[FRIAM] Shameless self-promotion

[Pamela McCorduck]

My first novel in over thirty yeas, "The Edge of Chaos," has just been  
released.  The authors' copies arrived last night.  Set mostly in Santa  
Fe, though parts of it are set in Frankfurt and Munich, Germany and two  
of the major characters come from New York City.

Here's the copy blurb:

An internationally renowned scientist who fears she's taken one  
scientific risk too many; a distinguished archaeologist who's haunted  
by taking too few; a world famous financier who's lost everything  
except his money; an art gallery owner with a heartbreaking burden; a  
fugitive filmmaker; the head of a battered women's shelter--these are  
some of the people who find themselves at the end of the Old Santa Fe  
Trail at the end of the 20th century.  Chance has brought them from all  
over to beautiful legendary Santa Fe, New Mexico, where they shape,  
illuminate, and even deform each other's lives unexpectedly, as if on  
the very edge of chaos.

This edge of chaos, a scientific term for that slender territory  
between frozen predictabililty and hopeless disorder, is a dangerously  
unstable place.  Learning and change can only happen there, but always  
under threat of sliding back to frozen order--or over into the chaotic  
abyss.  And Santa Fe's sons and daughters, even now, keep a precarious  
foothold on The Edge of Chaos, bringing their own pasts and their  
city's rich history into an uncertain but exhilarating future.

Available on Amazon:

http://www.amazon.com/Edge-Chaos-Pamela-McCorduck/dp/0865345783/ 
ref=sr_1_2/102-5640244-6038511?ie=UTF

Sorry for the shameless self-promotion, but getting a book out is about  
like having a baby, except it takes longer.




"A little patience, and we shall see the reign of witches pass over,  
their spells dissolve, and the people, recovering their true sight,  
restore their government to its true principles.  It is true that in  
the meantime we are suffering deeply in spirit, and incurring the  
horrors of war and long oppressions of enormous public debt...If the  
game runs sometimes against us at home we must have patience till luck  
turns, and then we shall have the opportunity of winning back the  
principles we have lost, for this is a game where principles are at  
stake."

						Thomas Jefferson