Subscription to Shadowmarch makes a lot of sense for a new paradigm. I'm a big King fan and I DID do the "show up at the bookstore every month on the 28th" game with his Green Mile. (He says he had no idea how that would end, just like your Shadowmarch! I was afraid it wouldn't be good for that reason, but the ending was dynamite.)
However, King's process for Ride the Bullet was just too complicated even for a reasonably computer-savvy major fan. You had to download the reading software, and I tried, but not only did it never download for me but also they charged my credit card anyway! Then you had to pay every month for a new installment to download.... they are saying people did it but then didn't read them. I guess it just wasn't enough like a book. We wanted a book.
If Shadowmarch is a passworded pay Web site, like Stratfor.com, I can deal with that. I've already done it, I know how, and the technology is robust, unlike that reader software that would not download and also is new to me.
So good luck! I'll be supporting it. Also, congratulations on your new Otherland volume, which is supposed to be on my porch right now, according to the UPS tracking.
Shebe
Sure ---- science always follows art, namely science fiction books and movies. Probably because scientists read a lot of science fiction. Actually the search for the killer asteroid with the iridium layers followed the animated movie Fantasia. A lot of budding scientists were traumatized by the staggering dinosaurs dying in a suddenly hot, flaming world. They went out to "prove' it.
This got a -1 for flamebait because it attracts the anti-anti-Americans? I guess so. Who is this Malcolm Bradbury? Never heard of him. (Don't tell me, please.)
MacLeod and Banks are read by some people (not me yet) but the real action in scifi is in America, of course: Neal Stephenson, Wm. Gibson, Tad Williams.
There isn't much worthwhile scifi outside the U.S. Robert Sawyer writes Canadian scifi, and it would be okay except for the gratuitous, plot-free meandering off into anti-Americanism.
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Looking Backward showed a semi-communal society that lived in separate houses but ate communally. I sometimes think he got that right ---- we are dependent on restaurants now. And Bellamy's eating houses were like restaurants --- you had the same waiters you were used to and people knew your preferences.
C.S. Lewis wrote theological fiction. Like Hitchhiker, but not so funny. The relationship of God to man. I remember when I first started reading Out of the Silent Planet (first in the Perelandra trilogy) I stood up out of the chair, I was so astonished at the trick he was playing: it was supposed to be a scifi, but it was about religion! You don't necessarily realize it for a bunch of pages. A lot of people never figure this out about Hitchhiker, though the last dark book in the five-volume "trilogy" is a big hint.
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Subscription to Shadowmarch makes a lot of sense for a new paradigm. I'm a big King fan and I DID do the "show up at the bookstore every month on the 28th" game with his Green Mile. (He says he had no idea how that would end, just like your Shadowmarch! I was afraid it wouldn't be good for that reason, but the ending was dynamite.) However, King's process for Ride the Bullet was just too complicated even for a reasonably computer-savvy major fan. You had to download the reading software, and I tried, but not only did it never download for me but also they charged my credit card anyway! Then you had to pay every month for a new installment to download.... they are saying people did it but then didn't read them. I guess it just wasn't enough like a book. We wanted a book. If Shadowmarch is a passworded pay Web site, like Stratfor.com, I can deal with that. I've already done it, I know how, and the technology is robust, unlike that reader software that would not download and also is new to me. So good luck! I'll be supporting it. Also, congratulations on your new Otherland volume, which is supposed to be on my porch right now, according to the UPS tracking. Shebe
Sure ---- science always follows art, namely science fiction books and movies. Probably because scientists read a lot of science fiction. Actually the search for the killer asteroid with the iridium layers followed the animated movie Fantasia. A lot of budding scientists were traumatized by the staggering dinosaurs dying in a suddenly hot, flaming world. They went out to "prove' it.
This got a -1 for flamebait because it attracts the anti-anti-Americans? I guess so. Who is this Malcolm Bradbury? Never heard of him. (Don't tell me, please.) MacLeod and Banks are read by some people (not me yet) but the real action in scifi is in America, of course: Neal Stephenson, Wm. Gibson, Tad Williams. There isn't much worthwhile scifi outside the U.S. Robert Sawyer writes Canadian scifi, and it would be okay except for the gratuitous, plot-free meandering off into anti-Americanism.
Looking Backward showed a semi-communal society that lived in separate houses but ate communally. I sometimes think he got that right ---- we are dependent on restaurants now. And Bellamy's eating houses were like restaurants --- you had the same waiters you were used to and people knew your preferences. C.S. Lewis wrote theological fiction. Like Hitchhiker, but not so funny. The relationship of God to man. I remember when I first started reading Out of the Silent Planet (first in the Perelandra trilogy) I stood up out of the chair, I was so astonished at the trick he was playing: it was supposed to be a scifi, but it was about religion! You don't necessarily realize it for a bunch of pages. A lot of people never figure this out about Hitchhiker, though the last dark book in the five-volume "trilogy" is a big hint.