Comments on: the world of mnemosynea http://www.stabenow.com/2008/01/21/the-world-of-mnemosynea The Official Dana Stabenow Web Site Thu, 07 Aug 2008 19:23:06 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5 By: Dana Stabenow » maps galore http://www.stabenow.com/2008/01/21/the-world-of-mnemosynea#comment-49791 Dana Stabenow » maps galore Fri, 18 Jul 2008 15:30:19 +0000 http://www.stabenow.com/2008/01/21/the-world-of-mnemosynea#comment-49791 [...] place I’m writing about (Ellfive, the asteroid belt, Mars, interior Alaska, southwest Alaska, Mnemosynea). Then I figure out who lives there, and then I figure out what kind of trouble they’re up [...] […] place I’m writing about (Ellfive, the asteroid belt, Mars, interior Alaska, southwest Alaska, Mnemosynea). Then I figure out who lives there, and then I figure out what kind of trouble they’re up […]

]]> By: Dana http://www.stabenow.com/2008/01/21/the-world-of-mnemosynea#comment-48901 Dana Mon, 30 Jun 2008 01:45:35 +0000 http://www.stabenow.com/2008/01/21/the-world-of-mnemosynea#comment-48901 She was veeerrrry prolific. I suppose I should read her at some point. What's her best book? She was veeerrrry prolific. I suppose I should read her at some point. What’s her best book?

]]> By: James Davis Nicoll http://www.stabenow.com/2008/01/21/the-world-of-mnemosynea#comment-48890 James Davis Nicoll Sun, 29 Jun 2008 16:51:14 +0000 http://www.stabenow.com/2008/01/21/the-world-of-mnemosynea#comment-48890 <i>Man, I wish I could say I was that well read. </i> I do read freakishly fast, which is handy since my freelancing involves reading stacks of SF, F, mystery and other manuscripts. Back in the 1970s in Ontario one took what one could get and Norton was both prolific and fairly canny in her choice of publisher (Ace and DAW, which now that I think about it makes perfect sense: Donald A. Wollheim worked for Ace before he founded DAW). Even if you avoid her fantasies, your avid SF reader of that time and place would probably end up reading at least a dozen of her books. I remember once looking in the back of an Ace MMPK of a Heinlein young adult novel and noticing that while Heinlein had ten or twelve novels listed, Norton had fifty. Man, I wish I could say I was that well read.

I do read freakishly fast, which is handy since my freelancing involves reading stacks of SF, F, mystery and other manuscripts.

Back in the 1970s in Ontario one took what one could get and Norton was both prolific and fairly canny in her choice of publisher (Ace and DAW, which now that I think about it makes perfect sense: Donald A. Wollheim worked for Ace before he founded DAW). Even if you avoid her fantasies, your avid SF reader of that time and place would probably end up reading at least a dozen of her books.

I remember once looking in the back of an Ace MMPK of a Heinlein young adult novel and noticing that while Heinlein had ten or twelve novels listed, Norton had fifty.

]]> By: Dana http://www.stabenow.com/2008/01/21/the-world-of-mnemosynea#comment-48857 Dana Fri, 27 Jun 2008 19:18:29 +0000 http://www.stabenow.com/2008/01/21/the-world-of-mnemosynea#comment-48857 Man, I wish I could say I was that well read. Nope, whatever it was you saw, unless I credited it in the text to a real person (the balloon inside a balloon is based on a design by French engineer Jacques Chaumont, for example) I somehow thought it up myself. Maybe. Back then I was reading everything I could get my hands on about science, so long as it was written in a language I could understand (I soon gave up Scientific American for Discover, for example). I have no background in the hard sciences, so I'm hesitant to take credit for anything engineering-related that happens in any of my sf. But it sure is fun to write. There's a reason we call it speculative fiction. Man, I wish I could say I was that well read. Nope, whatever it was you saw, unless I credited it in the text to a real person (the balloon inside a balloon is based on a design by French engineer Jacques Chaumont, for example) I somehow thought it up myself. Maybe. Back then I was reading everything I could get my hands on about science, so long as it was written in a language I could understand (I soon gave up Scientific American for Discover, for example). I have no background in the hard sciences, so I’m hesitant to take credit for anything engineering-related that happens in any of my sf.

But it sure is fun to write. There’s a reason we call it speculative fiction.

]]> By: James Davis Nicoll http://www.stabenow.com/2008/01/21/the-world-of-mnemosynea#comment-48850 James Davis Nicoll Fri, 27 Jun 2008 15:18:14 +0000 http://www.stabenow.com/2008/01/21/the-world-of-mnemosynea#comment-48850 When I read <i>Red Planet Run</i> back when, I noticed what appeared at the time to be a homage to Andre Norton's <i>Sargasso of Space</i>. Was that actually a homage or just independent parallel development [1]? RPR isn't much like SoS, which is why I wasn't sure if what I thought I saw was really there. 1: One example from SF might be why authors from Pournelle to McCullum to Bujold arrived at similar FTL systems for plot reasons but my favourite example is what happened when Charles Sheffield discovered that he and Clarke, writing on opposite sides of the Earth in pre-internet days, had simultaneously and independently written books about engineers with somewhat similar names, whose previous job involved building a bridge across Gibraltar, who were both building orbital towers and who both used something called Shelob in their work. When I read Red Planet Run back when, I noticed what appeared at the time to be a homage to Andre Norton’s Sargasso of Space. Was that actually a homage or just independent parallel development [1]?

RPR isn’t much like SoS, which is why I wasn’t sure if what I thought I saw was really there.

1: One example from SF might be why authors from Pournelle to McCullum to Bujold arrived at similar FTL systems for plot reasons but my favourite example is what happened when Charles Sheffield discovered that he and Clarke, writing on opposite sides of the Earth in pre-internet days, had simultaneously and independently written books about engineers with somewhat similar names, whose previous job involved building a bridge across Gibraltar, who were both building orbital towers and who both used something called Shelob in their work.

]]> By: Dana http://www.stabenow.com/2008/01/21/the-world-of-mnemosynea#comment-48832 Dana Thu, 26 Jun 2008 20:34:48 +0000 http://www.stabenow.com/2008/01/21/the-world-of-mnemosynea#comment-48832 Any place on the website would be, James, ask away. Any place on the website would be, James, ask away.

]]> By: James Davis Nicoll http://www.stabenow.com/2008/01/21/the-world-of-mnemosynea#comment-48823 James Davis Nicoll Thu, 26 Jun 2008 15:47:58 +0000 http://www.stabenow.com/2008/01/21/the-world-of-mnemosynea#comment-48823 Would this be the right place to ask a question about <i>Red Planet Run</i>? Would this be the right place to ask a question about Red Planet Run?

]]> By: Dana Stabenow » in the Antarctic http://www.stabenow.com/2008/01/21/the-world-of-mnemosynea#comment-40388 Dana Stabenow » in the Antarctic Thu, 28 Feb 2008 16:14:49 +0000 http://www.stabenow.com/2008/01/21/the-world-of-mnemosynea#comment-40388 [...] How cool is this? Okay, literally as well as figuratively, as that’s the Gerlache Strait next to Wiencke Island off the Danco Coast of the Antarctic Peninsula. In the foreground is mapmaker Cherie Northon on board the Star Princess (she made the map of Mnemosynea for me, and she will be doing a map of Kate Shugak’s Park later as well, with the help of the Danamaniacs), holding a copy of Blindfold Game she found in the ship’s library. [...] […] How cool is this? Okay, literally as well as figuratively, as that’s the Gerlache Strait next to Wiencke Island off the Danco Coast of the Antarctic Peninsula. In the foreground is mapmaker Cherie Northon on board the Star Princess (she made the map of Mnemosynea for me, and she will be doing a map of Kate Shugak’s Park later as well, with the help of the Danamaniacs), holding a copy of Blindfold Game she found in the ship’s library. […]

]]> By: Mary http://www.stabenow.com/2008/01/21/the-world-of-mnemosynea#comment-37185 Mary Wed, 30 Jan 2008 03:55:27 +0000 http://www.stabenow.com/2008/01/21/the-world-of-mnemosynea#comment-37185 Your way must be the right way! Thanks for your patient explanation. I had to listen to many of the Kate books on audio to get all the pronounciations in my head so it sounds right when I reread, and reread.... Your way must be the right way! Thanks for your patient explanation. I had to listen to many of the Kate books on audio to get all the pronounciations in my head so it sounds right when I reread, and reread….

]]> By: Dana http://www.stabenow.com/2008/01/21/the-world-of-mnemosynea#comment-37159 Dana Tue, 29 Jan 2008 17:39:59 +0000 http://www.stabenow.com/2008/01/21/the-world-of-mnemosynea#comment-37159 neh-MOH-seh-KNEE-uh. That's how I pronounce it, anyway. That would make the people who live there neh-MOH-seh-KNEE-uns. neh-MOH-seh-KNEE-uh.

That’s how I pronounce it, anyway.

That would make the people who live there

neh-MOH-seh-KNEE-uns.

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