. What you should do in these circumstances is to pick the best or the the best two groups and advertise the project there. Not nine groups. That's spamming.

"I have been a member of LT since 98 ... "

Not to enter into the spam/not spam debate, but this did strike me funny, since LT only came into existence in 2006. Time travel!

I apologize for my typo I meant 2008. And I have already apologized for unintentionally spamming.

Hopefully some people will look past my transgression and actually check out the link. It really is a worthwhile project.

I for one certainly will! :)