sandramcdonald (![[info]](http://p-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif){kind=small} sandramcdonald) wrote,@ 2008-05-02 09:56:00 |
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Novik Without Dragons
John Joseph Adams emailed to say his brief interview with me is live at SCI FI Wire. Thanks, JJA!
Steve Nagy reviewed THE STARS DOWN UNDER here and THE OUTBACK STARS here, with the tagline "Naomi Novik Without Dragons." I love that! Thank you, Steve.
otterevil reviews THE STARS DOWN UNDER here, with a user icon I adore. Thanks, Evil!
This week's reading includes THE TRAVELER'S GIFT, one of those uplifting shmaltzy New Age books that you buy in airport gift shops for the business people in your life, or give to your business boss at Christmas because you can't think of anything better. (I once gave one of my Hollywood bosses "Leadership Secrets of Atilla the Hun." He's now one of the producers of Desperate Housewives.) The only part I really liked was about having a "decided heart," which I think every author needs when scrabbling to hang in there in the publishing world. Or every slightly out-of-shape sorta-past-thirty-five (I only celebrate anniveraries now) needs when her trainer makes her do mountain climbers, which should be banned by the Geneva convention.
Also reading the Asimov's 30th Anniversary Anthology, which I picked up in the bookroom at ICFA and made Jim Kelly and Sheila WIlliams autograph. I'm a huge fan of Jonathan Lethem and was properly creeped out by the first half of "The Happy Man," though the last half not so much. It only took a few lines for me to recognize John Varley's "Air Raid" as the basis for the Kris Kristofferson/Cheryl Ladd movie "Millenium," which is the best Kristofferson/Ladd movie ever made. Varley's story is brilliant. Stephen Baxter's "The Children of Time" was good if not exactly my cup of tea; I'm in the middle of Lucius Sheppard's "Only Partly Here" and adoring it, but had to stop to put Grant in time-out for jumping on and try to wrestle Leia. He thinks that by meowing his little feline heart out he'll cut his sentence halved, but he's wrong.
John Joseph Adams emailed to say his brief interview with me is live at SCI FI Wire. Thanks, JJA!
Steve Nagy reviewed THE STARS DOWN UNDER here and THE OUTBACK STARS here, with the tagline "Naomi Novik Without Dragons." I love that! Thank you, Steve.
otterevil reviews THE STARS DOWN UNDER here, with a user icon I adore. Thanks, Evil! This week's reading includes THE TRAVELER'S GIFT, one of those uplifting shmaltzy New Age books that you buy in airport gift shops for the business people in your life, or give to your business boss at Christmas because you can't think of anything better. (I once gave one of my Hollywood bosses "Leadership Secrets of Atilla the Hun." He's now one of the producers of Desperate Housewives.) The only part I really liked was about having a "decided heart," which I think every author needs when scrabbling to hang in there in the publishing world. Or every slightly out-of-shape sorta-past-thirty-five (I only celebrate anniveraries now) needs when her trainer makes her do mountain climbers, which should be banned by the Geneva convention.
Also reading the Asimov's 30th Anniversary Anthology, which I picked up in the bookroom at ICFA and made Jim Kelly and Sheila WIlliams autograph. I'm a huge fan of Jonathan Lethem and was properly creeped out by the first half of "The Happy Man," though the last half not so much. It only took a few lines for me to recognize John Varley's "Air Raid" as the basis for the Kris Kristofferson/Cheryl Ladd movie "Millenium," which is the best Kristofferson/Ladd movie ever made. Varley's story is brilliant. Stephen Baxter's "The Children of Time" was good if not exactly my cup of tea; I'm in the middle of Lucius Sheppard's "Only Partly Here" and adoring it, but had to stop to put Grant in time-out for jumping on and try to wrestle Leia. He thinks that by meowing his little feline heart out he'll cut his sentence halved, but he's wrong.
