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Freyja Valdimarsdottir
Awareness Member
Post Number:
1
Registered: 01-2004
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Tuesday, January 13, 2004 - 07:07 am: |   |
I'm going to order from Amazon this week and I want to read some fantasy and sci-fi. If it's sci-fi I don't want hard sci-fi. I like Lois Bujold for instance and Anne McCaffrey.
It's so hard to choose from all that's on the market so.... 
Have you read anything great recently? |
Sheila Schmidt
Hsympothai Member
Post Number:
369
Registered: 05-2002
Rating: N/A
Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Tuesday, January 13, 2004 - 08:56 am: | |
Try 'Who Needs a Hero' by Todd Hunter (God, if I misspelled his name won't I be the embarrassed one...). Freyja, it is a reasonably short book, but definately worth the read. I think you'll really like it.
Sheila
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Freyja Valdimarsdottir
Awareness Member
Post Number:
2
Registered: 01-2004
Rating: N/A
Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Tuesday, January 13, 2004 - 10:08 am: | |
Thanks, I'll check it out |
Tulla
Awareness Member
Post Number:
4
Registered: 12-2003
Rating: N/A
Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Tuesday, January 13, 2004 - 04:39 pm: | |
.....
You may want to check out the Book of the Month page on this forum; there is a small gathering of forum authors and titles of books....Another author of fantasy is C E Winterland, the host of this forum, his book is called Awareness....Enjoy.}
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Todd Hunter
Unity Member
Post Number:
1053
Registered: 02-2003
Rating: N/A
Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Wednesday, January 14, 2004 - 05:12 am: | |
Is Awareness available?
Sheila, you spelled it fine... :-P
Now, Aston is a name that gets misspelled all the time...hee hee. |
C. E. Winterland
Mindsight Moderator
Post Number:
1313
Registered: 06-2002
Rating: N/A
Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Wednesday, January 14, 2004 - 07:26 am: | |
Awareness is available, but only in e-book format (.lit at this point - MS reader, but I can make a PDF too)
CEW |
Steven Shrewsbury
Hsympothai Member
Post Number:
497
Registered: 04-2003
Rating: N/A
Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Tuesday, January 27, 2004 - 11:34 am: | |
While eBooks are cool, one can never beat paper... |
Todd Hunter
Unity Member
Post Number:
1087
Registered: 02-2003
Rating: N/A
Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Tuesday, January 27, 2004 - 03:34 pm: | |
I have to agree...
plus, you can't duplicate cool (or humorous) bookmarks in an e-book... :-) |
Fred Dungan
Wisdom Member
Post Number:
508
Registered: 10-2002
Rating: N/A
Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Tuesday, January 27, 2004 - 10:29 pm: | |
But what you can do with ebooks is indulge your desires to produce a true work of art that would be impossible to achieve in print. My illustrations either are cut by editors before they go to print or get scaled down to where they lose their original lustre. Nor is it possible to recreate sounds in print. If you want to see what I mean, go to http://www.fdungan.com/bushwhacked.htm and listen to what George W. Bush did for Bushwhacked (downright nice of him to provide the sound byte at no cost). Books, like their predecessors, scrolls, are on their way out. It's just a matter of time and technology. No doubt the ancient Egyptians thought papyrus was here to stay and the Babylonians couldn't imagine writing without clay tablets. So much for paper. Far better to wipe with it than to read from it.
http://www.fdungan.com/bushwhacked.htm
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Jennifer Lynn
Unity Member
Post Number:
1008
Registered: 03-2002
Rating: N/A
Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Tuesday, January 27, 2004 - 11:35 pm: | |
Not only that, but the variety you can get in ebooks is incredible. The NY publishers are stuck on putting out stuff that they THINK we should read. They don't want to try outside of the box, so a lot of talent gets missed. I've read some incredible stories that are cross-genred, something NY doesn't allow, but the writing truly rivals anything you'd see from any of those big publishers.
I agree Fred, while print will be here for a good long time, ebooks are here to stay and will only increase in popularity as time goes on.
Jenn |
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