[FRIAM] Shameless self-promotion

[Stephen Guerin]

The Amazon truck came today. Congratulations, Pamela!!

-S 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: friam-bounces at redfish.com 
> [mailto:friam-bounces at redfish.com] On Behalf Of Pamela McCorduck
> Sent: Thursday, September 13, 2007 9:55 AM
> To: The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group
> Subject: Re: [FRIAM] Shameless self-promotion
> 
> 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:
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> 
> 	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
> 	droberts at rti.org
> 	doug at parrot-farm.net
> 	505-455-7333 - Office
> 	505-670-8195 - Cell
> 	
> 	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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