Merci!
On Sep 26, 2007, at 10:09 PM, Stephen Guerin wrote: > The Amazon truck came today. Congratulations, Pamela!! > > -S > >> -----Original Message----- >> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Pamela McCorduck >> Sent: Thursday, September 13, 2007 9:55 AM >> To: The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group >> Subject: Re: [FRIAM] Shameless self-promotion >> >> One of our complexity scientists in this novel claims she >> plays the piano passably. >> >> >> On Sep 13, 2007, at 10:40 AM, Douglas Roberts wrote: >> >> >> >> 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: >> >> >> 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 >> >> >> >> > > > ============================================================ > 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 > > "A Messiah who actually arrives is no good to anybody. A hope fulfilled is already half a disappointment." Michael Chabon, "The Yiddish Policemen's Union" ============================================================ 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
