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Message:: [QUOTE="2manycats, post: 4578607, member: 13761"]Roaring20s has the names correctly. Harlan, Silverberg, & Larry's signatures match those I have - no reason to doubt the others; none of these guys, as far as I've heard, were fan-shy and did go to cons. Harlan was a crank, it's true, but perfectly polite if you weren't assuming he owed you something he didn't. I don't think it would have been too hard for an active fan, willing to travel, to have got all these signatures over a few years in the '80s & early '90s - or he might, like McVicker, have attended the UCLA events and got the signatures there, assuming they spoke after the Medea event (though Niven wasn't on the official list, he's a California native and still, I believe, lives there, so he might well have dropped by - it was a small, collegial community). The Frank Herbert might be the most valuable, since he died in 1986 (in my home town!) and Dune has gone nuts, but the combo, on a document related to a work they all contributed to, gives it a nice synergy. The listing from McVicker includes the limited edition book signed by most of them, which is available elsewhere for $450 - the item you have is most the desirable part of his offering, and has some signatures his lacks - but not, it seems, all authors whose work is in the thing they signed. If there really were only 100 printed, that's QUITE scarce. Nice find, I should be so lucky![/QUOTE]