Recent Acquisitions #77

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Poor, dear, neglected LJ. And there've been quite a few acquisitions that won't be listed here, because lazy. Here however is what I picked up at the Christmas market and charity shops on Sunday in Nearby Town.

Farmer in the Sky by Robert A. Heinlein;
Assignment in Eternity by Robert A. Heinlein;
(they were cheap)
Call of the White: Taking the World to the South Pole by Felicity Aston;
The Dynostar Menace by Kit Pedler & Gerry Davis (irresistible title!);
The Diary of a Farmer's Wife, 1796-1797 by Anne Hughes;
Hyperion by Dan Simmons;
Memoirs of a Highland Lady by Elizabeth Grant of Rothiemurchus;
Roma Eterna by Robert Silverberg;
Time of the Fourth Horseman by Chelsea Quinn Yarbro
and
To Rule Britannia: The Claudian Invasion of Britain AD 43 by John Waite.

The guy who sold me Roma Eterna got really close to me in order to explain it's got Romans in modern times and it's an alternate history book! I think he meant well. He also told me the best SF book he's read recently is The Martian.

The Yarbro book is...not in very good condition. But readable. Roma Eterna looks unread and the tiny tiny font might be why *peers*. The font size in Hyperion isn't much better. SF is for the youngsters, apparently. The Dynostar Menace looks like it's ex-library.

Frank gave Peg the farmer's wife's diary in 1994, in the hope that it would amuse her. Perhaps it did.

The polar book looks unread. Poor neglected little thing.

As for the Heinleins...apparently I had forgotten just how sexist the man was. Sigh.