Fri, 01 Oct 2004
Thank you all
I'm about to head off for the weekend (friends getting married down south), but in the meantime I thought I should just mention that
the Locus SF bestsellers for October '04 list has two entries of great interest to me:
Iron Sunrise enters the hardcover list in a tie for 8th place, while Singularity Sky is at number one in the paperback charts!
I'm sure this is just a mistake. Or something.
(On second thoughts, maybe not. The figures relate to sales in July. As that's the month when Iron Sunrise came
out in hardcover and Singularity Sky went paperback,
this might just be a blip caused by the new releases. In other words,
I'll hold off on uncorking the bubbly until I see if they're both
still in the list next month. I
certainly wouldn't put too much weight on these charts:
it's very much a metric for what the speciality stores are
doing, rather than representing genuine best-sellerdom. Still, it's
nice to know that someone appreciates you.)
[Discuss writing]
posted at: 18:39 | path: /writing | permanent link to this entry
Chicken Tracks
This
photograph (warning: 600Kb) gives me the shivers, for some
reason. It's probably the first ever snapshot of robots exploring a
dead planet, as seen from orbit. Unlike those Apollo boot-prints, these
chicken tracks will be filled in by the next dust storm to happen along.
It's very much a thing of the moment ...
[Discuss space]
posted at: 14:08 | path: /misc | permanent link to this entry
|