Careful now Scott. You're sounding like a "completist". Query: If you're not completely "completist", can you be partially "completist"?

I did go to a completist support group but got kicked out for not having perfect attendance.

I did go to a completist support group but got kicked out for not having perfect attendance.

rim shot please

Why, you'd then be an "Incompletist," right? Good God, I'm away from my internet cafe for a few days and I find the new board. And poor me a computer illiterate! Well, that's gonna have to change. Looks like the broken-down bluesman will be doin' some more hard-travelin'. Can we still reply to postings from the old board. I'm (sob) in a maze in a daze. Biggles--halp!

Why, you'd then be an "Incompletist," right? Good God, I'm away from my internet cafe for a few days and I find the new board. And poor me a computer illiterate! Well, that's gonna have to change. Looks like the broken-down bluesman will be doin' some more hard-travelin'. Can we still reply to postings from the old board. I'm (sob) in a maze in a daze. Biggles--halp!

I may not be computer illiterate, but I only know enough to be dangerous. Jim and the co-queens are your best bets for "helpful" information. On the other hand, if you want me to dazzle you with bullshit, I'm certainly capable.

I may not be computer illiterate, but I only know enough to be dangerous. Jim and the co-queens are your best bets for "helpful" information. On the other hand, if you want me to dazzle you with bullshit, I'm certainly capable.

Thank you, Biggles, but I was just surprised by the new board. I'll figure it out (he said with grim determination).

On the other hand, if you want me to dazzle you with bullshit, I'm certainly capable.

Biggles is good at the bullshitting as anyone who attended GU-3 can attest.

Biggles is good at the bullshitting as anyone who attended GU-3 can attest.

Well, God has granted each of us our talents, hasn't He? All our worthy in His eyes.

Correct. AFTERSHOCK & OTHERS will contain all my short fiction (sans the Midnight Mass triptych) written in the 90's

Hey, I'm replying to myself.

Just got the contract for two new RJ novels and a collection. AFTERSHOCK & OTHERS is due for delivery Dec. 2006. It will contain the following (remember, the collections run chronologically by time written, not published):

1990
Dreams
November Game
When He Was Fab
Foet

1991
Please Don’t Hurt Me
The Wringer
Freak Show

1992
(none)

1993
Aryans and Absinthe

1994
Offshore
Itsy Bitsy Spider

1995
(the word)

1996
(none)

1997
Lysing Toward Bethlehem

1998
Night Dive
Aftershock

1999
Anna
Performance

2000
(none)

FPW

Thanks for the list. Now, I just have to be patient.

1995
(the word)


I can't be expected to wait until 2006 surely! I suppose I could start rereading everything I have though... and judging by my reading speed, that should take me well beyond 3006, let alone 2006! That's one of the good news/bad news things regarding this internet malarky. You hear about things so far in advance that it seems to take forever to happen.

I'll never forget the time I first assaulted the search engine with the phrase 'F Paul Wilson' though. At the time I only had half a dozen books (what can I say, Sunny England has never embraced The Man like your New York Times bestseller's list apparantly has!) and to find dozens more at my fingertips was a great day indeed.

But getting back to the point, here's a question: Why is (the word) in brackets?