{"id":575,"date":"2008-10-08T16:12:11","date_gmt":"2008-10-08T23:12:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.elbeno.com\/blog\/?p=575"},"modified":"2008-10-08T16:14:29","modified_gmt":"2008-10-08T23:14:29","slug":"knowing-what-to-search-for","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.elbeno.com\/blog\/?p=575","title":{"rendered":"Knowing what to search for"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Internet has its limits. Sometimes one of those limits is simply not knowing what to search for. There is a book that I read in school which I have been trying to track down for many years. It was an anthology of short stories, called <em>Twisters<\/em> &#8211; each story had a surprise ending, you see. I remembered the title, several of the story plots, and that it was purple; but not the author, nor any story titles (nor the ISBN!). Unfortunately, as you can guess, searching for &#8220;twisters&#8221; produces about 100 pages of books about tornadoes.<\/p>\n<p>So it wasn&#8217;t until today, when I was reading <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Great-Science-Fiction-Short-Stories\/dp\/0385130449\/\">a book of short-short stories<\/a> that I happened upon a story that was also in <em>Twisters<\/em>. Adding the appropriate search terms finally led me to <a href=\"http:\/\/books.google.com\/books?id=RPrvLFYwm30C&#038;pg=RA6-PT26&#038;lpg=RA6-PT26&#038;dq=robert+kurosaka+%22a+lot+to+learn%22+twisters&#038;source=web&#038;ots=grDwNFYBbo&#038;sig=1cH-GW6PqtR3Q3sG36I0W3Z6Vm0&#038;hl=en&#038;sa=X&#038;oi=book_result&#038;resnum=1&#038;ct=result\">a google books listing<\/a> which revealed the author (editor) of <em>Twisters<\/em> to be one Steve Bowles.<\/p>\n<p>From there it was a hop and a skip to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.abebooks.com\/\">abebooks<\/a>, and another blast from the past has been tracked down for posterity.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Internet has its limits. Sometimes one of those limits is simply not knowing what to search for. There is a book that I read in school which I have been trying to track down for many years. It was an anthology of short stories, called Twisters &#8211; each story&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-575","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elbeno.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/575","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elbeno.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elbeno.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elbeno.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elbeno.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=575"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.elbeno.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/575\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":580,"href":"https:\/\/www.elbeno.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/575\/revisions\/580"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elbeno.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=575"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elbeno.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=575"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elbeno.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=575"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}