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[seawasp]

Fred Kiesche has been kind enough to put in a few words for Grand Central Arena on SF Signal's latest podcast!

Thanks, Fred!

Comments

[ath-winter-lord.livejournal.com]

Nice! :)

(It's at around 07:20 min to 07:55 min, in case anyone else also doesn't want to listen to the whole thing.)

[hms42]

Nice! I just finished reading the book the other day and really enjoyed it. (It took a little while to get started on it for me (and I hit one slow point in reading), but once I got past that point, I was turning pages quickly and enjoying it.

I hope you sell the sequels on the book. I would like to see the response to your ending cliffhanger. :)

[seawasp]

Thanks!

You're the second person to call that a "cliffhanger", which is interesting. To me, it's not at all a cliffhanger, but an obvious closing line, wrapping up what went before. There's obvious "after" implied, but all of the major action of the book has been wrapped up reasonably well and the unanswered questions obviously won't be resolved quickly.

[hms42]

Its also a wonderful starting point for book #2. (Quote back the last chapter/few paragraphs at the beginning of #2. (Maybe a quick summary followed by starting the book off with that line and going for the reaction.)

And, yes, I agree that was an obvious closing line. (It definitely leaves the reader wanting more.) :)

[seawasp]

Book 2 starts, as currently envisioned, with Our Heroes being stared at by the dumbfounded Space Security Council:

The conference room was silent for a long moment. Most of the humans present had incredulous, shell-shocked expressions, something you might expect to see on the face of a normally calm, rational adult who abruptly found themselves sitting at the Mad Tea Party. The silence from the artificial intelligences was, perhaps, even more telling, for some of those present were vastly capable intellects, supposedly capable of thinking at speeds far above human – yet still, apparently, not above being overwhelmed by the impossible.