h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

If a tree is balefired in the forest and there's no-one there to argue about it, was it ever there in the first place?

depends if Rand Al'Thor Elayne Trakand and Nynaeve AlMeara are in the vicinity.

If the next book doesn't come out in October the tree will have been the lucky one.

But it did come out, it was the balefire that makes you believe it didn't

In an Age, called the third Age by some, a wind began on the Isle of Tremalking, it swept over the Sea into Ilian and then up North through the country of Amador. It would have been broken in the forest by a tree but some git had Balefired it. COnsequently it went all the way up to the Blight and as with that butterfly and Avalanches....



(Surely people aren't *still* getting stressed about when the next book is coming out. I used to do that but found it a pointless exercise and gave up and found something else to read in the meantime.)

Must admit, I gave up after about book 6! I like a good epic but, Jeez does it go on and on and on...........

I'm a little with George RR Martin - whose 4th installmaent is currently running 2 years late, and JV jones as her third installment is running late.

Who the hell started this trend of writing stories over 99 books - Can't they wrap one up and start new ones ?

I have all the Wheel of Time books up to number 9. Then I gave up. I saw book 10 in the library and couldn't even be bothered to borrow it, because I'd have to read the other 9 again to figure out what was going on.

Did anything interesting happen? I doubt it. Not a lot happened in books 7, 8 and 9.

When the 1st book of A Song of Ice and Fire came out (GRR Martin's effort) I bought it because I liked the cover.

I've since found out I have a first edition first print and its worth about £500 I'm still in two minds as to whether to sell it or not but I think around the time A Dance With Dragons comes out would be ideal if I did

I have a very cherished signed first edition of David Eddings' Pawn of Prophecy that I will never sell!


Unless I'm really skint that day.............................

But is it actually worth anything? Being signed would help of course.
This GRR Martin book is only valuable because only 600 were printed so they are like gold dust.

Personally if were a David Eddings book, I'd burn it

I'll need to look it up and see if it's worth anything to be honest. It was an American print run and i found it buried in a second hand book shop in Biloxi about 10 years ago!

But the cover is different from any of the UK editions and thats why I like it!

My only first edition is cut 2 volume edition of Mahan's The Life of Nelson printed 1897. It's still being re-printed, but the first edition is apparently only worth about £50

If I held onto this version of A Game of Thrones for 50 years do you think it would still be valuable?

I kind of doubt it.

In theory it should be worth more - unless he's still alive - and providing the book becomes a 'classic'

Ah but only if it remains a classic and is not forgotten, which I expect it will be. Good as A Song of Ice and Fire is, it'z no Lord of the Rings.

It's only valuable in a certain niche market too, specifically in the USA. It wouldn't be worth spit here in the UK from what the valuer told me.

Dunno - now that the film-going public have been shown to have the patience to attend continuation films (LotR, Harry Potter) look at the books from a cinematographic viewpoint, and you have some very desirable focal points. The books tend to be event driven, rather than personality led (indeed half the major characters are dead.) I think it could go.... providing an influential enough director picked it up.