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The New Hardcover Chronicles

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I just found out about these through tha new 'n improved DN. BH did an introduction for each of them apparently. Does anybody have these, or could post them? I'd be particularly interested to read the GEoD one.
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Have you seen that the Children of Dune cover is printed upside-down? It's more of that wonderful quality-control from the HLP and Tor/McMillen.
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Sandwurm88 wrote:I just found out about these through tha new 'n improved DN. BH did an introduction for each of them apparently. Does anybody have these, or could post them? I'd be particularly interested to read the GEoD one.
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My thoughts exactly. And being a hardcover it would probably make quite a dent in the wall.

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TheDukester wrote:Have you seen that the Children of Dune cover is printed upside-down? It's more of that wonderful quality-control from the HLP and Tor/McMillen.
Actually I find that the funniest part of this whole KJA/BH/HLP/Tor debacle.
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Omphalos wrote:
TheDukester wrote:Have you seen that the Children of Dune cover is printed upside-down? It's more of that wonderful quality-control from the HLP and Tor/McMillen.
Actually I find that the funniest part of this whole KJA/BH/HLP/Tor debacle.
I think that was the thing that finally got my wife to understand just how stupid they all are. Since then she's understood why I spend so much time here.
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Sandwurm88 wrote:Does anybody have these, or could post them? I'd be particularly interested to read the GEoD one.
Seconded. :)
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Absolutely, nothing new in the introductions I read while browsing in the store. In fact, the introductions were so bland they were a prime example just how much Bobo doesn't understand Dune. If I remember correctly, I think he referred to Dune as the big ecology adventure or something equally trivial.

(What always got me is how Bobo always waves the ecology card when refering to Dune, but never offers anything deeper. Otherwords, he refers to Dune with a catch phrase he picked up from a reviewer rather than offering anything insightful for someone who tried to present himself as Frank's heir with all the secret notes or sat in on all those meaningful Thanksgiving dinners.)
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Um ... wasn't it Byron for Thanksgivings and Brian for breakfasts with Wheaties? :?
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SandChigger wrote:Um ... wasn't it Byron for Thanksgivings and Brian for breakfasts with Wheaties? :?
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Brian would probably drink a bottle of alcohol with a pinky toe in it.

Or ... something like that. :?
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SandChigger wrote:Um ... wasn't it Byron for Thanksgivings and Brian for breakfasts with Wheaties? :?
While Brian was having Wheaties for breakfast, Frank was having coffee with Ransom!
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OH HO HO HO HO!!! :lol:

And that knowledge has festered for years and years and years...
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I got my upside-down copy of CoD today.

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