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May. 25th, 2007
Death and the author
May. 25th, 2007 04:27 pmIs there an easy way to see how quickly an author's works fall out of print after they die?
Inspired by not seeing anything by Poul Anderson in Chapters but I am really thinking of the situation with Simak, who went from a household name within SF to having all of two books in print a decade later, one of which was from Tachyon, a [no offense] relatively minor publishing house.
ObDarkside: John Pelan's Darkside Press is publishing all of Simak's short fiction.
http://www.darksidepress.com/
Inspired by not seeing anything by Poul Anderson in Chapters but I am really thinking of the situation with Simak, who went from a household name within SF to having all of two books in print a decade later, one of which was from Tachyon, a [no offense] relatively minor publishing house.
ObDarkside: John Pelan's Darkside Press is publishing all of Simak's short fiction.
http://www.darksidepress.com/
Death and the author
May. 25th, 2007 04:27 pmIs there an easy way to see how quickly an author's works fall out of print after they die?
Inspired by not seeing anything by Poul Anderson in Chapters but I am really thinking of the situation with Simak, who went from a household name within SF to having all of two books in print a decade later, one of which was from Tachyon, a [no offense] relatively minor publishing house.
ObDarkside: John Pelan's Darkside Press is publishing all of Simak's short fiction.
http://www.darksidepress.com/
Inspired by not seeing anything by Poul Anderson in Chapters but I am really thinking of the situation with Simak, who went from a household name within SF to having all of two books in print a decade later, one of which was from Tachyon, a [no offense] relatively minor publishing house.
ObDarkside: John Pelan's Darkside Press is publishing all of Simak's short fiction.
http://www.darksidepress.com/
Death and the author
May. 25th, 2007 04:27 pmIs there an easy way to see how quickly an author's works fall out of print after they die?
Inspired by not seeing anything by Poul Anderson in Chapters but I am really thinking of the situation with Simak, who went from a household name within SF to having all of two books in print a decade later, one of which was from Tachyon, a [no offense] relatively minor publishing house.
ObDarkside: John Pelan's Darkside Press is publishing all of Simak's short fiction.
http://www.darksidepress.com/
Inspired by not seeing anything by Poul Anderson in Chapters but I am really thinking of the situation with Simak, who went from a household name within SF to having all of two books in print a decade later, one of which was from Tachyon, a [no offense] relatively minor publishing house.
ObDarkside: John Pelan's Darkside Press is publishing all of Simak's short fiction.
http://www.darksidepress.com/
Another idea that I will never use
May. 25th, 2007 06:58 pmHumans discover some method of traversing interstellar distances quickly, only to discover that many of the reachable systems [1] are littered with the relics of a highly advanced and now apparently extinct race. Some time later, we run into beings who claim to be the Old Ones and although it is painfully clear to any unbiased observer that they cannot be (different body plans, different biochemistry, perhaps a tech level inferior to humanity's), many people -- including people with political influence -- are so desperate to contact the once-great Old Ones that they accept the claim anyway.
Yes, this is just Tichborne Claimant with antennae. I don't think the Victorians were all that much more gullible than we are.
1: This is less surprising if the method used to traverse interstellar distances quickly is itself a relic of the Old Ones [2].
2: Wouldn't it be amusing if, being all alien and stuff, the worlds linked by the Old One network were selected by criteria that were important to the Old Ones (Systems including worlds with decades-long seasons, including those vital methane monsoons which all storm-watchers treasure) but not so much to us?
If we had some means of transporting bulk goods cheapy across vast distances, would we explore the nearer stars or would we just import hydrocarbons from Titan?
Yes, this is just Tichborne Claimant with antennae. I don't think the Victorians were all that much more gullible than we are.
1: This is less surprising if the method used to traverse interstellar distances quickly is itself a relic of the Old Ones [2].
2: Wouldn't it be amusing if, being all alien and stuff, the worlds linked by the Old One network were selected by criteria that were important to the Old Ones (Systems including worlds with decades-long seasons, including those vital methane monsoons which all storm-watchers treasure) but not so much to us?
If we had some means of transporting bulk goods cheapy across vast distances, would we explore the nearer stars or would we just import hydrocarbons from Titan?
Another idea that I will never use
May. 25th, 2007 06:58 pmHumans discover some method of traversing interstellar distances quickly, only to discover that many of the reachable systems [1] are littered with the relics of a highly advanced and now apparently extinct race. Some time later, we run into beings who claim to be the Old Ones and although it is painfully clear to any unbiased observer that they cannot be (different body plans, different biochemistry, perhaps a tech level inferior to humanity's), many people -- including people with political influence -- are so desperate to contact the once-great Old Ones that they accept the claim anyway.
Yes, this is just Tichborne Claimant with antennae. I don't think the Victorians were all that much more gullible than we are.
1: This is less surprising if the method used to traverse interstellar distances quickly is itself a relic of the Old Ones [2].
2: Wouldn't it be amusing if, being all alien and stuff, the worlds linked by the Old One network were selected by criteria that were important to the Old Ones (Systems including worlds with decades-long seasons, including those vital methane monsoons which all storm-watchers treasure) but not so much to us?
If we had some means of transporting bulk goods cheapy across vast distances, would we explore the nearer stars or would we just import hydrocarbons from Titan?
Yes, this is just Tichborne Claimant with antennae. I don't think the Victorians were all that much more gullible than we are.
1: This is less surprising if the method used to traverse interstellar distances quickly is itself a relic of the Old Ones [2].
2: Wouldn't it be amusing if, being all alien and stuff, the worlds linked by the Old One network were selected by criteria that were important to the Old Ones (Systems including worlds with decades-long seasons, including those vital methane monsoons which all storm-watchers treasure) but not so much to us?
If we had some means of transporting bulk goods cheapy across vast distances, would we explore the nearer stars or would we just import hydrocarbons from Titan?
Another idea that I will never use
May. 25th, 2007 06:58 pmHumans discover some method of traversing interstellar distances quickly, only to discover that many of the reachable systems [1] are littered with the relics of a highly advanced and now apparently extinct race. Some time later, we run into beings who claim to be the Old Ones and although it is painfully clear to any unbiased observer that they cannot be (different body plans, different biochemistry, perhaps a tech level inferior to humanity's), many people -- including people with political influence -- are so desperate to contact the once-great Old Ones that they accept the claim anyway.
Yes, this is just Tichborne Claimant with antennae. I don't think the Victorians were all that much more gullible than we are.
1: This is less surprising if the method used to traverse interstellar distances quickly is itself a relic of the Old Ones [2].
2: Wouldn't it be amusing if, being all alien and stuff, the worlds linked by the Old One network were selected by criteria that were important to the Old Ones (Systems including worlds with decades-long seasons, including those vital methane monsoons which all storm-watchers treasure) but not so much to us?
If we had some means of transporting bulk goods cheapy across vast distances, would we explore the nearer stars or would we just import hydrocarbons from Titan?
Yes, this is just Tichborne Claimant with antennae. I don't think the Victorians were all that much more gullible than we are.
1: This is less surprising if the method used to traverse interstellar distances quickly is itself a relic of the Old Ones [2].
2: Wouldn't it be amusing if, being all alien and stuff, the worlds linked by the Old One network were selected by criteria that were important to the Old Ones (Systems including worlds with decades-long seasons, including those vital methane monsoons which all storm-watchers treasure) but not so much to us?
If we had some means of transporting bulk goods cheapy across vast distances, would we explore the nearer stars or would we just import hydrocarbons from Titan?
Continuity of tone
May. 25th, 2007 07:15 pmI think the last time I looked at Little Orphan Annie was when a commemorative collection came out in the 1970s but this strip is entirely in keeping with the sentiments of the strips I saw. One that comes to mind when I see this is one where Daddy Warbucks has (either invented or paid for the development of) a super-alloy, which he proposes to make an American monopoly, since America comes first.
Continuity of tone
May. 25th, 2007 07:15 pmI think the last time I looked at Little Orphan Annie was when a commemorative collection came out in the 1970s but this strip is entirely in keeping with the sentiments of the strips I saw. One that comes to mind when I see this is one where Daddy Warbucks has (either invented or paid for the development of) a super-alloy, which he proposes to make an American monopoly, since America comes first.
Continuity of tone
May. 25th, 2007 07:15 pmI think the last time I looked at Little Orphan Annie was when a commemorative collection came out in the 1970s but this strip is entirely in keeping with the sentiments of the strips I saw. One that comes to mind when I see this is one where Daddy Warbucks has (either invented or paid for the development of) a super-alloy, which he proposes to make an American monopoly, since America comes first.
Would it be wrong
May. 25th, 2007 08:06 pmto post an alarmed entry about how Livejournal is secretly changing their Terms of Service, that they are deleting accounts that do not meet the new, secret TOS and that if people want to keep their accounts, they should remove the letter "e" from their entries?
Would it be wrong
May. 25th, 2007 08:06 pmto post an alarmed entry about how Livejournal is secretly changing their Terms of Service, that they are deleting accounts that do not meet the new, secret TOS and that if people want to keep their accounts, they should remove the letter "e" from their entries?
Would it be wrong
May. 25th, 2007 08:06 pmto post an alarmed entry about how Livejournal is secretly changing their Terms of Service, that they are deleting accounts that do not meet the new, secret TOS and that if people want to keep their accounts, they should remove the letter "e" from their entries?
Footfall as a guide to real life.
I think this part sums it up the best:
And so the conversation went at the closed door session held on Monday by S&T's [Directorate] Rolf Dietrich with some of the premier science fiction writers in the country. Bear and Dr. Virginia Bush (Sage Walker) were joined by Dr. Arlan Andrews, Dr. Yogi [sic] Kondo (Eric Kontani), Dr. Larry Niven, and Dr. Jerry Pournelle. They are all top noch scientists, and - collectively - award-winning authors of hundreds of science fiction novels. Their group, SIGMA, is a "think tank" of real scientists who also think about and write about "speculative science."
Nicked from james_angove
I think this part sums it up the best:
And so the conversation went at the closed door session held on Monday by S&T's [Directorate] Rolf Dietrich with some of the premier science fiction writers in the country. Bear and Dr. Virginia Bush (Sage Walker) were joined by Dr. Arlan Andrews, Dr. Yogi [sic] Kondo (Eric Kontani), Dr. Larry Niven, and Dr. Jerry Pournelle. They are all top noch scientists, and - collectively - award-winning authors of hundreds of science fiction novels. Their group, SIGMA, is a "think tank" of real scientists who also think about and write about "speculative science."
Nicked from james_angove
Footfall as a guide to real life.
I think this part sums it up the best:
And so the conversation went at the closed door session held on Monday by S&T's [Directorate] Rolf Dietrich with some of the premier science fiction writers in the country. Bear and Dr. Virginia Bush (Sage Walker) were joined by Dr. Arlan Andrews, Dr. Yogi [sic] Kondo (Eric Kontani), Dr. Larry Niven, and Dr. Jerry Pournelle. They are all top noch scientists, and - collectively - award-winning authors of hundreds of science fiction novels. Their group, SIGMA, is a "think tank" of real scientists who also think about and write about "speculative science."
Nicked from james_angove
I think this part sums it up the best:
And so the conversation went at the closed door session held on Monday by S&T's [Directorate] Rolf Dietrich with some of the premier science fiction writers in the country. Bear and Dr. Virginia Bush (Sage Walker) were joined by Dr. Arlan Andrews, Dr. Yogi [sic] Kondo (Eric Kontani), Dr. Larry Niven, and Dr. Jerry Pournelle. They are all top noch scientists, and - collectively - award-winning authors of hundreds of science fiction novels. Their group, SIGMA, is a "think tank" of real scientists who also think about and write about "speculative science."
Nicked from james_angove
Footfall as a guide to real life.
I think this part sums it up the best:
And so the conversation went at the closed door session held on Monday by S&T's [Directorate] Rolf Dietrich with some of the premier science fiction writers in the country. Bear and Dr. Virginia Bush (Sage Walker) were joined by Dr. Arlan Andrews, Dr. Yogi [sic] Kondo (Eric Kontani), Dr. Larry Niven, and Dr. Jerry Pournelle. They are all top noch scientists, and - collectively - award-winning authors of hundreds of science fiction novels. Their group, SIGMA, is a "think tank" of real scientists who also think about and write about "speculative science."
Nicked from james_angove
I think this part sums it up the best:
And so the conversation went at the closed door session held on Monday by S&T's [Directorate] Rolf Dietrich with some of the premier science fiction writers in the country. Bear and Dr. Virginia Bush (Sage Walker) were joined by Dr. Arlan Andrews, Dr. Yogi [sic] Kondo (Eric Kontani), Dr. Larry Niven, and Dr. Jerry Pournelle. They are all top noch scientists, and - collectively - award-winning authors of hundreds of science fiction novels. Their group, SIGMA, is a "think tank" of real scientists who also think about and write about "speculative science."
Nicked from james_angove