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This is a first impression of this apparently forgotten oldie.

I have to say I' m sufficiently intrigued by the story plot which follows the fall from grace of a senior public officer in a world controlled by opinion polls. Suffice it to say, plans within plans start to unfold and Daniel Movius, Ex-Senior Liaitor, is in the middle of it all.

What I particulary like is that this short story seems to be a spin-off of sorts of the Whipping Star/Dosadi Experiment novels which I very much like. It is not a Consentiency novel it itself but there are enough common elements to warrantee that Consentiency fans are hooked, for example the fact that the Low-Opps live in Warrens, all government agencies are called Bureaus, e.g.Bu-Psych (see BuSab) and semantics also plays a part.

SO, The Hack hasn't totally trashed it?

he can do that ? I mean not fuck up anything he touches ?

That IS hard to believe.

I'd love to say stranger things have happened, but we all know they didn't.

Hopefully he fucked up fucking it up.

Too busy watching crap DVDs to change anything, he probably missed most of the typos too.



(If he'd changed anything he would have tweeted about how he was a great literary historian)

Good point.
I guess it's still worth at least the effort to find out what the score is on this one.

Whipping Star is one of my favourite novels and I'd be happy to go back to the Consentiency again, but I'm starting to get a little wary of kjarse's manners now...

I don't care if all he did was fill in the punctuation. I won't support any HLP/KJA venture on principal. It is fouled simply by association with the hack.

Fishreader wrote:This is a first impression of this apparently forgotten oldie.

I have to say I' m sufficiently intrigued by the story plot which follows the fall from grace of a senior public officer in a world controlled by opinion polls. Suffice it to say, plans within plans start to unfold and Daniel Movius, Ex-Senior Liaitor, is in the middle of it all.

What I particulary like is that this short story seems to be a spin-off of sorts of the Whipping Star/Dosadi Experiment novels which I very much like. It is not a Consentiency novel it itself but there are enough common elements to warrantee that Consentiency fans are hooked, for example the fact that the Low-Opps live in Warrens, all government agencies are called Bureaus, e.g.Bu-Psych (see BuSab) and semantics also plays a part.

Several f his shrt stories use those things, actually.

Ampoliros wrote:I don't care if all he did was fill in the punctuation. I won't support any HLP/KJA venture on principal. It is fouled simply by association with the hack.

I won't touch nor acknowledge this either, despite my love for Whipping/Dosadi

Anybody read yet?

Mr. Teg wrote:Anybody read yet?

We refuse to pay money

Rob

Robspierre wrote:

Mr. Teg wrote:Anybody read yet?

We refuse to pay money

Rob

Oh, wait...
No hard copy only ebook?

Yep, only ebook.

Rob

No, it does exist as paperback too. ISBN 1614750386

ULFsurfer wrote:No, it does exist as paperback too. ISBN 1614750386

Looks like the "paperback" is published by Buttfire Duress, but also sold on Amazon.
So, used copies should be available soon.

Print on demand surely?

If there was any amount of money in releasing this they would have gone through Tor (a la Santaroga, Hellstrom, Whipping etc etc).

Maybe this is a sign that Tor is giving up on him?

I disagree;
I think he's trying to start publishing-
he's gotten popular enough to believe he's worth a larger share and the collaboration train is running out of gravy.
If e-publishing takes off in any realistic way, steve will be an award winning nominee media mogul.


...the fuckers got a good shot at it too...


edit; but yeah, I don't think Tor likes him

If you look at the kind of book he's putting out, I can't imagine them selling anywhere near enough to justify the up front costs of a real paper run.

He has got high hopes, and you're right, he might even succeed - He has a massive back catalogue nobody else wants to print (suddenly it all makes sense!), Brian has his own back-catalogue and also keeps producing unsellable content... and he's got mate's rates access to Frank Herbert's works - The Pandora books a brilliant, but I doubt they shift much volume, although with near-zero-costs digital distribution, that doesn't really matter.

But we won't be seeing old Dune or NuDune released by him any time soon. Just enough money left there for everyone involved to stay interested... until they start forcing so called editors onto him.

This is interesting:

http://www.kindleboards.com/index.php?topic=107826.0" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

HBJ

Hunchback Jack wrote:This is interesting:

http://www.kindleboards.com/index.php?topic=107826.0" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

HBJ

$10.79 in paperback for Prime members??? WTF?

http://www.kindleboards.com/index.php/t ... msg1700330" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Very nice.

HBJ