[FRIAM] Shameless self-promotion

[Douglas Roberts]

What?!  No saxophone-playing complexity scientists?  FRIAM has at *least*
two of those...

Hmph.  See if *I* read your novel.

;-}

Seriously, congrats, Pamela!

--Doug

-- 
Doug Roberts, RTI International
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On 9/13/07, Pamela McCorduck <pamela at well.com> wrote:
>
> 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
>
>
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