Callahan and Company, by Spider Robinson

Wow, that book got here fast! And it was thoroughly wrapped: first in brown paper and addressed to us, then in another envelope with completely different to and from names/addresses, then in newspaper (from 2/10, so clearly it wasn't just moldering), and finally in a plastic bag.

When Rogan got it, he was keeping his expectations low. A limited-run book printed before we were born? Surely there'd be wear and tear.

There isn't. It's pristine. The dust jacket doesn't even have wear. The pages have barely any discoloration at all. It'll clearly last us decades of reading.

Also, now we know why this book goes for over $100 secondhand: there were only 1500 of these babies made (and apparently the first 300 of those were signed and special boxed sets that were $50 new). No wonder! We're not protesting paying $50 now for sure.

We spent the last half hour lovingly adding metadata to the page headers and table of contents and transcribing the bibliographic info from our paperback edition, all of which isn't in the hardback. (Look, we all have hobbies.) We will find some way to duplicate the Foreword from the paperback edition (which also isn't in the hardback), and then we will liberate our beloved paperback to warm the heart of some new friend.

This paperback is the last book we have from childhood. It has been our stalwart companion for twenty-five years. We've been through so much together. It's traveled the world with us!

We are so excited to release it upon its next adventure.

Be free, little book! We love you, and now you will love someone new! You are too good not to share!

--Mori/Sneak/Rogan

Linkdump of Noncorporeal Sexual/Romantic/Queerplatonic Relationships

Because I was looking up this stuff for bodyetal , figured I might as well dump this here! This is a big dump of all the sources I have offhand of people reporting their sexual, romantic, and queerplatonic relationships with noncorporeal beings, including headmates, alters, soulbonds, and spirits. Your mileage may vary on which of these "count" as plural, but since restricting plural talk to medical model and backlash stuff tends to pan out to being super racist, I'll choose being possibly irrelevant instead. I have organized them in chronological order. I have also included works of fiction where the authors have publicly stated it was based on their real life.

( This will be added to and updated over time. Track comments to hear about updates. )