Doug -
Thanks for the honorable mention, Steve!
You are always welcome! I throw those things in just to make sure you
read my massive missives to the end (or at least grep for your name!)...
BTW, I'm now qualified to give seminars, workshops, etc. that provide
clinical proof of how rapidly your book sales can (will!) fall off a
cliff without a pretty aggressive, ongoing marketing plan.
Sorry to hear that, but it is not surprising in these times... have
sales gone to zero? Or just asymptotically approaching.
http://www.amazon.com/Second-Cousins-ebook/dp/B004WF4DXE
How's this for aggressive and ongoing marketing? When do I get my
agent's commission (2 fingers of Chivas)?
BTW... who IS this Doug Roberts from Rio Grande Ohio?
http://www.amazon.com/Douglas-Roberts/e/B0034PDCYE/ref=ntt_athr_dp_pel_pop_1
--Doug
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On Fri, Jul 20, 2012 at 2:43 PM, Steve Smith <[email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
Jochen -
I met George when I used to hang with some of the local (NM) SF
authors, I've since dropped out of that crowd.
I also hosted a series of events at LANL during the 1998 Nebula
awards... At that event I even met a woman (SF/F Author who
claimed to have accidentally started the Society for Creative
Anachronism when she invited all of her friends and aquaintences
and colleagues to her house in Berkeley to celebrate her recent
Masters in Medieval Studies and they all showed up in period
costume and weaponry.... I can't remember her name now and could
not corroborate her story.
George is a lot like many of the SF/F authors I know... only a bit
more successful than most. I found George to be a self-important
curmudgeon long before he hit it bigtime (while he was producing
the work that he would hit it bigtime with!)... so I can't
imagine that has decreased. The Game of Thrones series (even
before it got picked up by HBO) was very powerful even though it
is not my usual fare. George also initiated and edited a series
of collected/themed short stories known as "the Wild Card" stories
which in my opinion presaged (or inspired, or informed) the
"Heroes" HBO series. These are (I think he's still cranking them
out) very good examples of collaborative fiction as well...
We (NM) recently (2006) lost the legendary Jack Williamson at the
ripe young age of 98... he came to NM by way of covered wagon just
around 1912/statehood (age 4). He was incredibly prolific right
up until his last few years, and managed to get credit for many
neologisms from Science Fiction as documented in the Oxford
English Dictionary.... including my favorite "contra-terrene"
(anti-matter). He also told a great anecdote about being visited
by the FBI during the Manhattan project because of one of his
stories' reference to "Atom Bombs"... he got them off his back by
referring them to a much older (1932?) story with the same
ideas... I recommend his first novel in the "Humanoid" Series...
I think it was called "With Folded Hands" (what goes awry when you
make the perfect robotic servants whose directives are roughly
those that Asimov is given credit for... "Allow no human to come
to harm"... taking this to the extreme they became a kindler,
gentler version of the Borg or the Berserkers.
We also lost the similarly legendary Roger Zelazny who was a long
time resident of Santa Fe and most famous for his series referred
to as "The Amber Chronicles" I think. Zelazny was also much loved
for the writing workshops he taught in the area.
Steve (S.M.) Stirling is another prolific Santa Fe author. He has
several collaborators who he publishes with, including the well
known name of Anne McCaffrey ("The Ship who Fought). Most of his
works are military SF, Post Apocalyptic and Alternate History. I
enjoy the last the most.
Stephen C. Gould and Laura Mixon are perhaps my favorite "writing
couple"... Stephen's work hit it "big time" when one of his
juvenile novels, "Jumper" was made into a movie (disappointing
result as such endeavors often are) a few years ago. They wrote a
great collaborative novel together for those here interested in
collaborative efforts. Laura is a very powerful Cyberpunk (my
measure of the theme of her work) Author in her own right and
collaborator on an Interactive Storytelling engine (Storytron).
Laura and/or Stephen might even be members of this or the SFX
Discuss list. I hosted them at SFX for a "blender" on interactive
storytelling a few years ago.
Walter Jon Williamson is another of my favorites... His work
touches on Cyberpunk (HardWired in particular) but manages to be
very highbrow technically despite the lowbrow tropes such as
"Space Opera". I haven't seen anything from him lately, but I'm
sure he's still working...
Other SF names from the immediate are that might also be
recognized include: Fred Saberhagen, Sage Walker, Patty Nagel,
Sally Gwylan ...
And of course, there is the ever-famous annual SF Confention in
Albuquerque called the "Bubonicon" after the unfortunate disease,
"Bubonic Plague".
Oh, and then of course, we have Doug!
- Steve
A colleague came up today with a book from George R.R. Martin.
They say he is the American Tolkien, so I decided to read one of
his books, 'Game of Thrones'. Has someone actually met him? He
lives in Santa Fe and seems to be cool.
-J.
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