Jo Walton ([info]papersky) wrote,
@ 2008-07-18 02:57:00
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Bits and Pieces
I've been dashing about hither and yon, and will continue to do so for the next little while.

Ha'Penny is available in paperback, it's been spotted in the wild in Montreal by [info]rysmiel so it's probably all over the US. If you were waiting for it, you need wait no longer.

My story Tradition had an honourable mention in the Dozois Year's Best, (thanks, [info]ericmarin!) which is pretty amazing, especially as this was a "you saw it here first" story.

Marcus Rowland ([info]ffutures) has finished the RPG of Tooth and Claw and it'll be out as soon as I finish reading through it and send him the minor corrections. (I'd have finished it by now except that I forget to take it on the train up to Lancaster.) And here is a review of Tooth and Claw.

And a couple of positive Farthing reviews, the nauseating brilliance of it is the familiarity and I almost literally couldn't put this down and a comparison between it and Buchanan's latest offering.

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[info]wild_irises
2008-07-18 07:16 am UTC (link)
Did you see this one of Ha'Penny?

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[info]gwynnega
2008-07-18 09:33 pm UTC (link)
Yep, I just got the paperback of Ha'Penny from Amazon.com! Really enjoying it.

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[info]caulkhead
2008-07-19 09:44 pm UTC (link)
Ha'penny's out in the UK too, if anyone's looking for it. I found a copy of the paperback today, in Croydon of all places - I was expecting to have to go into the big Forbidden Planet shop in London to find it, so I was really pleased.

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[info]papersky
2008-07-20 07:04 am UTC (link)
Well, it shouldn't be. This is part of why it's proved impossible to sell them to a UK publisher -- bookshops illegally import the US edition.

Oh well. I'm glad you've got it anyway.

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[info]caulkhead
2008-07-20 09:51 am UTC (link)
Oh. So, for future reference, how does one legally get hold of it in the UK? Amazon?

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[info]papersky
2008-07-21 07:47 am UTC (link)
Yes, or any other online source that ships to individuals. Come to that, FP and other small specialist SF shops aren't exactly selling it legally but they don't do any harm, not enough of them. It's Waterstones getting it that are naughty. But don't worry about it, it makes me grumpy because I'd have liked a UK edition, but it isn't in any way your fault.

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[info]pdlloyd
2008-07-19 10:02 pm UTC (link)
My story Tradition had an honourable mention in the Dozois Year's Best

Yay! Congratulations.

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[info]aedifica
2008-07-21 01:20 am UTC (link)
Hi! You don't know me, but I just finished reading Farthing and I was impressed! Within fifteen minutes of finishing it I had first emailed someone who was one of my Jewish Studies profs to recommend it to her, then called my sister to tell her to read it too. Fifteen minutes after that, I had posted to LJ about it.

Thanks for finding such a good way to afflict the comfortable. I tend to be somewhat set in my ways, prone to assume that nothing can be done to change the (admittedly lamentable) trends I see, but I read Farthing today and Little Brother less than a week ago, and I'm much more stirred up now. (To be honest, it may take a little more shaking to get me to actually do much, but I'm farther along than I was.)

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[info]papersky
2008-07-21 07:50 am UTC (link)
"In order for evil to triumph, it is only necessary that good men do nothing." Edmund Burke as quoted by John Brunner.

That was very much in my mind when I was writing those books.

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[info]aedifica
2008-07-21 02:03 pm UTC (link)
And in mine as I was reading it. And this morning, I found something I can do: I'm joining the ACLU! It's a a good first step: small enough that I'm comfortable making it, but pointed the right direction.

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[info]klages
2008-07-22 06:41 am UTC (link)
Hey -

I've read 'em all, loved 'em, and want to see you at World Con.

Email me offline (offLJ?) to make plans? (ellen@ellenklages.com)

--E

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[info]david_ripley
2008-07-25 02:53 pm UTC (link)
I read Farthing as a Tor.com free offering and loved it. My admiration for Jo Walton cannot be measured, unlike the Coca-Cola (anywhere from 8 to 16 fluid ounces, by my reckoning) whose precipitation precipitated it. That admiration has grown thanks to this novel, a "cozy" mystery with some distinctly non-cozy alternate-history underpinnings and an unreasonably charming viewpoint character.

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