An intriguing article in the New York Times today about
Otlet's Mundaneum, a 19th century steampunk version of the world wide web. Does this make up for failing to feed and water my blog for the last month? No, I thought not. Oh well. Still a fun article.
8 comments:
Forget the blog. All is forgiven when the next book comes out. :-) Oh, and make sure it's available on the Kindle.
Thanks! That's very kind! And, yes, believe pretty much everything (my stuff included) is available on kindle these days....
mm, great article! I've been thinking about card catalogs lately. And looking forward to your next book, whenever it arrives!
is there any way to get some explanation to some of the main topics in your novels? I'm well into Spin Control, and am still having trouble keeping basic themes (genetic contructs, post-humans, pre/post breakaway, etc.) straight. I'm as confused as Arkady. Is there any place to find definitions? Otherwise - excellent read, both of 'em!
I originally just wanted to say I loved Spin Control, but reading the last couple of comments I must add -- indeed I read it on the Kindle!!!
Hi! I note that this is an old post, but just wanted to say that I loved your books; I've recommended them several times and given them as gifts more than once. I didn't know you were doing a blog -- I'd seen your other website a while ago and enjoyed your comments about SF. It is satisfying to me that most spec-fic authors tend to be very well read in their genre, and have lots of very interesting things to say about it, as well as always excellent recommendations. (I've worked my way through some of your lists, China Mieville's lists, Hal Duncan's lists, etc.) Thanks for your thoughts on this blog and wherever you put them down.
Hello, my name is Raquel and I am going to be the Spanish translator of your book "Spin State". I have been researching a bit on the net, and I have found your website content very much interesting. Still, I would really like to get to know you/your work better for this upcoming project I will be working in for the next few months. I imagine you are busy at the moment, because your blog is not updated... so I would like to find another way of contacting you. What do you think? I am sure we could interchange many interesting views on the subject, and for me it would be very enriching to talk to the person who's actually written the story I will be translating.
Thank you for your time, and hope to hear from you soon!!
P.S. If somebody else reads this and can be of any help on the SF subject, I will be very much grateful :-)
Take care!
Ms. Moriarty, you are on the verge of becoming my second favorite science fiction author. My first favorite didn't even make your list, about eighty percent of which are authors that I've either read or mean to read. And, though appropriate, he didn't make your "lost list," either.
Daniel Keys Moran wrote a series of novels many years ago, Emerald Eyes, The Long Run, and The Last Dancer. They're now out of print, but, as luck would have it, he's made them available as PDFs for all to read. You'll like them, I promise. In a near future, the U.N. controls the world, AIs struggle to achieve citizenship, hackers try to outrun cyborg U.N. PKF officers, and, well, you'll have to read them to see what else.
The good news is, Mr. Moran is writing again, and his adoring fans are expecting the next book in the series (we're hoping for a total of six before he quits completely) should be out by Spring. It's an exciting tale about... oh, if I told you that, it would ruin the first book. And a good chunk of the second. So I'll keep quiet about that.
But, you must know, I've recommended your novels to Moran fans on the mailing list, and those who've read them return positive reviews. Please don't wait until your child graduates high school to produce the next in the series.
So, I'm still confused on the whole bit about quantum teleportation. I thought I got it, then after reading some more realized that I didn't get it, then thought I was gaining on it when I read something you recommended, then seem to have lost it again when I read where you said:
So, yes, you could spend aeons dragging entangled electrons to distant planets. And you could use quantum teleportation to send information instantaneously between them. But then you'd have to wait for the classical component of the message to reach you via normal sublight channels.
WTF? Pardon my outburst, but if you successfully send "information" instantaneously, what "classical component" do you have to wait for? And, by the way, would it not be "via normal light-speed channels" and not "sublight"? Let's not make things worse than they are, please. That aside, even after reading the article you linked to at IBM, I'm thoroughly confused. And I thought I generally "got" this sort of thing better than others, so there's currently a hole in my psyche that needs filling in. I would appreciate any help you can offer.
If you care to help, feel free to contact me at my updated-less-often-than-Chris-Moriarty's-blog, TheSpoon.
Oh, and if I didn't say so, thanks for being a great author.
Cheers.
J.D. Ray
Portland, Oregon
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