Am I reading this right that the only dead-tree edition is the Print-on-demand one? And does this mean it won't be available in actual brick-and-mortar bookstores?
And -- while I'm asking questions -- is this a first for a book by such well-established authors/editors? I've bought a few POD books before, but they were fairly obscure items of specialty interests (I'm thinking of Robert Borski's volumes of Wolfe criticism, and I think the book on Crowley, Snake's Hands, was POD too). I'm surprised to see the Hartwell/Cramer volume in this format (unless - again - I'm simply misunderstanding the post).
TNH #114: my list of sure-fire works for inexperienced readers, which is set in 10 pt. type with narrow leading...
Am the only one who really wants to see this list?
Please? Pretty please with sugar on top?
#31 Patrick:
I absolutely, smugly -- dare I say "cockily"? -- sure that you are wrong on this; and I can say this lacking any expertise on the matter (indeed, I've never heard of the song before) simply because I'm so great.
(...never able to avoid the obvious joke. Oh well. I can do them fabulously! Everyone always laughs at them! Because I'm so great! (&c))
Not to clog up this (characteristically great) ML conversation with trivia, but I really thought I'd see this get more love:
#6: This is an orphan footnote. It needs a home; won't you adopt it today?
As for myself, I can't possibly adopt it right now, but am willing to offer it a foster home in a blog post on my blog...
...although, alas, the theory doesn't work.
Still a great headline, though.
This seems like perfect particle particle/sidelight fodder, particularly given the truly awesome headline attached:
Surfer dude stuns physicists with theory of everything
(Seen on the blog of Gerry Canavan, who notes, "Not from the Onion...")
#78, --E: Thanks! Although it still sounds like things that ought to be programable (although of course these things are hard to judge).
re point 2: this surely is just a side-effect of the fact that they are easier to use?
(Although it reminds me there is a worse option than either endnotes or footnotes: notes at the end of each chapter. Ugh!)
#93 Randolph: I wasn't suggesting using Word (and I don't think --E took me that way); it was more along the lines of, "If a piss-poor program like Word can do it, surely other programs can do a decent job...".
Still would love to hear more people on this, if anyone has any insight.
Incidentally, I have a tangentially related question that editorial folk around here might be able to answer. (It was brought to mind by the whole 'electronic submissions' question.) I've frequently heard it said that publishers (in contrast to readers) prefer endnotes to footnotes because the latter are hard to lay out, to typeset (and to whatever-other-verbs-are-needed-to-get-a-manuscript-turned-into-a-printed-book.) What I don't get is why this isn't anachronistic. I mean, sure, back in the typewriter days laying out footnotes was difficult. But now lots of programs -- any word processing program, and also more sophisticated page layout programs too -- do it automatically. So what's the big deal? Why not make them footnotes and spare everyone the grief? Is there in fact a good reason, or is this just inertia?
Post: Twenty and thirty years ago, I knew lots of people who read the SF magazines without aspiring to write for them. These days, in my own sphere of social awareness, I know only a few such people...
#20: Six to nine cents a word is a hobby, not a profession.
I'm guessing these two things are related. From what I understand, literary magazines don't pay much either.
...oops, missed #27 where it was already mentioned. My bad.
#43: And don't forget Leon Kass's famous aversion to ice cream cones. No, that's not a joke -- or, rather, it *is* a joke, but it's one that Kass made on himself while being entirely serious...
#7: I suppose Patrick answered this with #14, but I thought that someone should really point out that, in addition to everything else, Bush actually lost the 2000 election.
He's not, even, the only President to take office after loosing an election -- several have done that, too. (J. Q. Adams, Hayes.)
I thought Michael Berube was the greatest blogger alive?
He is. So is Fred Clark. And our hosts here.
Does anyone remember that old Marvel Superhero... whatzit called Captain Universe? (IMS they recently pulled it out of retirement, too.) Captain Universe was a mysterious force that floated around and lighted on random people, who would then be temporarily granted powers and a superhero costume. Once the issue was over, the CU power would move on.
The Greatest Blogger alive is like that. Fred Clark is one of its perennial hosts, but far from its only one.
(Which is to say: I quickly realized it wasn't, of course, but thought it might give me an excuse to quote the poem...)
Somewhere in the first paragraph I thought that this was an anticipatory plagiarism of W. S. Merwin:
FOR THE ANNIVERSARY OF MY DEATH
Every year without knowing it I have passed the day
When the last fires will wave to me
And the silence will set out
Tireless traveler
Like the beam of a lightless star
Then I will no longer
Find myself in life as in a strange garment
Surprised at the earth
And the love of one woman
And the shamelessness of men
As today writing after three days of rain
Hearing the wren sing and the falling cease
And bowing not knowing to what
-- W. S. Merwin
#47: Bravo, Heresiarch! Hats off! -- or should I say, shoes off!
#37: For the sake of any secret service agents reading, I should stress that I have no intention of nor interest in spitting on Bush; it was a purely theoretical question.
#38: Again theoretical. That said, this is in the Green Zone: isn't that the U.S. Embassy? Which would make it US soil from a legal standpoint...
#32: I have a vague memory of some such statue. But I wonder how far it goes. Is spitting on the President an assault? (Of course, with *this* President driving a car with his opponent's bumper sticker can get you evicted from a rally as a security risk, so the standards are already rather low...)
#26 above led me to the Angry Arab's blog, who had Patrick's reaction to the media's portrayal almost two years ago.
But this leads me to wonder: this is a blog filled with SF writers, editors and fans. Surely we can *imagine* a human culture in which throwing shoes was in the category of flowers, confetti & tickertape? (Preferably a culture in which shoes tended to be soft cloth (or the heads extra hard.)) C'mon, someone should write it...
When I read the title to the first of the two links at the end, I thought it'd be a story or joke about an actual narcissistic vampire, the actual get-dusted-by-Buffy kind. Still seems to me that that might make a very funny story in the right hands.
| Year | Number of comments posted |
|---|---|
| 2009 | 16 |
| 2008 | 51 |
| 2007 | 23 |
| 2006 | 33 |
| 2005 | 1 |
Total: 124 comments. View all these comments on a single page.
The most recent 20 comments posted to Making Light by Stephen Frug:
Show all comments by Stephen Frug.