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they come in threes
Feb. 28th, 2009 04:42 pmThree fairly pleasing reviews have arrived in the past 24 hours or less, covering three very different pieces of work. I'm beginning to wish things came in fives rather than threes. Sevens or nines would be good, too. Elevens even better . . .
Anyway:
Dave, on Dave Does the Blog, has largely complimentary things to say about Corrupted Science, although he feels -- and I think this is a very fair comment -- I should have made it into three or fours books rather than just one. (Let's hope someone responds by buying him Discarded Science and an advance order of Bogus Science!)
. . . it makes for some interesting contrasts. Some anti-science True Believers will be most tickled by the first few chapters, where we see scientist successfully (for a time) getting away with faked or delusional results, and the not-infrequent resistance of the scientific community to turn on them when the perpetrators are important or have powerful supporters. Those same gleeful readers will in turn pitch a fit when it comes to Grant’s resounding dismissal of Creationism/Intelligent Design and lambasting of the Dubya years when science was repeated distorted or disregarded to deny global warming, condemn abortion, and support abstinence education, along with other business- and/or conservative-friendly results.
Meanwhile, over on The Workshop of Filthy Creation Calenture is continuing the serialized review of D.F. Lewis's anthology Nemonymous 8: Cone Zero, in which I have a story. Because of the rules of the Nemonymous game, I can't tell you which story is mine, but I can say that Calenture has given it an exceptionally friendly review!
Talking of Nemonymous's required temporary anonymity, in the case of Cone Zero this anonymity is coming to an end in just a few days' time, on March 4, when Des Lewis reveals to a pantingly anticipatory world who the author is for each of the anthology's stories. That means you still have a few days to enter the big-bux Identify the Cone Zero Authors Contest. Writing about the contest entries to date, Des says: "The best so far is 4 guesses. Even a lottery-type guess could bag the winnings!" So why not try your chances? I think part of the prize is eternal fame and glory, although I could be wrong on this.
The third "review" came to me via the Project Aon site. Project Aon is the major mouthpiece for the fans of Joe Dever's Lone Wolf multiple-choice adventure gamebooks, which sold about a billion copies back in the days of yore. I was lucky enough to be commissioned to write the dozen novels (strictly, eleven novels and one story collection) that went alongside Joe's gamebooks; although I'd published I think a couple of novels (and a bucketload of nonfiction books) before then, I still regard the writing of The Legends of Lone Wolf as somehow my apprenticeship, and with great fondness.
Whatever, this isn't so much a review as a query, containing a bunch of kind stuff, that came out of the blue to Project Aon, whose Jonathan Blake was kind enough to forward it on:
I read a book when I was a teen that I seem to have misplaced or lost in the house somewhere . . . I got it at a used book store for like $1. But it was one of the most incredible books I've read. I think it was Sword of the Sun, and I can't find any information about this book ANYWHERE!
What a fine and excellent critic their correspondent is!
