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*******                Battle Circle 2 - Var the Stick                ******
*******                          Piers Anthony                        ******

Book Supplier : Zophar                Release Date : 23/10/2000
Scanner       : SeaGull               NO. Of Disks : 01
Packager      : SeaGull               Format       : txt/lit/html

Proofers      : CeMeRun               Cover art included: Y
Quality control   : Zaphod
Release Number    : 27

Jacket Blurb

Var was the chosen one-half man, half animal, a mutant victim of the Blast-
called upon to rescue the empire in a battle he was secretly afraid of
winning.

What's In Progress?

Here's the list of projects on the go. The letter codes before each
title is interpreted according to the following:

-S means the raw scan has been done
-P means all we have is a paperback copy, and the test scan showed a lot of
errors. We're looking for the hardcover to scan it before we inflict it on
our valiant proof reading team.
-C means we scanned it from various sources, and the scan is of mixed quality
(applies to collections, anthologies, series, etc...)
-I means scanning is in progress
-Q means we have a raw scan, but there are quality issues that will slow
release
-O means the raw text, or at least part of it, has been sent out to proof
readers
-F means all parts of the raw text have been returned by proof readers, and
the text is awaiting final proof reading

SQ	Night of Power by Spider Robinson
SO	Gateway (and the other four Heechee books) by Frederick Pohl
I	Time Enough for Love by Robert A Heinlein
SO (Q?)	Rocket Ship Galileo by Robert A Heinlein
SO	Battle Circle (released as three novels) by Piers Anthony
IO	Cities in Flight (four novels) by James Blish
SO	The Stars My Destination by Alfred Bester
SO	The Genesis Machine by James P Hogan
F	The Avatar by Poul Anderson
SO	Foundation's Edge by Isaac Asimov
SOQ	Sixth Column by Robert A Heinlein
SO	The Best of Frederick Pohl, edited by Lester Del Rey
SO	The Best of Murray Leinster, edited by J.J.
SO	Assorted short stories and novellas by Alfred Bester
SO	Assorted short stories and novellas by Murray Leinster
S	Assorted short stories and novellas by Roger Zelazny
S	Assorted short stories by Spider Robinson
SO	The Proteus Operation by James P Hogan
SO	The Ringworld Throne, by Larry Niven
I	A Canticle for Leibowitz by Walter M Miller Jr
I	Expanded Universe by Robert A Heinlein
I	Identity Matrix by Jack L Chalker
I	The Deathworld Trilogy by Harry Harrison (released as three novels)
I	Twilight World by Poul Andersen

NOTE: Code of the Lifemaker was withdrawn from the list because someone has
already produced a digital copy of the book.

By the time you're reading this, it may be a bit out of date, but at
least you'll have an idea of what's going on. We're going to stop picking on
Larry Niven after we release Footfall (somebody else is taking care of
picking on him:)) except we may scan Oath of Fealty in the (somewhat) near
future.

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********                   News and Release List                      *******

We thought Booklist was dead. IT AIN'T! If you have the slightest interest
in e-books (non-computer), go to http://citizen513.cjb.net now. Booklist is
the most complete list of e-texts available.

If anyone out there has a copy of Callahan's Secret by Spider Robinson, and
a scanner, you can earn SeaGull's undying gratitude by sending him a scan at
seagull26@hotmail.com. It doesn't even have to be a good scan, although that
would help.

We need still more proof readers. E-mail zopharnal@hotmail.com for details.
No fringe benefits, no glory(well, some glory, but damn little) just a lot of
hard work.

Some of our earlier releases were not quite up to standard. Look for updated
and corrected versions in the future, with better cover scans.

Releases so far:

Release	001	Voyage from Yesteryear by James P Hogan
Release	002	The Gripping Hand by Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle
Release	003	Spirals (Short Story) by Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle
Release	004	Double Star by Robert A Heinlein
Release	005	The Mote in God's Eye by Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle
Release	006	Callahan's Lady by Spider Robinson
Release	007	Stranger in a Strange Land by Robert A Heinlein
Release	008	The Door Into Summer by Robert A Heinlein
Release	009	Neutron Star (Short Story) by Larry Niven
Release	010	Relic of the Empire (Short Story) by Larry Niven
Release	011	Friday by Robert A Heinlein
Release	012	Callahan's Legacy by Spider Robinson
Release	013	The Stainless Steel Rat Goes to Hell by Harry Harrison
Release	014	Neutron Star (Short Story Collection) by Larry Niven
Release	015	A Gift From Earth by Larry Niven
Release	016	Tales of Known Space by Larry Niven
Release	017	The Ringworld Engineers by Larry Niven
Release	018	Footfall by Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle
Release	019	Orphans of the Sky by Robert A Heinlein
Release	020	Farnham's Freehold by Robert A Heinlein
Release	021	Slaughterhouse Five by Kurt Vonnegut Jr
Release	022	Beyond the Blue Event Horizon (Heechee Saga 2 )by Frederick Pohl
Release	023	The Past Through Tomorrow by Robert A Heinlein
Release	024	A Jungle of Stars by Jack L Chalker
Release	025	Nightfall by Isaac Asimov and Robert Silverberg
Release 026	Battle Circle Trilogy 1 - Sos the Rope by Piers Anthony
Release 027	Battle Circle Trilogy 2 - Var the Stick by Piers Anthony

Note: We Do Not Mail our releases, so don't ask, please

********                     How to contact us                       *******

Contact Info :          IRC   : #Bookwarez on Dalnet

Last Updated [10/14/00] by SeaGull

FAQs:

Q:	What do you mean by quality?
A:	Many (if not most) of the scans we've seen are unformatted raw text files, fresh from the scanner. OCR errors make the reading experience much less enjoyable. Our releases are spell checked, proof read, and compared to the original for an absolute minimum of errors. In addition, cover scans will be included with each release.

Q:	Can I download this file if I don't own a paper copy?
A:	No. Buy the book ya cheap bastid. The e-book versions are intended solely as a back-up copy for the personal use of those entitled to have a copy (ie: those who have made sure the author got paid). If you don't have the paper copy, delete this file now.

Q:	Isn't scanning, proof-reading, etc a hell of a lot of work?
A:	Yes, it is. If you want to help NAL, contact Zophar at zopharnal@hotmail.com. Put NAL as the subject of your e-mail, or it will be ignored.
NAL is looking for members with scanners, a large SF library, a good OCR proggy (which we can supply), and some time to dedicate to preserving classic SF. If you don't own a scanner, you can still help as a proof reader. Mail Zophar. We are particularly interested in proof readers who own the dead tree editions (ie: paper) of ongoing projects, since it helps enormously to have the paper copy as a reference when proof reading (see the 'What's next for release' list below.) Proof readers will be e-mailed approximately 100 pages of the raw OCR text, and are expected to remove page headers and footers, spell check, correct OCR errors, correct formatting errors, and return the proof read text in a timely manner (generally within 7 days of getting it). If you have a favourite book you would like to see in e-text format, mail Zophar with a request. Requests that are accompanied by a proof read text file will be given priority..:)

Q:	Where can I get NAL releases?
A:	Try #bookwarez on DalNet, or alt.binaries.e-books on usenet. All NAL releases are regularly posted to usenet. After what happened to the Bookwarez site a while back, we'll pass on www.