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02-09-1998: I listed CB as one of my favourite books on an
old web page. Every now and then, I'd get an e-mail from someone saying how
much he or she also enjoyed the book. Finally, I'd had enough. I decided to
create a mailing list. I trawled USENET and the Web and dug up thirty or so
addresses to start with. The response was generally favourable.
The list is quiet for long periods, but unexpectedly flares up every so
often.
17-07-1999: "Through appropriately clandestine means,"
ACW got wind of my little endeavour. He asked the list to let him know about
any CB-related net activity. Anything reported would go into a proposal
package he was preparing arguing the case for CB's re-release.
Showing True Bandito foolhardiness, he risked his very sanity by inviting
the list to ask him questions.
As an aside, he casually mentioned that his new book, In Search of
Captain Zero, was "in the final throes." It will be available in
2001.
05-10-1999: ACW sent a message to the mailing list asking
his fans to support his efforts to get CB republished. He asked everyone to
write to Bjorn and Sven's Sci-Fi and Fantasy Review saying why they
like the book so much and how much they'd like to see it back in print. Bjorn
and Sven would then forward all these messages of support to ACW. He and his
agent would take them to meetings with prospective publishers to back up
their proposal.
18-01-2000: After innumerable delays and endless stalling
on my part, The Unofficial Cosmic Banditos Website finally went online at [defunct].
19-01-2000: Well, it was bound to happen sooner or later
and it finally did. I got an e-mail from someone living in Belgium calling
himself Kurisu. He's put the first four chapters of CB online and
promised to have the entire text of the book online eventually. What ACW will
make of all this I don't know, but Kurisu re-assured me that he'd take the
material off the server if there were objections from certain quarters.
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