Smellhole Notes.
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Dammit I knew I should have saved that comment, they deleted my last one.
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Thanks again Rob for mentioning the cover!Ampoliros wrote:Hmm, well I guess I'll have to guess at what warrented the deletion of my last post. My response was to Xour to let him know that the rest of the book, which I have finished, does not answer his questions.
This excerpt deals with a pivotal example:
Look at the cover. Read the excerpt, specifically the part where the storms:
-"whip-lightning skittered along the street, etching black lines of melted dust"
-"We have worse weather than any other DZ world. Our climatologists have to rewrite their models after each major storm"
-"surface to sky bursts tore up the landscape, exploding little craters in the dirt"
Now of course these storms are set here to build the background for Hellhole as a dangerous and vicious environment where people have to struggle to survive. The storms are hundreds of kilometers across, and we're told the warning alarms for the storm gave them minutes if not seconds to get to shelter. Right now the audience has a reasonable amount of dramatic tension.
Then, in an attempt to show that Hellhole wants to appear more civilized, the authors mention that Sophie has "low hills covered in a courduroy of grapevines" and the authors mention that dust from the storm might damage them. Now look at the cover and put a vineyard there. Throw in wheat fields and some cattle ranches.
Do you see what I mean when I say one thing is true at one point of the story and another thing is true at another point of the story? Now if it was one thing, or a few small errors, that's excusable, any author can make a few mistakes. But this is a blatant disregard for continuity, and for what? So Hellhole can appear both dangerous yet somehow tamed? Errors like this make serious readers stop dead in their tracks.
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courduroy of grapevines
That's a quote, isn't it?
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I didn't see that comment, either, Amp, just now when I posted mine (I prefer short & tart and to the point; less angst when they delete! ):
(Nice one, HBJ. So who's this tnh twat again?)12. SandChigger
TUESDAY APRIL 12, 2011 12:29PM EDT
How often does TOR release nearly one fifth of a book as a sample?
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Really? I wondered whether they were deleting posts. What was the gist of it, Amp?
My tl;dr one seems to still be there. I hope our editor friend replies.
Edited to add: Oops; should read the posts that post-blocked me. Never mind Amp. And nice one, Chig. Sometimes short and sweet is more effective.
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My tl;dr one seems to still be there. I hope our editor friend replies.
Edited to add: Oops; should read the posts that post-blocked me. Never mind Amp. And nice one, Chig. Sometimes short and sweet is more effective.
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- Carl Sagan
I'm still very proud of The Quarry but … let's face it; in the end the real best way to sign off would have been with a great big rollicking Culture novel.
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SandChigger wrote:I didn't see that comment, either, Amp, just now when I posted mine (I prefer short & tart and to the point; less angst when they delete! ):
(Nice one, HBJ. So who's this tnh twat again?)12. SandChigger
TUESDAY APRIL 12, 2011 12:29PM EDT
How often does TOR release nearly one fifth of a book as a sample?
tnh= Teresa Nielsen Hayden She of the thin skin. Her husband is a better editor than she is.
Rob
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Ah. Thanks, Rob.
So she always gets her nipples tied up in knots that easily? That's good to know.
And this just in:
Fuuuuuuck.
So she always gets her nipples tied up in knots that easily? That's good to know.
And this just in:
Writtings. As in, "things that they have writ"?13. ABigFan
TUESDAY APRIL 12, 2011 12:50PM EDT
Just finished this book and loved it. Can't wait until the next 2 are published. I want to thank the authors for all the years of enjoyment that I've gotten thru their writtings.
Fuuuuuuck.
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SandChigger wrote:Ah. Thanks, Rob.
So she always gets her nipples tied up in knots that easily? That's good to know.
She's a fucking twit.Outside the science-fiction community, Nielsen Hayden is probably best known for her weblog,[citation needed] Making Light, where she writes about a wide range of subjects such as animal hoarding, publishing scams, astroturfing,[6] and global political events. She is the first recorded Internet editor to practice disemvoweling of the entire text of offensive posts; the term itself was coined in a Making Light post by Arthur Hlavaty.[7] She was the first lead comments moderator at the popular blog Boing Boing when it reopened its comments feature in 2007. In June, 2008, a controversy on Boing Boing concerning the "unpublication" of all articles that mention Sex-Columnist Violet Blue has generated criticism of some of her moderation techniques, including disemvowelment
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Blah blah blah I managed to become friends with Rob thoughAmpoliros wrote:I did post an edited review on Goodreads.com
If any of you are members there, friend me!
EDIT: Nevermind ... I found the review.
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OH SHIT, HER?!
Right, right, right, I remember her now: the Disemvoweler Cunt!
Right, right, right, I remember her now: the Disemvoweler Cunt!
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In retrospect I might not have filled the anti-spam thing out. I was running out the door when I posted it. We shall see, and I already hv rspns wrttn!
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Did you read the Talifan blog that Cassy linked to on GoodReads?
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Yeah. It was written by a moron-shill. Probably a member of Al-KJAida. I skimmed it when I realized all he was doing was demonizing talifans as being one step above the actual Taliban. "If you disagree you are an evil terrorist" was what I got out of it.
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Al-KJAida is brilliant!
Amp has done it again!
Amp has done it again!
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... brilliant.Ampoliros wrote:Yeah. It was written by a moron-shill. Probably a member of Al-KJAida. I skimmed it when I realized all he was doing was demonizing talifans as being one step above the actual Taliban. "If you disagree you are an evil terrorist" was what I got out of it.
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and wrote a Dune Novel."
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....Robspierre wrote:SandChigger wrote:Ah. Thanks, Rob.
So she always gets her nipples tied up in knots that easily? That's good to know.
She's a fucking twit.Outside the science-fiction community, Nielsen Hayden is probably best known for her weblog,[citation needed] Making Light, where she writes about a wide range of subjects such as animal hoarding, publishing scams, astroturfing,[6] and global political events. She is the first recorded Internet editor to practice disemvoweling of the entire text of offensive posts; the term itself was coined in a Making Light post by Arthur Hlavaty.[7] She was the first lead comments moderator at the popular blog Boing Boing when it reopened its comments feature in 2007. In June, 2008, a controversy on Boing Boing concerning the "unpublication" of all articles that mention Sex-Columnist Violet Blue has generated criticism of some of her moderation techniques, including disemvowelment
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Shitty pun is shitty.
Has not religion claimed a patent on creation for all of these millennia?
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-The Tleilaxu Question,
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Gotta agree. That's brilliant.D Pope wrote:Al-KJAida is brilliant!
Amp has done it again!
Edited to add: Frankly, I'm surprised that tnh pulled out the "personal opinion" card when responding to posts about the excerpt. If she's an editor, she should know better. That sounds arrogant and condescending, I know, but hell, I'm neither a writer nor an editor, but if I can point to that paragraph, and this one over here, and that passage there, and this misused word here and explain why the writing just doesn't work, then she should be able to see it, too.
Read a chapter of Hellhole and then read a chapter from an author who can actually write. It's really not hard to see the difference.
HBJ,
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It says alot if she is the editor.
as for the Al-KJAida thing that came from long ago, in this thread:viewtopic.php?f=13&t=736
as for the Al-KJAida thing that came from long ago, in this thread:viewtopic.php?f=13&t=736
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From the acknowledgements page:
Editor at TOR: Pat LoBrutto
Editor at Simon & Schuster UK: Maxine Hitchcock
Rob
Editor at TOR: Pat LoBrutto
Editor at Simon & Schuster UK: Maxine Hitchcock
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Ah, not *the* editor, then. Just *an* editor.
Thanks, Rob.
HBJ
Thanks, Rob.
HBJ
"The sky calls to us. If we do not destroy ourselves, we will one day venture to the stars."
- Carl Sagan
I'm still very proud of The Quarry but … let's face it; in the end the real best way to sign off would have been with a great big rollicking Culture novel.
- Iain Banks
- Carl Sagan
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Amp, did you see the comment from Irene? Looks like it might have been a problem with their default preview-first/submit-with-captcha commenting setup.
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post links, please ...SandChigger wrote:Did you read the Talifan blog that Cassy linked to on GoodReads?
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CLICK!!!SandRider wrote:post links, please ...SandChigger wrote:Did you read the Talifan blog that Cassy linked to on GoodReads?
"... the mystery of life isn't a problem to solve but a reality to experience."
“There is no escape—we pay for the violence of our ancestors.”
Sandrider: "Keith went to Bobo's for a weekend of drinking, watched some DVDs,
and wrote a Dune Novel."
“There is no escape—we pay for the violence of our ancestors.”
Sandrider: "Keith went to Bobo's for a weekend of drinking, watched some DVDs,
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thankee ... i can haz linx to goodread review ? can post comments w/o account ?
hates register, hates ... i give email for spam, u let me comment, yes ?
hates register, hates ... i give email for spam, u let me comment, yes ?
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