[FRIAM] Shameless self-promotion

[Pamela McCorduck]

One of our complexity scientists in this novel claims she plays the 
piano passably.


On Sep 13, 2007, at 10:40 AM, Douglas Roberts wrote:

> 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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> doug at parrot-farm.net
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> On 9/13/07, Pamela McCorduck <pamela at well.com> wrote:
>> 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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"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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