Being an author at a sci fi con is hit or miss with books. Sometimes
the authors have books for sale at the table, other times they don’t. To be on the safe side I brought a book. I bought a copy of the Dr Who – The Encyclopedia
from Amazon a few weeks earlier. I left the
cover at home so it wouldn’t get ripped.
When I passed the bookover to Gary, he paused and looked at it. He
flipped it open and nodded to himself. Not
sure what happened, I asked if brought the wrong book. He said ‘no’ and that he
just wasn’t sure what book it was without the dust cover so he looked it over.
He continued to explain that the second editions
had an embossed cover and this one didn’t. He pronounced it a first edition (not sure if
that is true but whatever) and then signed.
I told him I was Who fan for decades. I felt myself
something of an elite fan remembering seeing Dr Who in channel 17 in Philly
(not PBS) in 1972. He nodded politely and I realized he really didn’t need to
hear all of that. Before I could beat him down any more, I thanked him and moved
on.
AH
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