England managed to pull themselves out of the quagmire that has been their Rugby performance thus far in the RWC 2007. Better late than never, but perhaps a little too late... They have yet to face Tonga, who gave South Africa a run for their money today.
Rounded off Joe Haldeman's Peace And War last night - 700 pages of science fiction, deep joy! This is an Omnibus edition that contains The Forever War, Forever Free and Forever Peace. Now moved onto a Jeremy Clarkson's Born To Be Riled for a change of pace before getting back into the science fiction vein.
I'll be getting myself into trouble very soon when I get to the local book shop - have Sandworms Of Dune by Brian Herbert and Kevin J. Anderson to collect and I'd ordered Eifelheim by Michael Flynn and Blindsight by Peter Watts. Eifelheim won the Hugo Award this year, so I'm looking forward to having a copy in my grubby little mits!
I've been listening to 7th Son Trilogy, Book 3 - Destruction by J.C.Hutchins and Beautiful Red by Darusha Wehm. J.C.Hutchins' 7th Son is a great story, start with Descent - which is Book 1. Darusha Wehm's Beautiful Red is Cyberpunk and another good story. Both are available for free subscription from Podiobooks.com - as it Terra Incognita...
Episode 14 of TI is now available on Podiobooks.com, episode 15 will be following on this week ;-) I've been thinking about producing Praedari - the sequel to Terra Incognita - as a Podiobook as well. Thus far, the core cast from TI have agreed to reprise their characters for the sequel; which is a very good start!
I have the first eighteen chapters of Praedari almost ready to distribute to the cast, but Kevin (the Narrator) has asked to have all the narrative first, so he can get a head start on everyone else. So I think I'll need to complete converting the novel into distinct character or narrator parts before that goes any further...
It looks like a good friend - Geoff Nelder - is going to have his co-written science fiction anthology Dimensions released by Podiobooks as well. I've offered to put each episode together for him, as in mixing his recorded reading with music (from MagnaTune) and intro and outro title piece - should be fairly straight forward as I've built up a reasonable amount of experience with the TI episodes...
Best get on - things to do (as ever!)
Cheers,
Gary
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Eifelheim won the Hugo Award this year
Sorry to disappoint you, but it was Vernor Vinge's Rainbows End that won. Eifelheim was just a nominee. Full details here.
My apologies - as Cheryl quite correctly states, Vernor Vinge's Rainbows End won this year!
Yet another book to add to the list of those to buy and read!
Cheers,
Gary
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