Saturn Run by John Sandford & Ctein

[james_davis_nicoll]

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Saturn Run by John Sandford & Ctein

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[beamjockey.livejournal.com]

I am surprised that your readers need no introduction to the mononymic Ctein. (Though I don't; I've known him for years through mutual congoing.)

Perhaps everyone has read Post Exposure: Advanced Techniques for the Photographic Printer and Digital Restoration from Start to Finish but me.

[icecreamempress.livejournal.com]

I didn't know he was a writer as well as a photographer.

I wonder how the collaboration process went? I know other people who have coauthored with Sandford, but they were younger enough than he to fall naturally into the junior partner role. Ctein is such a senior figure in photography that I wonder how the junior partner role worked for him.

[beamjockey.livejournal.com]

I wonder how the collaboration process went?

According to Ctein, whom I saw a few months ago, it went very well. He seemed pleased with the experience.

By the way, as is not uncommon with hard SF novels, the book has an afterword several pages long (SPOILER ALERT) where the authors comment on the background of the story.

[kiya]

IIRC there was discussion of the collaboration process and how it came about in Scalzi's Big Idea column when the book was on the Big Idea but I am not sufficiently encumbered with spare cycles to be able to go check right now.

[brooksmoses]

http://whatever.scalzi.com/2015/10/08/the-big-idea-ctein/ is the post in question.

[beamjockey.livejournal.com]

Say, that's pretty interesting, and icecreamempress would probably enjoy reading it. Ctein's responses in the comments section shed even more light on the collaboration.

[philrm.livejournal.com]

The only reason I have any idea of who he is is because I read Scalzi's blog moderately often, and he is a fairly regular commenter.

[sanskritabelt.livejournal.com]

I had no idea who Ctein was, and after googling I don't know how I would have known.