Word: rarer
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What ever happened to science fiction? In the 70s, readers were inundated with novels by giants of the genre: Theodore Sturgeon, Robert Heinlein, Ray Bradbury and scores of others. But bookstore shelves have grown barer and the names rarer. Even so, a handful of practitioners show that this may be merely a hiatus before the renaissance...
...responsibility to exercise its power with delicacy, the ability of the printed word to wreak havoc in people's lives, the need for social restraints to balance writers' unassailable freedom to publish whatever they want. It's rare, however, that the book industry faces such a conundrum, and rarer still that authorities try to crack down on book publishers. Freedom-of-the-press buffs, then, will do well to watch closely as a French publishing house and two Parisian author-journalists grapple the moral questions surrounding their publication of a how-to manual on committing suicide...
This balming of the sore by the psyche may be the best palliative. Once anger and aggression are dealt with, says Therapist Riccio, a herpes sufferer can develop the kind of psychological calm that makes recurrences milder and rarer. Most manage that within six months, according to Fordham Professor Oscar Gillespie, a co-founder of the New York Help chapter. "Given the appropriate information," Gillespie says, "90% of herpes sufferers will adjust after the initial crisis...
...follow. Among well-known bibliophiles, Carter Burden Jr., New York political hopeful and socialite, is reportedly amassing what experts believe will be the definitive collection of contemporary American first editions. Author Ray Bradbury favors such English novelists as Somerset Maugham and Evelyn Waugh, and Bestseller Irving Wallace collects rarer chart toppers like a signed edition of The Thin Man, for which he paid $ 1,500 last year...
...megabucks, however, do not rest in standard first editions but in bound galleys, the paper-wrapped publisher's advance copies distributed to reviewers, talk-show hosts and other promotional outlets. Galleys are rarer: usually only 50 to 200 are printed. A copy of V., by the elusive Thomas Pynchon, brings $350 in a first edition, $850 in a bound galley. A well-preserved galley of Salinger's Catcher in the Rye commands $5,000. Even pop chillers like Stephen King's Carrie are listed at $200 in galley form...