What?! No saxophone-playing complexity scientists? FRIAM has at *least* two of those...
Hmph. See if *I* read your novel. ;-} Seriously, congrats, Pamela! --Doug -- Doug Roberts, RTI International [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] 505-455-7333 - Office 505-670-8195 - Cell On 9/13/07, Pamela McCorduck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > My first novel in over thirty yeas, "The Edge of Chaos," has just been > released. The authors' copies arrived last night. Set mostly in Santa > Fe, though parts of it are set in Frankfurt and Munich, Germany and two > of the major characters come from New York City. > > Here's the copy blurb: > > An internationally renowned scientist who fears she's taken one > scientific risk too many; a distinguished archaeologist who's haunted > by taking too few; a world famous financier who's lost everything > except his money; an art gallery owner with a heartbreaking burden; a > fugitive filmmaker; the head of a battered women's shelter--these are > some of the people who find themselves at the end of the Old Santa Fe > Trail at the end of the 20th century. Chance has brought them from all > over to beautiful legendary Santa Fe, New Mexico, where they shape, > illuminate, and even deform each other's lives unexpectedly, as if on > the very edge of chaos. > > This edge of chaos, a scientific term for that slender territory > between frozen predictabililty and hopeless disorder, is a dangerously > unstable place. Learning and change can only happen there, but always > under threat of sliding back to frozen order--or over into the chaotic > abyss. And Santa Fe's sons and daughters, even now, keep a precarious > foothold on The Edge of Chaos, bringing their own pasts and their > city's rich history into an uncertain but exhilarating future. > > Available on Amazon: > > http://www.amazon.com/Edge-Chaos-Pamela-McCorduck/dp/0865345783/ > ref=sr_1_2/102-5640244-6038511?ie=UTF > > Sorry for the shameless self-promotion, but getting a book out is about > like having a baby, except it takes longer. > > > > > "A little patience, and we shall see the reign of witches pass over, > their spells dissolve, and the people, recovering their true sight, > restore their government to its true principles. It is true that in > the meantime we are suffering deeply in spirit, and incurring the > horrors of war and long oppressions of enormous public debt...If the > game runs sometimes against us at home we must have patience till luck > turns, and then we shall have the opportunity of winning back the > principles we have lost, for this is a game where principles are at > stake." > > Thomas Jefferson > > > ============================================================ > FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv > Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College > lectures, archives, unsubscribe, maps at http://www.friam.org >
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