XPost: alt.fan.tolkien, rec.arts.books.tolkien   
   From: hayesmstw@hotmail.com   
      
   On Sun, 16 Jul 2006 18:09:37 -0500, Larry Swain    
   wrote:   
      
   >Steve Hayes wrote:   
   >> While never as popular as Tolkien or Lewis, Williams has an enthusiastic   
   >> following, but his books are difficult to get and rarely reprinted.   
   >>   
   >> I haven't seen any in bookshops since the 1960s, and my copies are getting   
   old   
   >> and battered.   
   >>   
   >>   
   >I love Williams' novels!  Great stuff, if you go in for that sort of   
   >thing.  Anyway, at least here in the US his books remain in print.  Wm.   
   >Eerdman's keeps them in print and you should be able to find copies   
   >easily enough.  Or if you ask really nicely ;) since I'll be over in   
   >your neck of the woods in late Sept., I can bring a volume or two with   
   >me and post them to you from GB and save you the overseas shipping.   
      
   Thanks very much for the offer, but I'm not in GB, so it would still be   
   overseas. But fiction by US publishers is rarely sold here in South Africa   
   (some sort of cartel agreement between US and British publishers) and so even   
   if they are still in pint, it is unlikely that we'll see them in the   
   bookshops, most of which cater only for the most Philistine of tastes.   
      
   We see Stephen King in profusion (British editions, naturally), but Phil   
   Rickman is hard to find, even though he is a British author, and williams is   
   impossible.   
      
   But as someone else remarked, anyone who enjoyed Lewis's "That hideous   
   strength" should appreciate Williams.   
      
      
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