Did I ever mention the name of the head guy on the Isle of Jorida?
It’s one of those things I meant to do and now am not sure whether I did, and now have lost the note I made of his name.
Right now I m working on the next Bren book while Jane makes another pass through Alliance Unbound. The name of the next Bren book (you heard it here first) is Defiance. 😉
Will the recent Bren books be available on Audible?
So far not that I know of. The only thing that might be effective is letters from customers.
I will get right on it!
As far as I know the last time Audible was mentioned on this site there was some trouble with a contract not being signed or some such. The last two Foreigner novels haven’t been released in audiobook on audible. I have mailed them but they point to the author/publisher. It’s not like there’s a shortage of Cherryh audiobooks, though. Daniel Thomas May has narrated a couple, never before in audio, Cherryh novels in between for Tantor audio (available internationally on physical media): Alliance Space (Merchanter’s Luck and Forty Thousand in Gehenna) and Graphic audio have produced Downbelow Station and Merchanter’s Luck as full cast recordings. I got the audiobook of The Paladin, too. It’s one of my favourites and I’m looking forward to hear it.
Not sure if that means the author needs to contact DAW about contracting more audiobook editions of the Foreigner sequence.
Hi – hope everyone is both safe and sane. I use a program called Amadeus Pro to convert ebooks to text, then I use my iMac to convert the text to an audio file. The iMac voices are not the greatest, but quite listenable. Please not that I do not share these, sell them, or otherwise distribute them – you would have to role your own.
Jonathan up here in New Hampshire
Quite a while ago we got a reply saying they we’re willing but wanted contact from the author!
Took that with a grain of salt. Is audible frontiers , the part that recorded these gone now ?
Comment *C J, glad you are getting better and that you are doing “Defiance”. I have been a fan of yours from the beginning. My house is full of your wonderful stories.
Keep getting better, don’t rush, just enjoy the day at each dawn 🙂
lots of love and hugs
Jean Horn
I found this reference in Resurgence – Hurshina?
Jorida, Machigi meant. The private island empire of Hurshina Shipping, the owner of which had fought tooth and nail against a rail extension south from Najida. God. One thing was not a minor opposition. Hurshina ruled Ashidama Bay and everything that moved down there. Not as a clan lord, but with an economic stranglehold. There were three sizeable cities down there, and Hurshina had agreements with all of them. No
Cherryh, C. J.. Resurgence (Foreigner) (p. 59). DAW. Kindle Edition.
I was checking in Divergence, and there’s no names attached to Jorida there.
And thank you, PJ, for assuring me I didn’t accidentally name him something else in another book– Thank you!
Brenna, bless you, you win the gratitude of yrs truly. I’d have had quite a search for that one. Yes! I knew I could depend on you guys!
Happy to help!
Did a sincere but less athletic version of the happy dance over the new Bren book and the new Alliance book. New Books!
On Dec 15, moved Mom over to the same SNF where she rehabbed. It’s a permanent move, and it’s where she wanted to be. She’s 97. She can’t sustain the level of physical activity needed to live with me. Both of us breathing a sigh of relief. I will move to a 1 BR apartment around the corner after the first of the year. Things looking up home wise, but still facing PET scan in January and the chemo after that.
Wishing all the salads good health, lots of healing, and far, far less stress in the new year than these past 2 years have had.
CJ, you should get a white scooter and name it Siptah . . .
Lol—I’ve acquired a red one and do not know what to call it. It’s not that I can’t walk: for events, shows, cons, etc, I can’t walk those long hotel hallways. We had it out for a field test on the balcony of the Davenport Hotel, for their Christmas tree festival, and it was able to navigate tiny antique elevators and all. I didn’t run over anybody. It was close a couple of times, but no contact. 😉
How about Nova et Vetera (the new and the old 😉), the motto of St. Catherine’s College, Oxford (a popular name for colleges), whose arms are, sable a saltire ermine between four Catherine wheels or.
May I ask if Defiance is fruit of the naming contest we had, well, years ago since it was pre-Covid? And do you have a list you want to use or pick as the story suggests?
I’m a little puzzled by what kind of scooter we’re talking about. Surely not an A-4 Skyhawk! Anyone?
Naw, Have you seen the adult-sized, motorized, childrens scooters being promoted in some of the larger cities? Imaging one of those, even larger, tricycle, with a seat on a post, and a basket on the handlebar.
Pride Travel Pro. I intend to use it not around the house, but when Jane and I want to go to an exhibit or play, something that requires a deal of walking. I’m still not good at lengthy hikes. I can do it. But I’m worthless for a while after, and not in a mood to look at exhibits.
Right, take care of yourself so you can spend your energy on enjoying things!
Thanks for the name, I could look it up and figure what the word scooter means in your area. The most likely suspect, it was.
Over here it used to mean the kind of light motorised Vespa-type moped ms.Hepburn was riding around on in “Roman Holiday”. I’ve also seen it used for the kind of short plank on two small wheels with a tall handlebar that you stand on and propel with one foot, or by wobbling, or with a small electric motor – that word ‘scooter’ is used for too many things to be clear to me without a picture!
I have a tendency to name everything.
I called my bright red 4RUNNER the Red Rabbit after the pink Energigizer bunny, because it kept going…and going…and going… Finally had to let it go when the body quite literally fell apart. Now my dark blue Forrester is called The Blue Rider.
My kilns are Big Red Mama and Little Sister. ðŸ¤
Comment – Mobility … Way back in the 50’s the Eagle comic’s scifi hero, Dan Dare, had an enemy, the Venusian Mekon, who had a little anti-grav buggy that was very fast and had brilliant handling. From what I remember, it had no carbon emissions eiher. Isn’t it time Elon Musk and Silicon Valley came up with something useful like that?
When I got a large red sedan, I called her ‘Miss Lipstick’. The Smart was Bug-gatti. When/if I finish painting and otherwise decorating this new one, she’ll be The White Rabbit’.
I have a dark blue Fit which I dubbed the shuttlepod, after the Star Trek shuttles (it does resemble TNG shuttlecraft). Currently we are awake at oh-dark-thirty because our new Tesla is arriving on the barge this morning and DH is very wired about it. The Tesla will undoubtedly let us know what its name is, not unlike a cat.
Somewhere I saw a picture of a minimalist minivan with shuttlecraft markings painted on. It looked pretty good.
Congrats on the Tesla ! We got a Model 3 last summer, and love it.
A very good new year to all associates here!
My blue Peugeot 206 is named “Flinke Blauwe” = Big/Brave Blue, as it has the letters FL-BL in its numberplate and was a size up from its predecessors, a Peugeot 205.
I’ve been wondering if CJs red scooter is like the electric scootmobiles we see zooming around in the mall and on the cyclepaths ; or more like the simple wheeled walkers with a place to sit and rest that we call ‘rollators’, for use in more constrained indoors environments, and short walks outside.
Or something else entirely?
Similar scooters are available in this country.
The worst part about PET scans is *not moving* while you get scanned (mine took like 40 minutes: my shoulders had Things To Say). They use stuff with F-18 in it – half life of 110 minutes – so you might actually glow a little in the dark. (Output the first couple of hours can definitely be “hot”.)
WOL, glad to hear that you’ve come to a solution that pleases and works for both of you. May you have a peaceful and relaxed Christmas… and a healthy New Year.
Merry Christmas! (It being Christmas day in Oz, at least.)
Happy Christmas, all!
Wish all my salads a Joyful, Peaceful, and Merry Christmas!
Merry Christmas to all who celebrate it and a Happy New Year! It’s super icy & slick (freezing rain during the night) outside of Boston, Massachusetts. My spouse and I are staying put at home. We were reluctantly planning to give family a pass on visiting anyways because a colleague of mine I had semi-close contact with (she was masked; I was eating lunch & unmasked when we chatted) went home from work on Wednesday after testing positive for COVID. My initial rapid test came back negative and I feel fine (triple-vaxxed at this point as was she) but not taking chances yet with my family as my mother has only 1 J§J shot to date. We’ll see what the second half of the rapid COVID home test brings later today. Be well, folks!
Happy holidays all my salads! My in-laws have moved into their new house here and the furniture has been delivered. The family is getting ready for a Christmas dinner and I’m taking a break from preparing Cornish Hens.
All your salads “dressed up in winter clothes”? I think I’d prefer a Honey-Mustard, or Italian!
We’re due for a week below freezing, and into the mid-teens. I’m just hoping it comes with a nice blanket of insulating snow so my garden containers don’t freeze out!
Ye befeathered gods. Trying to buy a mower from Craigslist because the library’s mower joined the choir eternal. Spent half an hour trying to find the guy’s place; swear he’s flakier than a croissant. Hopefully we actually are getting a legit (not stolen) mower.
I see PanSTARRS alerted to a red giant that has been observed going Type II Supernova right through the event, or at least the arrival of the wavefront, rather than years in the past. Should get a “gold star” in the role-book for that.
Oohh! I’ll have to bug our tame astrophysicist about that; J.D. actually supervises students and interns doing research on PANSTARRS data. He’s in charge of it as a primary source.
One presumes the general announcement was recent. I saw it here: https://www.cnn.com/2022/01/06/world/red-supergiant-star-supernova-scn/index.html
Presumably it all did take some time to develop.
Love the description!
Well, I found out why the guy was selling the mower for $30. The height adjustment had broken, and it was on the dirt-scalping lowest setting. The janitor bodged a workaround by putting the wheels from the deceased mower on the ‘new’ one, which raised the deck height a couple of inches.
Hanneke—”Scooter” has the sense in English (as you’ve probably figured out) of something relatively light/small that moves quickly. All the vehicles you describe & CJ’s are indeed scooters of sorts. Also, a small child that dashes about in unexpected directions is scooting and therefore could be described as a “scooter.”