From: jack.bohn64@gmail.com   
      
   Your Name wrote:   
   > On 2017-10-31 13:50:48 +0000, Jack Bohn said:   
   >    
   > > Your Name wrote:   
   > >> For American entries only.  :-(   
   > >    
   > > Sorry.  But understand, they only need to collect the names and    
   > > addresses of people in America.   
   >    
   > It's partly due to the over-complicated rules and regulations they    
   > would have to follow to be able to run the competition in other    
   > countries.   
      
   There's variation among our united states, too.  Various drawings, lotteries,   
   or contests, depending on what they want to do, exclude various states.  Then   
   they add the boilerplate phrase: "Offer void where prohibited by law," which   
   used to have me    
   thinking it was obvious, but probably legally means: "If it's illegal for you   
   to do it, we didn't even suggest you try. No Sir. Not us."   
      
   > > I must admit, of the list, I've only read thirteen, with eight I've    
   > > never heard of and couldn't guess the author; I'm so out of touch.   
   >    
   > I have read some of them (unfortunately, in the case of the likes of    
   > "2001" and "Dune") and heard of most of the others ... but "Google [or    
   > Amazon] is your fiend". :-)   
      
   In cases like these, I find isfdb.org a better friend.  (And I think kindly of   
   it in return.)  Entering "Ice" as the title of a book in any brings up a list   
   of things like "Song of Fire and Ice" or "Malice", but ISFDb puts them in   
   alphabetical order    
   rather than whatever the others use -- probably which they think I'm most   
   likely to buy.  Or it quickly dumps me to a tutorial on how to use their   
   search.  Seven books titled only _Ice_.  The most recent from 2009; the oldest   
   from 1974, but with reprints    
   in each decade since, sounds like a classic.  Three novels _Outlander_, add   
   two _The Outlander_, but throw out the 1930 book since the 20th anniversary   
   edition probably isn't still hanging around (and ignore three _The   
   Outlanders_)... one has lead to a    
   series, that'll be my guess.  A century ago P.G. Wodehouse put a note in one   
   of his books that he had planned to title it "Love in Spring", but his agent   
   informed him that there were five other books titled "Love in Spring" THAT   
   YEAR!   
      
   --    
   -Jack   
      
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