Steve VanDevender
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Commented on New Guest Blogger: Linda Nagata
One time while browsing at a book store I came across this book with a hideous yellow cover titled Vast. I guess it was a successful tactic for the cover designer since I did pick up the book, found the...
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gravelbelly22 commented on
New Guest Blogger: Linda Nagata
Well, I've already bought and read The Bohr Maker... Worth it. ;) My two highest-reliability filters for new fiction are OGH's choice of guests, and Mike at Transreal ;)...
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trey.palmer commented on
New Guest Blogger: Linda Nagata
Wow. Its been ages since I read the Bohr Maker. I remember largely enjoying it except for one thing - what the hell happened to communications satellites? Aerostats? Little things like that because IIRC most communications got run through the beanstalk. Anyway, I think I'll go rummage through the large internet store named for a river our host dislikes so. I know. I have gift cards is all I can say....
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Linda Nagata commented on
New Guest Blogger: Linda Nagata
Wow! Thank you all for so many kind words. It's really appreciated. To answer some questions, and starting with Waters at #2, the US YA market confuses me. I thought I'd written a YA novel with Skye Object, but now I think it's more middle-grade. Everything else I've written is adult, though Memory can be treated as YA. Hi wishamc! and Go Warriors! I never used to watch football when I actually went to U of Hawaii, but that's changed. dkittrell, bellinghman is right. See my guest post for why I've gone with self-publishing. resuna, "Never say never" right? I've...
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https://www.google.com/accounts/o8/id?id=AItOawnPSnqo1e9OwGQgwwIb1uZF5W6Qoyh5MLE commented on
New Guest Blogger: Linda Nagata
Hugely happy to have been turned on to this - the Bohr Maker is absolutely excellent and I have acquired the rest of the nanotech sequence. The ability to do this is exactly why even though Amazon is evil, the new publishing is a force for good....
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Nix commented on
New Guest Blogger: Linda Nagata
Oh, that name. The Null Boundary is one of the aptest names for a starship I've ever seen in SF. I find it mildly amusing that a Wikipedia search for "Null Boundary" now gives you a hit for Vast before anything relating to relativity......
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