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Originally Posted by DMcCunney
I know Joan (and have met Vernor.) These days, she's married to Jim Frenkel, who is currently a Senior Editor at Tor Books.
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I knew they'd divorced and she remarried, but I didn't know the guy she married was an editor. For some reason I'd gotten the impression he was another author.
Well, hopefully with Tor doing the entire Tor.com thing, they'll be able to get her backlist into e-book form, or at least put some of her short stories up online. I have most of the TPB reprints (now sadly out of print again, it seems), but it would be nice to have e-versions to point people at when I recommend her works.
And a new book would be nice, should she finish up the forthcoming "Ladysmith" (which Amazon.ca listed with a possibly overoptimistic 2013 release date, last I checked) any time soon, though given the accident I'd read that she'd been in and all, it'll be understandable if there's a long delay.
Though I suppose I could always finally read the
Heaven Belt Chronicles in the meantime if I'm feeling deprived.
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Originally Posted by nyrath
The Heaven Belt Chronicles has the innovative time system based on seconds instead of days, which makes a lot of sense if you live in asteroids instead of on planets.
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Got it in a used bookshop ages ago, but didn't get around to starting it because I wasn't sure whether I was supposed to read an earlier book in the series first; never knew the world-building was so interesting. Thanks!