[FRIAM] Shameless self-promotion
Pamela McCorduck
pamela at well.com
Thu Sep 27 09:19:21 EDT 2007
They're probably checking to make sure you're old enough to read the
X-rated parts.
On Sep 27, 2007, at 8:00 AM, Douglas Roberts wrote:
> Mine has not yet arrived. I *Know* I ordered mine before Stephen did.
>
> --Doug
>
> --
> Doug Roberts, RTI International
> droberts at rti.org
> doug at parrot-farm.net
> 505-455-7333 - Office
> 505-670-8195 - Cell
>
> On 9/26/07, Pamela McCorduck <pamela at well.com > wrote: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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>> >>
>> >>
>> >>
>> >
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>>
>> "A Messiah who actually arrives is no good to anybody. A hope
>> fulfilled is already half a disappointment."
>>
>> Michael Chabon, "The Yiddish
>> Policemen's Union"
>>
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"A Messiah who actually arrives is no good to anybody. A hope
fulfilled is already half a disappointment."
Michael Chabon, "The Yiddish Policemen's Union"
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