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Bush: Why not? Jim Baen's many kindnesses. Crunch time. Plus more.
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Thank you for the article about Jim Baen in today’s American Spectator.
One contribution not mentioned in the article is the publication on the web of the full text of Fallen Angels by Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle.
Long before “global warming” became fashionable, Niven and Pournelle wrote about a world destroyed by misguided attempts to control the climate. To quote from the online summary:
“That government, dedicated to saving the environment from the evils of technology, had been voted into power because everybody knew that the Green House Effect had to be controlled, whatever the cost. But who would have thought that the cost of ending pollution would include not only total government control of day-to-day life, but the onset of a new Ice Age?”
Having passed this link to countless friends over the years, I’m delighted at the opportunity to pass it on to still more.
p>Your readers may be interested in the dozens of other books available in the Baen Free Library . br> — Harry M. Kriz br> Blacksburg, Virginia /p> p> I want to thank you for publishing Hal G.P. Colebatch’s Memoriam to James Patrick Baen. I have been an avid consumer of Baen Books, with their beautiful full color painted paper back covers, for a number of years and yet I had no idea about the life of its publisher. The piece is a fine example of memoriam writing, expounding upon the quiet contributions each of us make with no expectation of worldly glory.
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