I just read through what is published up to now. It has been a quite interesting read and I am looking forward to see how it turns out..<br>There are a few small portions I would like to comment on. <br>You overdo it a bit when Alex is already building such elaborate toys with the means he is expected to find at the home of a lawyer.. This is one of the parts that hit me as most unrealistic, even in a SF-Story...
<br>I think the strength of the story is being very close to the real now, build on that.<br>On the part of publishing it this way, I am someone who likes to read through good books in one seating, maybe it would have been a better ride if I had catched up after the end of the story, without having to wait to long..
<br>But as an experiment I really think this is a great idea.. Its reminding me of the early start of novels like Dickens who was also published in newspapers at first... Or of Webcomics like Mega Tokyo..<br>If you can use the chance this has, good luck.
<br>Just keep an eye on the internal consistency. Dont get to fantastic to soon. Keeps up the suspense a bit^^ <br>Whatever, thanks for a good read.<br> <br>Jonathan<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 6/10/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">
Damien Broderick</b> <<a href="mailto:thespike@satx.rr.com">thespike@satx.rr.com</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin-top: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-bottom: 0; margin-left: 0; margin-left: 0.80ex; border-left-color: #cccccc; border-left-width: 1px; border-left-style: solid; padding-left: 1ex">
At 10:48 AM 6/10/2007 -0700, Jef Allbright wrote:<br><br>>I'm ... frustrated by the inefficiency<br>>and "gappiness" of the experience, like listening to a good piece of<br>>music in short segments<br>
<br>Yes, I feared that might be the case. at least for some readers<br>(luckily I've heard the contrary as well). It's hard for me to<br>evaluate it, but I do read through each segment as it appears, and<br>I'm pretty sure I'd be irritated by the lags. I'm glad we made sure
<br>that COSMOS agreed to leave all the chapters accumulating there.<br><br>>I've nearly persuaded myself to wait and read it when completely<br>>released<br><br>That'd be fine with us. I understand that the on-line editor is
<br>seeing an interesting hit pattern, in which many readers appear to<br>trail behind and catch up in flurries of episodes. If today's chapter<br>shows N hits immediately, it will accumulate to 3N or 4N a few weeks later.
<br><br>(By the way: although I'm the fiction editor of the glossy pop sci<br>print magazine COSMOS, I didn't buy this book from myself, which<br>would be tacky; it was acquired by the original on-line editor and<br>
the chief editor [my boss], and edited/formatted for the web by the<br>current on-line editor.)<br><br>>a price I'm willing to pay to keep up with your<br>>writing.<br><br>Well, mostly Barbara's writing, tweaked and edited by me, but we
<br>worked out the storyline closely together, starting in Australia and<br>continuing internationally by email and finally combining forces<br>again here in the States. Some stretches are largely by me, but I'll<br>never tell which. :) Strictly speaking, it would be more just to
<br>give the top billing to Barbara Lamar, but publishers like to keep<br>the better-known name up the front.<br><br>Damien Broderick<br><br>_______________________________________________<br>extropy-chat mailing list<br>
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