Everybody wants a free copy. If you knew how stingy publishers are with free copies… Oh, wait. You certainly DO know. Never mind.
Thanks for the kind words. I’d send a copy if I could, but I want to send copies to as many reviewers as I can.
Boy, I just saw the issue of Analog on the newsstands a couple of days ago, but already there are at least three reviews online of the stories in it.
Reviews of my story are generally unimpressive. I’d quote them or link to them, but they give too much away.
Oh, well, at least mine wasn’t the “stupid story that anyone with half a brain can see the end of.”
I’m bumping this because I finally received my advance copy !!
It’s got positive blurbs on the back and everything! Damn, I’d buy this book if they hadn’t sent it to me.
(Does “Happy New Book Dance”, as Eve always described)
I ordered a copy from Amazon because I love reading about science as much as I love reading science.
Congrats on all the publishing!
The book is officially out, but not in stores until next week. But I purchased an e-book copy last night and found something interesting and unexpected.
The internet URL references I used are all active hyperlinks on the e-book, so that when I click on them I am taken to the youtube videos or the journal articles that I cited, directly. I hadn’t expected this at all. It makes the e-book version into a multimedia event. You can see some of the phenomena in action, or directly read the original 19th century sources. An unexpected benefit.
And a bit annoying. Some URLs – especially ones from Google Books, which gave the easiest access to odd books and magazines, with titles like 19th Century Bricklayer* – are absurdly long. The editors asked if they could eliminate some of the longer ones, and I said “yes”, because I couldn’t imagine anyone actually typing in such ridiculously long strings of nonsense characters. But it turns out that, if we had kept all of them, people wouldn’t have to go to all the trouble of typing them – they’re automatically hyperlinked. Well, if anyone’s curious, I give the date and title, and they can still find them.
*Not an actual title, but not far off. There were 19th century journals for railroad engineers and for gaslight illumination experts.
Thanks for bumping this. My mom has been asking me what I want for Christmas, and now I know!
Son of a gun! I’m on YouTube!
Nobody said anything about this – I stumbled across it doing a vanity search. I’m assuming the publicity people punched it into some software that reads the copy. It sounds like HAL’s slightly dyslexic cousin is advertising the book.
Oxford University Press also put up a special piece I wrote for the OUP Blog:
That has to be pretty cool to find your work on Youtube like that.
It kinda makes me wonder just how the ray gun DID get it’s zap.