There are other solutions than what Lemmy posted, including corporate sponsorship and private financial support for the arts; ideally the government could clean up the process for non-profit art organizations to take tax-deductible donations. Authors (extreme exceptions like Stephen King notwithstanding) aren't losing significant portions of their income from piracy - book piracy doesn't have anything like the demand/user base of MP3 or software piracy.
Disclosure: I am one of the authors of the letter posted on Speculations opposing Ellison's position. I also run Speculon, an internet science fiction publication that pays authors professional rates and provides fiction to the readers without charge.
If I recall right (and I'm certainly no expert), a 727's wings sitting on landing gear are somewhere around 18 feet off the ground. Not a real easily jumpable distance, but not one to cause fatal injury, either. And for their water-mounts, a great diving platform.
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I read Ender's Shadow in prepub copy, (it's good to have friends in bookstores) and in it, OSC said he intended to write yet another parallel novel based on Peter. I just hope it's better than this one - Shadow had way too much parallelism between Bean's story and Ender's, far beyond what was necessary to unify it with Ender's Game. I really liked the first bit, with Bean on the streets, but once they got to Battle School it kinda fell flat.
"Sometimes David kills Goliath, and people never forget. But there were a lot of little guys Goliath had already mashed into the ground." --Orson Scott Card, _Ender's Shadow_
Unfortunately, Card's got too many little guys beating Goliaths at once now. If CNN is right and this thing wins the Hugo & Nebula, I'll be disappointed, cause there are much better books out there.
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Disclosure: I am one of the authors of the letter posted on Speculations opposing Ellison's position. I also run Speculon, an internet science fiction publication that pays authors professional rates and provides fiction to the readers without charge.
If I recall right (and I'm certainly no expert), a 727's wings sitting on landing gear are somewhere around 18 feet off the ground. Not a real easily jumpable distance, but not one to cause fatal injury, either. And for their water-mounts, a great diving platform.
I read Ender's Shadow in prepub copy, (it's good to have friends in bookstores) and in it, OSC said he intended to write yet another parallel novel based on Peter. I just hope it's better than this one - Shadow had way too much parallelism between Bean's story and Ender's, far beyond what was necessary to unify it with Ender's Game. I really liked the first bit, with Bean on the streets, but once they got to Battle School it kinda fell flat.
"Sometimes David kills Goliath, and people never forget. But there were a lot of little guys Goliath had already mashed into the ground."
--Orson Scott Card, _Ender's Shadow_
Unfortunately, Card's got too many little guys beating Goliaths at once now. If CNN is right and this thing wins the Hugo & Nebula, I'll be disappointed, cause there are much better books out there.