I got them in hardback, used, via Amazon. It was worth it. They've also been re-released as expensive paperbacks (I think... though it could be that they're just sort of ugly hardbacks) by some bizarre self-publishing house called iUniverse. I do not understand this: did Snyder desperately want their political message reissued, but her publisher wouldn't do it, so she funded it herself?? They HAD been reissued in paperback several years ago, anyway, because I bought them for my classroom library then.

Anyway, about the 'not believing you' -- yeah. It is pretty excellent seventies utopia/dystopia stuff. I remember how sort of powerfully, frighteningly totemic the GUN was, how Snyder made it seem so amazingly alien an object. The German/French language stuff was interesting, too. At least, I think there was some French mixed into the German. Weird that there wasn't any Russian, as far as I remember.