Church of the SubGenius books in libraries

From: cphilipp@nycap.rr.com (Christopher K. Philippo)
Newsgroups: alt.slack
Date: Wed, Apr 16, 2003 11:23 PM

I first read the Book of the SubGenius in the 1980s when I borrowed it
from my local library!

I was curious how many libraries might have it. OCLC Worldcat lists
thirty that have copies of the 1983 printing, fifty-one that have
copies of the 1987 printing; it lists twenty-four that have Revelation
X, 133 that have Three-Fisted Tales, and 206 that have High Weirdness
By Mail! (Unless I'm reading this wrong. Each entry says "OCLC
member libraries worldwide:" followed by a number.)

Four have copies of something titled Homo Patrol, which evidently had
an introduction by Ivan Stang...?

The Biscuit Bible, with its introduction by Philo Drummond came up
with "OCLC member libraries worldwide: 1," but at the end of the entry
it stated "No libraries found with item worldwide."

This weird entry also came up:

All men are equalish :
the view from inside prison, HMP Swansea /
J R Dobbs; Clive Hopwood
1995
English Books 43 p. : ill. ; 21 cm.
Connah's Quay : I*D Books in association with ARTS CARE and BAR NONE
BOOKS, ISBN: 1874600430 (pbk)

I couldn't find any more information about J.R. Dobb's All men are
equalish. Anyone heard of it? Could this be someone pretending to be
*The* J.R. "Bob" Dobbs, or perhaps the same J.R. Dobbs who wrote The
Effect of Heat Treatment on Microfissuring in Alloy 718, and other
scientific essays, or some other Dobbs?

Toff

----------------------------------------------------------------------

From: "Artemia Salina" <y2k@sheayright.com>

On Wed, 16 Apr 2003 20:23:40 -0700, Christopher K. Philippo wrote:

> Four have copies of something titled Homo Patrol, which evidently had
> an introduction by Ivan Stang...?

Well it's either this:

http://www.bolerium.com/cgi-bin/bol48/13606.html

Or this:

http://www.shop-gay.net/6440.html

Probably the latter because it has "documented footage."

No info on "All men are equalish"

--
Research shows that reckless drivers prefer SUVs
over any other type of vehicle.

----== Posted via Newsfeed.Com - Unlimited-Uncensored-Secure Usenet News==----
http://www.newsfeed.com The #1 Newsgroup Service in the World! >100,000 Newsgroups
---= 19 East/West-Coast Specialized Servers - Total Privacy via Encryption =---

----------------------------------------------------------------------

From: nenslo <nenslo@yahooX.com>

Artemia Salina wrote:
>
>
> No info on "All men are equalish"
>

The alleged co-author, Clive Hopwood, comes up in my searches as
author of childrens' material, and such titles as "Dinosaur Fun File"
and "Memories; Reminiscences of Deeside." Nothing comes up on the
ISBN or the title.

Back to document index

Original file name: Church of the SubGen.txt - converted on Thursday, 29 May 2003, 16:37