tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5143440998478479157.post976211297427103865..comments2024-03-24T14:47:00.370-07:00Comments on Approaching Pavonis Mons by balloon: VastAl Rhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01517967406876572177noreply@blogger.comBlogger23125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5143440998478479157.post-36779301112076554852015-10-24T03:23:19.251-07:002015-10-24T03:23:19.251-07:00Get ready for another bump, as I'll be purchas...Get ready for another bump, as I'll be purchasing the other books in the Vast universe, and your new ones! :)Davehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10567709389917116377noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5143440998478479157.post-42319042589637060142011-07-06T21:07:26.096-07:002011-07-06T21:07:26.096-07:00Great recommendation, I'm enjoyingVast on my i...Great recommendation, I'm enjoyingVast on my iPad (kindle reader). An excellent story so far, I was in dire need of a good read, this is great!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5143440998478479157.post-28086650431592356692011-07-05T10:13:30.655-07:002011-07-05T10:13:30.655-07:00Thanks, Chris! I like the idea of an underground i...Thanks, Chris! I like the idea of an underground influence, very true I think. Sorry to report that I've yet to read any of your books, but I hope to rectify that omission soon. It's telling that I read VAST in 1999; by 2000 I was into a book a year contract and my own SF reading took a sharp nosedive from that point on. I was probably able to read 15 or 20 SF novels before 2000; now it's a good year if I read 5.Al Rhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01517967406876572177noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5143440998478479157.post-32216643553710143452011-07-04T17:27:03.883-07:002011-07-04T17:27:03.883-07:00Thanks so much for this post! Linda Nagata was a h...Thanks so much for this post! Linda Nagata was a huge influence on me and a whole generation of women hard SF writers. It was frustrating - and more than a little daunting - to see how hard her books were to find for a while. And it's great to see them coming back into circulation. I had the same experience as you with VAST, by the way; I first read it with no awareness that it was even part of a larger cycle. Luckily it works beautifully as a standalone novel. But still, I confess .... I'm very much looking forward to rereading it now that I've finally read the BOHR MAKER as well. Nagata is a brilliant writer and, I think, a major underground influence on the genre. Nice to see her getting some long overdue attention!Chris Moriartyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03024173492445156026noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5143440998478479157.post-52880641543012449942011-07-01T17:50:32.974-07:002011-07-01T17:50:32.974-07:00Well I for one am happy to have been part of the b...Well I for one am happy to have been part of the bump in sales of Vast - thank you for the recommendation! I kept being reminded of Galactic North - your story not the collection - as I read through Vast. And yeah - "mind blowing" was right.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5143440998478479157.post-51458296600914793962011-06-27T04:35:16.082-07:002011-06-27T04:35:16.082-07:00Hi Linda! Thanks so much for dropping by, I'm ...Hi Linda! Thanks so much for dropping by, I'm delighted, and very pleased that my post might have driven some readers toward VAST and your other novels. Exploit away! And I look forward to our paths crossing at some point. Good luck and best wishes.Al Rhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01517967406876572177noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5143440998478479157.post-14140538424908529442011-06-26T17:49:13.366-07:002011-06-26T17:49:13.366-07:00Hi Alistair--thanks so much for this post. I disco...Hi Alistair--thanks so much for this post. I discovered it after noticing a bump in ebook sales for VAST, and have been shamelessly exploiting it ever since. I wanted to write you a nice thank you but couldn't come up with your email, so I thought I'd stop by here. I very much appreciate the kind words and am glad to know your own books are doing so well.Linda Nagatahttp://mythicisland.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5143440998478479157.post-3172776336085933312011-06-21T04:07:31.565-07:002011-06-21T04:07:31.565-07:00Hi Deborah - I'd like to think that was the ca...Hi Deborah - I'd like to think that was the case, although (like most writers, I suspect) I don't really have any good feeling for how my readership breaks down along gender lines. The people who show up for signings, or who email me or post comments on my blog, are a self-selecting set, and I'm not sure how they map onto the larger constituency of readers. As I've mentioned elsewhere, I do notice different gender ratios in different countries, but again it's hard to draw definitive conclusions.Al Rhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01517967406876572177noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5143440998478479157.post-45720699161406255122011-06-20T09:39:08.228-07:002011-06-20T09:39:08.228-07:00I politely disagree. Alastair Reynolds has no prob...I politely disagree. Alastair Reynolds has no problem attracting women followers.Deborah Walkerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10120928766455872439noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5143440998478479157.post-79187928552689413712011-06-19T02:27:32.537-07:002011-06-19T02:27:32.537-07:00I get a bit sick of the "not enough woman&quo...I get a bit sick of the "not enough woman" argument with things like this and for example say in physics. No one disputes that girls have preferences in younger life (how many get a GI joe for xmass), why not older life? Woman on average just don't like physics dito for non fantasy sci fi. Sure there are exceptions, but they are exceptions non the less. <br /><br />I am willing to bet that your reader profile is also very heavily slanted to males. Probably in similar proportion. <br /><br />My wife reads excessively. Almost every author is a woman. Perhaps we need more male author writing romance novels instead (or worse, vampire romance novels).Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5143440998478479157.post-44703871249280241442011-06-18T21:33:32.307-07:002011-06-18T21:33:32.307-07:00I loved Memory. Tech-Heaven is also very good, d...I loved Memory. Tech-Heaven is also very good, despite the unfortunate title. If Vast helped inspire House of Suns, I have to read it: House of Suns is one of my favorite SF novels of the past decade. Linda has been releasing her e-books in a wide variety of formats, and with much better editing than is typical of commercial e-books, and I think a ton of the profits go straight into her pocket. Thanks for mentioning her here. I would love it if she started doing well enough on e-book sales that she started writing more books like these.Ted Lemonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16951216043358903560noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5143440998478479157.post-31275000763025017942011-06-17T16:02:38.120-07:002011-06-17T16:02:38.120-07:00Thanks for the recommendation! I immediately bough...Thanks for the recommendation! I immediately bought Vast (it and the rest are fairly recently available in Kindle editions) and I'm about 1/2 way through; it's fantastic. It definitely echoes a bit of the flavor of the Conjoiner universe to me (or I supposed that could be the other way round?)<br /><br />Anyway, great reading - thanks for bringing her books to attention!Adam A.https://www.blogger.com/profile/01355379753990954904noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5143440998478479157.post-1846215041471144852011-06-16T19:26:35.135-07:002011-06-16T19:26:35.135-07:00Limit of Vision and Memory are none too shabby eit...Limit of Vision and Memory are none too shabby either. I have Vast in HC and it looks as good as it reads. Apart from Jaine Fenn who I haven't read, the only other Brit chic writer I know of is Justina Robson who I think write's some of the most complex yet humane SF I've ever read. Both her and Nagata are required reading IMO.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5143440998478479157.post-88558710496464144122011-06-16T12:35:56.329-07:002011-06-16T12:35:56.329-07:00I read Vast, the Bohr Maker and a couple of Linda ...I read Vast, the Bohr Maker and a couple of Linda Nagata's other books a few years back (I still have some of the paperbacks on my bookshelves). I was fortunate enough to be a member of Compuserve's classic SFLIT Forum in the mid-late 1990's, when it was THE place to be, and every SF writer of note who was online seemed to be a member there (these were the days before everyone and their dog had their own websites or blogs). Linda Nagata was also a member, and we were able to keep up to date with her books whilst being able to chat to her. She fascinated me - most female SF authors that I read (LeGuin, Rusch and a few others) wrote the softer stuff. But here was a lady who wrote dark, techno, almost cyberpunk, ultra-hard, far future SF as well as any of the big male SF authors, and better than most of them. Her books deserve a MUCH wider following, and really, really should be re-issued to the mass market sooner rather than later. I, for one, will be hurrying off to the link given above to download all of her ebooks, and, hopefully, fill in any gaps in my Nagata collection of dead-tree books. I hope many more people support this highly talented and greatly underrated author by doing the same.Phil Frielhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09465420324210797220noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5143440998478479157.post-3811481874735831702011-06-15T15:09:04.319-07:002011-06-15T15:09:04.319-07:00Thanks for the head's up - I've just order...Thanks for the head's up - I've just ordered the first volume in the series for my Kindle and am keen to check it out...kaihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03675538969081301816noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5143440998478479157.post-26878682984993405172011-06-15T11:50:28.813-07:002011-06-15T11:50:28.813-07:00Only one. Wow, that's shocking.Only one. Wow, that's shocking.Deborah Walkerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10120928766455872439noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5143440998478479157.post-62931724401925802412011-06-15T10:46:54.696-07:002011-06-15T10:46:54.696-07:00Yeah, I loved Vast as well, but didn't know it...Yeah, I loved Vast as well, but didn't know it was part of a series of books. Makes me want to go back, get those and re-read Vast.Gary Gibson, science fiction writerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16479905286212513002noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5143440998478479157.post-51506615949737695772011-06-15T09:27:23.778-07:002011-06-15T09:27:23.778-07:00That's a +1 on the recommendation, in fact, I ...That's a +1 on the recommendation, in fact, I ran across your work by searching for something similar in theme and mindblowiness to Vast.Fedman Kassadhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02289079145958517917noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5143440998478479157.post-15326377121998169102011-06-15T09:03:44.284-07:002011-06-15T09:03:44.284-07:00It was a nice interview but I hate to be launched ...It was a nice interview but I hate to be launched spaceships out. :)Tibor Moriczhttp://frombartobar.wordpress.com/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5143440998478479157.post-33388761218259085432011-06-15T08:18:07.590-07:002011-06-15T08:18:07.590-07:00Nagata is selling her old novels as ebooks, includ...<a href="http://hahvi.net/" rel="nofollow">Nagata</a> is selling her old novels as ebooks, including <i><a href="http://www.mythicisland.com/vastpage.php" rel="nofollow">Vast</a></i>.Cosma Shalizihttp://bactra.org/weblog/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5143440998478479157.post-74199749092140215162011-06-15T08:05:16.781-07:002011-06-15T08:05:16.781-07:00Looks like Vast is out of print. Appears to be a f...Looks like Vast is out of print. Appears to be a few used copies floating around though. Thanks for the recommendation.shanehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14389842520448331092noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5143440998478479157.post-7394368412294761862011-06-15T08:00:15.178-07:002011-06-15T08:00:15.178-07:00The Bohr Maker is great as well, Peter. I still ne...The Bohr Maker is great as well, Peter. I still need to track down Deception Well, the third novel.Al Rhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01517967406876572177noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5143440998478479157.post-31529276889907314362011-06-15T06:57:28.384-07:002011-06-15T06:57:28.384-07:00I love VAST, but if anything I love one of its pre...I love VAST, but if anything I love one of its predecessors, THE BOHR MAKER, even more. It's very hard to find though - VAST was at least re-issued in the UK I believe...Peter Hollohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06478285066084742495noreply@blogger.com