[FRIAM] Shameless self-promotion

[Pamela McCorduck]

Merci!


On Sep 26, 2007, at 10:09 PM, Stephen Guerin wrote:

> 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:
>>
>>
>>
>> 	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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