tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1484180326012950400.post39826408010264412..comments2024-03-27T23:55:17.673-07:00Comments on Flogging Babel: Early Notes Toward a Nonexistent LexiconMichael Swanwickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18389836784776252022noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1484180326012950400.post-78639140939733520242008-01-02T13:04:00.000-08:002008-01-02T13:04:00.000-08:00Oh I read fantasy, have piles of unread fantasy. I...Oh I read fantasy, have piles of unread fantasy. I even have a fondness for time-traveling triceratops...<BR/><BR/>Heck, I'll even tackle nautical fiction, science, history, cooking.<BR/><BR/>SF just happens to be my first love, is all.Frederick Paul Kiesche IIIhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17503079579685008728noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1484180326012950400.post-74361285123893534132007-12-31T10:30:00.000-08:002007-12-31T10:30:00.000-08:00I particularly admire that you're willing to ventu...I particularly admire that you're willing to venture outside of your preferred genre to try my book. That's the mark of a true reader.<BR/><BR/>I suspect that the not-in-any-bookstore-before-it's-2008 thing is because my editor has an eye on the Hugo ballot. A book that comes out in December has only a few months to gather up enough readers to get nominated, whereas one that comes out in January has an entire year. This sounds (and, what the heck, is) unfair to the December book, but look what correcting that with a rolling eligibility rule did to the Nebulas -- almost all of them are won by works that appeared two years before.<BR/><BR/>Anyway, that's a pretty typical example of the sort of extraliterary decisions that publishing involves.Michael Swanwickhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18389836784776252022noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1484180326012950400.post-25629748742100528802007-12-28T12:28:00.000-08:002007-12-28T12:28:00.000-08:00I spent my day making a list of links regarding di...I spent my day making a list of links regarding diagrams of a book.<BR/><BR/>http://texasbestgrok.mu.nu/archives/250465.php<BR/><BR/>Of course, now I'll have to change the posting! And my bookstore **still** doesn't have any copies, dang it!Frederick Paul Kiesche IIIhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17503079579685008728noreply@blogger.com