[bksvol-discuss] Re: New Submission - Finally
- From: Grandma Cindy <popularplace@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sun, 12 Aug 2007 18:54:28 -0700 (PDT)
I've seen the books--was totally unable to help Amy in
any way. Yes, it was a lot of dedicated work on her
part, and I hope a careful and dedicated sci fi fan
will do her careful scan justice. She's careful, so
the validation should be easy.
Cindy
--- Evan Reese <mentat1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Jeepers! That sounds like a lot of dedicated work! I
> can't validate it, too
> many other prior obligations, but I'll definitely
> pick it up when it gets
> into the collection.
>
> Thanks for conscientiously doing this difficult job.
>
> Evan
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Amy Goldring Tajalli
> To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Sent: Sunday, August 12, 2007 6:12 PM
> Subject: [bksvol-discuss] New Submission - Finally
>
>
> Hello everyone,
>
> I just submitted Alfred Bester's Virtual
> Unrealities a collection of 17
> short stories which will challenge any reader, even
> those who are used to
> modern science fiction. Bester's characters speak
> more languages than most
> of us know or even recognize but he knows that, I
> assume, as we don't need
> to know most of what they are saying - only that
> they are speaking in many
> languages and, mostly, in clich� phrases. Often
it
> is enough to know that
> someone is speaking to 3 different people in 3
> different languages to know
> that the female has show her brilliance as a
> hostess. The story "The Pi
> Man" may drive some reader's crazy but if you have
> patience the meaning
> comes clear and you may be as fascinated as I was 50
> years ago and still am.
> But also frustrated.
>
> I included "scanner's notes" at the beginning of
> the book [on a blank
> page] as an introduction to explain the sentences
> which might end up being a
> bunch of meaningless words on the left margin or
> which might be as the are
> in the book - in interesting shapes so that the
> shape of the sentence is
> what it means. One character had lunch in Paris and
> the sentence that tells
> us that is in the shape of the Eiffel tower.
> Because of that, the reader
> may not read it in a way that makes sense so
> throughout the book I had notes
> describing what was not visible and putting the
> sentences so that they could
> imagine the shape and understand the image Bester
> has created.
>
> I hope when it is available many of you will read
> it and if you like it
> please let me know. And if you did not like my notes
> please tell me that
> also.
>
> Amy
> omsm
>
> agoldringtajalli@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>
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