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• https://www.google.com/accounts/o8/id?id=AItOawl1T759HLSmQYlROrj7cLQNDQKBBd1JtbU commented on Next year's Hugo novel shortlist ...
  Interesting: my view that publishers are trying to make the statement "There's no real market for eBooks." into a self-fulfilling prophecy. Barnes and Noble, Amazon: "This Is Not a Game" Paperback: $7.99 eBook: $11.99 Sorry, Walter, I'd planned to rush right out and get it, since the webscriptions edition of "Implied Spaces" was so good, but......
• Charlie Stross commented on Next year's Hugo novel shortlist ...
  Greg, the sad fact is that the received wisdom on the subject of collections in the publishing biz this decade (and the last decade too) is that they don't sell well. Indeed, they're very marginal, and you'll be bloody lucky to get one out of a major genre publisher. I did get "Wireless" out of Orbit and Ace ... after nine novels and a bunch of Hugo nominations, and the advance they offered was about half what I get for a novel. Al Reynolds also brought out a collection a year or two ago. J. Random Completely New Author? Not...
• nzelnick commented on Next year's Hugo novel shortlist ...
  I was completely [floored | blown away--you choose the metaphor!] by Rajaniemi's "His Master's Voice" when I heard it on Starship Sofa and I [totally | utterly | completely] agree with our host Mr. Stross on his Greg Egan / Al Reynolds comparison. That story had all of the "let's understand how our brains trick us into consciousness" craziness that Egan can pull off (kinda like Philip K. Dick tripping on Asimov) with Reynold's so-far-gone-into-the-future cartoon anthropological high jinx. But now I have to wait to read it. Damn you writers! Write faster! I demand to be entertained! Sigh. I...
• Charlie Stross commented on Next year's Hugo novel shortlist ...
  "Hardwired" was written a few years before "Neuromancer" ... and sequentially rejected for being too damned weird, until Gibson carved out a niche. At which point it looked like commercial hackwork. Dubjay is anything but a hack, in my view: he's one of my objects of emulation....
• davharris commented on Next year's Hugo novel shortlist ...
  Grr. I put Deep State on my Amazon.co.uk "Books coming in 2011" list (it already has 9 entries, and one is actually for 2012 - must split off a new list - I'm sad that way) but now I see that the hardback has vanished and there's only a paperback. Hope it's a glitch....