Feel free to introduce yourselves or just to wave hello. I may have to stamp another approval on your first post (we’re in a software change, so I’m not sure) but wait if it doesn’t show up. I’ll fix it.
We’re kind of in transition, and some of us have met face to face, but we’re all nice folk, and polite. Post away if the mood takes you.
Alas, Mr. Testosteroneforcheap.com didn’t make the cut. He and a number of others did not get approved.
If you are WAITING for approval, it can’t happen until you write to me (addy is up there ^) and ask…this is our way of keeping such wonderful offers at bay.
Your “Mr. Testosteroneforcheap” reminded me of a couple of jocks in high school my BFF and I used to refer to as the “Testosterony brothers” They were not, in fact, brothers, but they were both quite large, both on the football team and into weight lifting and were otherwise very chest thumpy and muscle flexy. We were pretty radical for the times, my BFF and I, considering this was 1960’s TX and the whole Friday Night Lights thing. Go to football games on Friday nights? Nope. We’d rather stay home and watch Star Trek.
I draw the line at enlarging body parts I don’t have, and am OK enough with not enlarging the parts I do have. New eyes and teeth, maybe. Also, those young ladies who are so very friendly and overheated that they want to remove articles of clothing? Um, thanks, I’m sure you’re nice, public-spirited girls, but well, I’d prefer nice young guys. Other people, of course, have other tastes. 🙂
Er, hey, I was born a few months before TOS premiered, but oh, I geeked out to it in reruns just fine. — You would’ve found me saving up my allowance to buy the novelizations from James Blish and Alan Dean Foster, or something by Andre Norton or Heinlein or a few others. — Then in college, a friend loaned me two books by some author named Cherryh. (Downbelow Station and Pride of Chanur each got a solid weekend of reading. No roommate was bothered either time, not present.) I was, however, hooked on Cherryh novels ever after.
There is nothing like losing yourself in a story, right there alongside the heroes and villains and ordinary folks. (Aliens, dragons, starships, etc. add to it greatly.)
Welcome, new folks!
The Morgaine Trilogy was my gateway drug, followed by the Faded Sun trilogy. My BFF read the Faded Sun trilogy with no idea of the chronological order and ended up reading them in reverse order. She said it was a very surreal read.
I broke my ankle a week ago (life in the Pacific Nortwest! The sun comes out and we go beserk with overly enthusiastic hiking.) I’ve been depressed the last couple of days with the immobility and my husband, in an effort to cheer me up said, ” Doesn’t CJ Cherryh publish a novel this time of the year?” I was ahead of him; it arrived today, so before I settle myself down for a good read, I thought I’d say thank you.
A broken ankle is a bum start to the summer! I hope the book at least provides some distraction.
I broke mine almost exactly 2 years ago (two breaks and ligament tears). Good news, I’m pretty much 100% recovered. Maybe a little loss of flexibility. Bad-ish news, you have to be patient and do rehab as soon as you are cleared for it. It really does take a year to “get over it”. Good luck with your recovery!
I’ve been able to avoid significant surgeries myself, but have observed in others that it takes a year for a complete recovery also. 80-90% may come rather quickly, the last bit takes the “fullness” of time.
I was 10 or 11 when I picked up my first Cherryh book (Tripoint, I think). I found it enchanting, and went looking for more books with her name on the cover. Found a couple other A/U books, and then picked Foreigner and Invader up (together, by accident- I didn’t even realize they were related at the time. In my adolescent enthusiasm, I picked them up because I liked the cover art).
Nowadays, my spouse just nods when I say I’ve ordered another Cherryh book, and sighs whenever I say “Oh look! I found hardcovers for these Foreigner books that I don’t have in HC yet!” 😛 (Yes, I am actually accumulating multiple copies of books now…)
I’d buy more of the other books, but between us, I’m pretty sure we have almost everything CJ has published. 😛
I started out reading Foreigner in the dead tree editions, but have replaced them all with hard backs as PBs don’t hold up to multiple rereads quite as well. That’s how books in my library become “keepers” — they get replaced with their hardback editions because they will be reread many times.
I have a copy of nearly every book, too. I aim for one hardback, one paperback and one to share. It used to be a hobby, before used books were on the internet, to explore used book stores searching for the ones I didn’t have. With the advent of the internet, the thrill of the search is gone, so now I look for a thrill of introducing someone to CJ’s work.
Hi :). I have been lurking on here for a very long time and thought it was time to say hello! Been a huge fan for many years, found a used copy of Port Eternity in a book store when I was in my late teens and haven’t stopped reading her since. I am a dog trainer and groomer by day, and a video game and movie addict by night.
It was probably a good thing I changed my username from Ms. Testosteroneforcheap 😉
Lol! Welcome in!
Like annmariet, I’ve been lurking too. We have weather in the mid 70s here (above New Orleans), so everyone is gardening. My online college students go into final exams next week, and my classroom college students do theirs 1st week of May. I go in for 2nd knee replacement 2nd week of May, hoping to be recovered in time for August classes. I can quickly gauge my students who are scifi vs. fanstasy fans (they are often confused) by which Cherryh novels they recognize.
Wish you best of outcomes with the surgery! And welcome!
Hmmm, I wonder if I can get some of that Testosteroneforcheap? At my age, not much left. 🙂 IAC, I mostly lurk here, but do every once in a long while post something just to prove I’m alive.
CJ – Loved Convergence, but it definitely left me wanting MORE. FASTER. 😉 Yeah, I know, I have to wait another year. But patience has never been my strong point.
I hated to break it, but if I hadn’t, I’d have had one year with no income. I picked a spot that at least had SOME stop-ability. If I’d carried it one more chapter before breaking, you’d have Filed Intent…
Oh, I understand the need to actually release a book in order to get paid! BTDT. And it wasn’t a bad place. Just one that left me very much wanting more. Full disclosure: Even if you’d combined this book and the next into a single volume, I’d still have wanted more. I get totally engrossed in the Atevi world when I read your books, and I don’t want to leave it. Only the Liaden Universe books have the same impact on me, though in a somewhat different way.
Another Liaden reader here.
This reminded me I had a Liaden universe ebook for Kindle, but hadn’t read it. That lead to finding the first book in the series, which is now also waiting to be read. Heheh, thank you all for feeding my reading addiction! 😀
Happy to oblige with your addiction problem, BlueCatShip. 🙂
For anyone else, there are multiple “entry points” to the Liaden Universe. Unlike CJ’s Foreigner series, this is not really a series, though there are certainly books that are best read in a particular order. One way to approach them is publication order. I actually do not recommend a purely chronological order, since the first two books chronologically are really prequels and are better appreciated after you’ve read a couple of the other books.
Yeah I didn’t like the break but “author needs to get paid” is a perfectly acceptable reason. We gave up on the self-employment thing a few years back because we liked getting paid regularly more than we liked being our own bosses. I’ll just do my part by buying a hardcover, ebook and audiobook because I have poor impulse control when it comes to certain characters.
Finished Convergencer. Wonderful. Much too short. Well, if Cajeiri can learn patience then I guess I can wait another year.
Well worth the price of admission.
Jonathan up in New Hampshire
Finished Convergence tonight and loved it. It actually appeared in my Kobo account on the release date, but it has been tax season so my reading has been somewhat curtailed. Next to read is Elizabeth Moon’s Cold Welcome, the first book in a new Ky Vatta trilogy. I finally got around to reading the Vatta’s War books last summer and have really been looking forward to her newest. The new Liaden Universe book doesn’t come out until May 2nd, so I’ll be ready for that one by then. I jumped into the Liaden Universe with Fledgling, then immediately started reading everything I could find by Lee & Miller.
Decided it was time to stop lurking and associate! They haven’t made Gravitars any easier to change in the last three years I’m sorry to see.
Welcome!
Frequent lurker, only posted a couple of times. Picked up Foreigner right before finals in college…Big mistake!! Ordered the whole series that weekend. I did finally graduate…In spite of myself. I live on the other side of Washington in a city called Bellingham. My 70something mother and 3 cats share my abode. I call her Mani-ma at times and we love the Foreigner universe. She has also read the Union Alliance and Morgaine books and we have both read the other fantasy series by CJ that I am drawing a complete blank on. Was in a MVA and ended up with a TBI so my memory has that to contend with as well as aging. Somewhere on this blog was talk of another Shedjicon but for the life of me I can’t find that thread…
Morgaine…
Hello to all of you. I thought I should finally post something here considering I’ve been lurking since the inception of WWAS and followed CJ’s blog for a number of years before that. As for my interests, I’ve been doing genealogy for 45 years, reading CJ’s books since the first of the Mri wars books was published and playing in the SCA for 35 years. Oh, and I live in the Sacramento Valley where we are trying to figure out how to cope with a state that’s actually green, not brown. ;>)
There are other things as well, but that will do for going forward.
Welcome!