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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...
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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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Steve VanDevender 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 blurb intriguing, and was completely hooked by the opening pages that described how the captain of the Null Boundary kept himself from being bored by year after year of sublight interstellar travel, while also hinting at many of the wonders in her complex, original, and unsettling vision of the future. I went on to find and read most of the...
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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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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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