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I will answer questions about pronunciation, etc, all the little questions I’m normally asked. I won’t discuss things that disturb my creative process, like where I’m going or such. You can theorize among yourselves.
Hello. I thought Regenesis was really good. Will there be a follow up book? Some parts of the story left me asking for more. Thanks.
I intend to do one set immediately after. I’m hoping not to take another 20 years to get to it, too! Actually, I have an unfilled 3-book contract with DAW, and I know they’d like one of those books to be the Regenesis follower.
I like this (you having a unfilled contract to finish). While the eBooks are the wave of the future, I’m glad you have paper publishing advances to pay the mortgage.
– S
Any idea what the other two books will be?
First I’ve got to get Bren out of his current pot of deep kim chee…
Rusalka series question:
This probably all metaphysically a “what is life” type question… but what IS under the willow tree at the end of the Rusalka series? In other words, is Eveshka actually alive, or is she as much a ghost-wish as the false Eveshka? Or is this one of the things for philosophers to argue over? And what exactly happened at the end of the series?
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Y’know, it’s so long ago since I wrote that book, I’m going to have to find out.
I always try to forget books so I can re-read them. Evidently it works on books I wrote, too. 😉
There is a famous story, perhaps true, about the poet Browning being accosted at a reading by a young admirer what a line from one his earlier poems meant.
Supposedly the great man replied: “Young man, when I wrote that line only God and Browning understood its meaning. Now, only God does!” Or words to that effect.
One time an editor and I chatted at lunch (company cafeteria) about an interesting article each of us had recently read. After I returned to my desk I realized that I had written the article and he had edited it! You can imagine the amount of copy each of us was processing about then, but still…
So I can sympathize.
true, true 😆
The Browning story reminds me about an anecdote told in Boswell’s Life of Johnson about the poet, playwright and novelist Oliver Goldsmith.
“Chamier once asked him [Goldsmith], what he meant by slow, the last word in the first line of The Traveller,
“Remote, unfriended, melancholy, slow.”
Did he mean tardiness of locomotion? Goldsmith, who would say something without consideration, answered, “Yes.” I {Johnson] was sitting by, and said, “No, Sir; you do not mean tardiness of locomotion; you mean, that sluggishness of mind which comes upon a man in solitude.” Chamier believed then that I had written the line as much as if he had seen me write it. … [Goldsmith] transplanted knowledge from one place in his mind to another; and it did not settle; so he could not tell
what was in his own books.'”
Marion Zimmer Bradley told one about herself and Andre Norton. Marion admired a certain scene of Andre’s greatly…and held it up as a great example. She chanced to speak to Andre on a certain occasion, and Andre said, no, there was no such scene in any of her books.
Marion then realized she must have imagined the scene in question, and resolved to find some occasion to use it herself.
Posterity does not record which scene it was.
Hi
I loved Tripoint, but there a few unresolved plot issues with Capella’s cryptic “That’s how we found them” and “More of those, where we’re going”
Is there any likelihood of a sequel that wraps up the split in the Fleet?
I’d like to. About that time, Warner was going crazy on me, and so was Ballantine—I veered another direction and never got back to it. Now neither publisher exists as it once was.
So, do you remember where the Corinthian went after it left the Tripoint gravitational region? You had said earlier that you’d have to look it up . . .
sor-ta. 😆 Seriously I have a star map (16 layers of glass with dots) which represent actual stars in depth of field, and I kinda know, as I know where Tripoint is.
Well, I think it’s somewhere near Eversnow.
So that’s how you do it. Neat idea! I was wondering how you,as a non-astronomer (unlike Heinlein), could conceptualize three dimensionally so well.
Especially since when this started you couldn’t even dream of calling up some program on a computer. (Does one such exist now, even?
Actually I got so far into star mapping, I was able to correct my copy of the Americana, which had a wrong conversion equation…I knew I was right, just common-sense relationships, and I was. They were missing a – sign, as I recall.
I tried writing a 3-d stellar navigation program on the old 48 k Atari—hey, if it’s good enough for Pioneer, it oughta work, eh? But the theta just drove me nuts. I’m not a mathematician, but I’m pretty good at geometry.
And I decided dots on glass was just a lot easier than figuring out the theta function. So I got sticky dots from an art supply house (variable as to magnitude) and patiently put it together.
Still a rather cool object. Jane resurrected it this week and put a light behind it. It’s half a foot thick and weighs like lead.
I made a larger one out of plexi, with fewer layers, but this one suffered greatly during a plane trip—a con wanted me to bring it. I think I’ve got the pieces, but I never reassembled it.
I follow astronomy pretty well: backyard observer, and I read, but no formal study. Galactic mapping is my particular interest, and I was interested when they began putting out the computer modeling that it has the same swisscheese appearance as my small-scale galactic slices in glass.
Boy Scout projects is what I call it: I once wanted to get a visual grasp of a 1g accel toward lightspeed, and just left the printer running on a Basic calculation—line a second.
I was delayed on a trip out, and came back to find the box of tractor feed paper empty and my whole desk and the floor round about fairly well buried in output…
No, we’d not gotten there. Less than a third of the way…
Made the point, however.
Well, that’s both of my follow-up questions asked and answered (though, in truth, you’d actually answered them both before, by email). A “Regenesis” follow up would certainly be much appreciated, however I must say that any chance of meeting Capella again would trump even that!
(Especially in view of the wonderful cover illustration: http://tinyurl.com/m29d7c – Phwoar! (grin) )
Still in the A-U universe, the other character I’ve always wanted some follow-up on is Signy Mallory. Trouble is, there’s a problem with “books I’d like to read” vs “time for the author to write them”… 😉
😆 the thing is, I’d love to do that follow-up, but in the world of NY publishing, they do the steering. If this e-book thing works, there may be another option.
Speaking of NY Publishers:
Any word as to when DECEIVER might be due out?
Sorry to bug you about it, but . . . Cajeiri with a sling-shot . . . “one fears for the porcelains” . . .
Lol! No official word, but since I haven’t gotten galleys or the like, I’d say they’re aiming for maybe January 2010 and I’m due to get galleys soon. There’s usually a six month lead time on that.
I take solace in the fact you won’t tell us where Corinthian went…….yet.
Yours in hope
Oh, book questions! =] Here’s my big one:
Are you planning on continuing the Faded Sun series?
Say I know what happens, and if a story ever builds itself around the mri’s passage back through human space,I’ll certainly consider it.
No-one yet has mentioned the Morgaine series of books you wrote so I couldn’t resist.
Gate, Well and Fires all followed on from each other, linked together by the pursuit of Roh and Vanye’s ongoing development. Exile’s Gate however moved much more into Morgaine’s own back story, especially with the confrontation with Skarrin. It left me always wondering where you were going next with it. The ending works very well for the never ending quest premise behind the books but at the same time you were obviously alluding to some fairly fundamental ideas on the gates and their consequence. Were you planning on continuing the story to take those ideas further and if so would you have explored Anjhurin’s time to do so?
I was, and then the world changed. I had a new editor and a new direction the company wanted to take, and it’s worked well, but I would like to revisit that universe.
If you stay in this business long enough you have to change course so many times you leave pieces scattered all over; and if I can make this change in the world work for me, I’d sure like to visit a number of projects again.
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Since we’re going through all the series (seemingly), how about Compact Space?
That’s one I have had some thought about.