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   From: fwbrown@bellsouth.net   
      
   In rec.arts.tv Richard Fangnail  wrote:   
   > I first saw "City On the Edge of Forever" at my friend's house.  When   
   > Kirk said he was in love with Edith Keeler, my friend went,   
   > "AAAauuuuuuuggghhhhggguuuuugghhhh!"   
   >   
   > Remember the novel of Spock Must Die?  Everybody thought that was so   
   > cool - a Star Trek story that wasn't a tv episode!   
      
   Yes, I still have my copy of James Blish's "Spock Must Die" somewhere.   
   I bought it back when it originally came out in paperback in 1970.  It's   
   been many years since I read it, but I still remember a few things quite   
   vividly -- like Scotty's illusion of being plugged into an old-fashioned   
   circuit diagram (complete with vacuum tubes!) and thinking he'd burn out   
   if someone turned up the gain.  Or Kirk's battle with the duplicate Spock   
   in which he lost his Starfleet Academy class ring.  Or Uhura using Eurish   
   to transmit info to Starfleet because she knew the Klingons wouldn't   
   be able to decipher it.  That, by the way, was my first introduction to   
   James Joyce, and motivated me to read "Finnegans Wake" at the age of 15.   
   I first learned about quarks and tachyons from Blish's book, too.   
      
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