[EgoBoo] I just wanted to say...
Feb. 23rd, 2006 02:05 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
seawasp"Amazon.com Sales Rank: #3,216 in Books (See Top Sellers in Books)"
That's what I just got idly checking Amazon on Boundary.
Boundary isn't even RELEASED yet.
Digital Knight peaked (for about one hour or so) at around #2100.
I think this one may make some considerable money. (crosses fingers)
That's what I just got idly checking Amazon on Boundary.
Boundary isn't even RELEASED yet.
Digital Knight peaked (for about one hour or so) at around #2100.
I think this one may make some considerable money. (crosses fingers)
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Date: 2006-02-23 07:23 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-02-23 08:22 pm (UTC)Personally, I can't wait til Boundary comes out =)
Btw :) since you're likely not coming to any cons etc near where I live *grump* ;) any time soon -Any chance I could send you a copy of Digital Knight to get an autograph in it from ye?
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Date: 2006-02-23 08:23 pm (UTC)forgot to sign in
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Date: 2006-02-23 08:28 pm (UTC)*Cough* let me try this again. . . . the *2* anonymous comments were mine (just not signed in correctly
-Cris-
Busy providing comic relief for authors everywhere
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Date: 2006-02-24 12:26 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-02-24 01:27 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-02-24 09:08 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-02-24 09:56 am (UTC)It's okay...
Date: 2006-02-24 02:29 pm (UTC)True, true.
Date: 2006-02-24 02:30 pm (UTC)That's interesting...
Date: 2006-02-24 02:31 pm (UTC)Re: True, true.
Date: 2006-02-24 11:11 pm (UTC)Which reminds me. If you are still running that game, and Ringo doesn't object, it might be fun to send the players on a mission to Georgia. <eg>
Re: That's interesting...
Date: 2006-02-25 12:42 am (UTC)I noticed the same thing, because I had thought they wouldn't ship them until the 7th....
Boundary should be available!
Date: 2006-02-27 03:26 pm (UTC)Well, Amazon says it's available now -- they've shipped some already. Some bookstores have it already. (the "March 7" is NOT what the industry calls a "laydown date" -- a date which, if violated, will cause penalties to accrue to the violator -- so anyone who gets it can put it on sale at once. This is not the case for, say, a new Harry Potter novel, which has a strictly set laydown date.)
I really enjoyed Digital Knight, so I was excited to see a new book with your name on the cover.
Did you read "Diamonds Are Forever", which was in the Baen collection Mountain Magic? That one's 95% mine, also.
(I've lurked on the Bar since 2000 or 2001, but can't seem to find a review I wrote for it some time ago that you responded to. Ah, well).
As far as I can tell, the Bar doesn't keep things for more than a month or two on average. If you want a review that lasts forever, it's best put either on your own site, if lots of people go there, or on Amazon or something like that where it stays with the book as long as it's listed.
So how many planned sequels are there for Boundary? At least two? More? (I hope!)
Eric and I are contracted for two sequels. It could easily go on past that if the sales warrant it.
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Date: 2006-02-28 03:40 am (UTC)I enjoyed the story very very much. I read it all in one sitting. :)
Thanks very much!
Date: 2006-03-01 10:33 pm (UTC)Re: Thanks very much!
Date: 2006-03-02 12:30 am (UTC)BTW... who was it the Bemmies were fighting... themselves? Wouldn't encounters between groups of Bemmies be really rare because of the slow transit time between stars? They'd both have to be "passing through" so to speak.
The desc of the Phobos Bemmie base made it sound like they may have had artificial gravity... doors that meet the floor, pools, conference rooms with chairs, the room outside the armory with the low wall... a lot of that stuff makes a lot more sense under a decent amount of gravity. (I also don't know that Phobos wasn't attached to a tether and spun like a bucket on a rope either). But if they've got inertial thrusters, artificial gravity doesn't seem like too far of a stretch.
What were they doing here in the FIRST place? Despite yerterday's Bemmie city's being tomorrow's interesting hole in the ground, it doesn't seem like they settled in Sol system very heavily. Earth is too rich a target not to exploit, but there's no trace of their presence here other than the fossil. It's like they showed up and "camped" around the solar system, till the park ranger showed up and shooed them all away. The Sol-Bemmies must have surrendered to the invader Bemmies, and got to leave their museum as part of the bargain?
I'm guessing that most of these are going to be answered in upcoming books. :)
Re: Thanks very much!
Date: 2006-03-02 02:11 am (UTC)As to the encounters and what they were doing here, let me just give one interesting quote that will occur somewhere in the next book:
"But I thought you'd come to the conclusion they didn't HAVE FTL yourself, A.J."
The sensor specialist shrugged. "I was tired and not thinking particularly straight. The combination of having succeeded in decoding the disc itself, and then finding that it didn't, in fact, immediately let us translate all that stuff because it made assumptions about who was reading it... I was depressed. If they actually DID have a reactionless drive, that sodomizes Newton and Einstein so thoroughly that I absolutely refuse to believe FTL isn't possible. Maybe they missed it -- though I doubt that -- but if they did, we sure as hell won't."
As for what they were doing here, it may be years, or never, before the characters get all those answers. Eric and I know what happened, of course.
Re: Boundary should be available!
Date: 2006-03-02 02:12 am (UTC)Oh, really? Which things were those? There's so little that's new in any sense that I'm always interested to see what gets seen as new! :)
Go forth and Review!
Date: 2006-03-02 02:14 am (UTC)Oh, missed the one comment...
Date: 2006-03-02 02:16 am (UTC)Of course you can mail me a copy for autographing (along with suggested text to accompany the autograph). Include a SASE if you can.
My address:
Ryk E. Spoor
3 Glenwood Road
Troy, NY 12180
Re: Go forth and Review!
Date: 2006-03-02 02:44 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-03-02 06:58 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-03-03 04:53 am (UTC)*Grin* Ah good an address :) I'll go ahead and send in my (rather beaten up) copy -soon as I get through the next few days . . . *Whee* 2 Improv performances this weekend :). One thing that Ive noticed and find rather "interesting" quite a few of my favorite authors are all 'friended' to each other *g*.
-Cris-
Re: Go forth and Review!
Date: 2006-03-03 05:23 pm (UTC)Yes indeed.
Date: 2006-03-03 05:25 pm (UTC)Most SF/F authors...
Date: 2006-03-03 05:27 pm (UTC)Re: Thanks very much!
Date: 2006-03-06 09:41 am (UTC)"Target" could very be "outpost" or other terms to designate a Bemmie community or facility, the station on Phobos a "high watch" security station maintaining security in the system either prior to or after an initial attack by parties unknown. Or for that matter, a transit station to move from intra/interplanetary travel craft and orbit-to/from-planet landers. Note that the Phobos station was also hit by similar means, but they obviously knew about Target 37. If they were indeed on opposites sides of a conflict and having the high ground, 37 would be toast. Which leads to the conclusion that Phobos and 37 were not on opposite sides. However, as an underground storage facilty it may have been overlooked in a conflict by outside parties.
I bought the book on Saturday and just finished tonight (Sunday), so obviously I didn't find it TOO interesting, seeing as I took time to go to my girl's 2 basketball games, 2 softball practices, and violin lessons in between buying and finishing the book (and spend time with my wife - funny how they want your attention). But that being said, an excellent read! I would look forward to another book in this universe.
Re: Thanks very much!
Date: 2006-03-06 06:35 pm (UTC)Actually, there IS some discussion on this topic, but apparently not enough if you didn't spot it (I'll add more on this in the sequel). The design of the bases -- handles, doors, etc. -- all point extremely strongly to the same species having designed and lived in those bases. A Bemmie was also found both in the Vault and inside the Phobos base.
"Target" could very be "outpost" or other terms to designate a Bemmie community or facility, the station on Phobos a "high watch" security station maintaining security in the system either prior to or after an initial attack by parties unknown. Or for that matter, a transit station to move from intra/interplanetary travel craft and orbit-to/from-planet landers. Note that the Phobos station was also hit by similar means, but they obviously knew about Target 37. If they were indeed on opposites sides of a conflict and having the high ground, 37 would be toast.
Well, if Target 37 had no allies elsewhere in the system, yes, eventually. But something smashed Phobos. There's no reason that a ground target couldn't defend itself from a space bombardment for some number of exchanges; if something creams the high-ground station before it gets through your defenses, you're golden. Again, there are indications in the text -- though apparently not enough -- that there were installations in other areas of the solar system. So if both sides had some high and low ground, it basically comes down to who did the most smashing and who the last BEM standing was.
I bought the book on Saturday and just finished tonight (Sunday), so obviously I didn't find it TOO interesting, seeing as I took time to go to my girl's 2 basketball games, 2 softball practices, and violin lessons in between buying and finishing the book (and spend time with my wife - funny how they want your attention). But that being said, an excellent read! I would look forward to another book in this universe.
Thanks again, and you will see at least TWO more in this universe, as that is what Eric and I are contracted for. :)
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