Orphan Books, Free to a good home

[jeriendhal]

We're in the process of finally emptying out our storage room so we can kill that $54 monthly drain on our finances. In the process I removed a couple of crates of paperback and RPG supplements I hadn't looked at in years. I'll be keeping most of them (on new shelves we put in) but some I want to get rid of. So if anyone wants any of the books listed here, post a public reply and e-mail your address to me seperately and I'll get them out to you.

Most of the non-fiction on the list is from the library of James Douglass, an NSA mathematician and cryptographer who's estate my dad executed.

Fiction

Sundiver, David Brin
Childhood's End, Arthur C. Clarke
Expanded Universe, Robert A. Heinlein
The Number of the Beast, Robert A. Heinlein (cover scuffed and ripped, but otherwise readable.)
Bimbos of the Death Sun, Sharyn McCrumb
Emergence, David R. Palmer
Time Travellers Strictly Cash, Spider Robinson
Downtown Doonesbury, Gary Trudeau

Non-Fiction

The View From Serendip, Arthur C. Clarke
The A B C of Secret Writing, Colonel Parker Hitt (Small hardback with original paper cover, less than fifty pages, copyright 1935)
Elementary Cryptanalysis, A Mathematical Approach, Abraham Sinkov (paperback, signed by the author with the following inscription "To Jim Douglass, An old friend and colleague with high regard.")
Cryptography, The Science of Secret Writing, Laurence Dwight Smith (Paperback. Cover has seperated from the body of the book, but the pages are intact. Copyright 1943)
Codes Ciphers & Other Cryptic & Clandestine Communication, making & breaking secret messages from hieroglyphs to the internet, Fred B. Wrixon (Large hardback, nearly 700 pages, copyright 1998)
The Encyclopedia of Super Heroes, Jeff Rovin (Oversized paperback. Copyright 1985, so it's way out of date from the modern perspective, but has quite a bit on early Golden Age heroes.)
The Origin and Development of the National Security Agency, George A. Brownell (Volume 35 of "A Cryptographic Series", subtitled "Includes General George C. Marshall's "Eyes-Only" top-secret letter to Thomas E. Dewey during the 1944 presidential campaign." Copyright 1981 by Aegean Park Press)
The Dragonlover's Guide to Pern, Jody Lynn Nye with Anne McCaffrey (First edition)

Roleplaying Supplements

Star Trek: Ship Construction Manual, Second Edition (FASA)
Star Trek IV, The Voyage Home Sourcebook Update, (FASA)
Star Trek: The Triangle (FASA)
Star Trek: The Federation (FASA)

Comments

[kippurbird.livejournal.com]

What is Bimbos of the Death Sun about? It's such a randomly wonderful name.

I wouldn't mind any or all of the Star Trek books or the Origin and Development of the NSA, (I'd take the Pern book but I have both editions already. =D )

[jeriendhal.livejournal.com]

Bimbos is a murder mystery set at a sci-fi convention (the victim is the con's GoH, an author with the writing style of Robert E. Howard and the attitude of Harlan Ellison). I like it, but it tends to get a certain segment of the con going community upset for portraying congoers as... well, con goers. :)