It sounds like you've gotten a used copy that was autographed by the author for its original owner. It happens.
I read a novel in a day!
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To me, they're two sides of the same coin. One uses science to tell stories that couldn't be told in a modern setting. The other uses magic (the Force, the One Power, etc) to do the same. One has aliens from different planet, one has different races from the same planet. I think it's one of the reasons that Star Wars works for so many people - Hyperspace/lightspeed is as much magic to us as the Force is. Battlestar Galactica used the same "this has all happened before" concept that the Wheel of Time is based around, which I'm sure comes from older mythology.
I've got a signed copy of that book as well.
Apparantly, according to the publisher, all copies are signed. I hope for Mr. Gerrold's sake that it was a small press run.
Why would they have to be the same for people to read them both? Plenty of people read, watch, or listen to things in multiple different genres, like, say, mystery and comedy, or classical and jazz.
On a couple of message boards devoted to SF&F literature, there are many people who won't read SF if they like fantasy and vice versa. I really don't know that many people who read Wheel of Time and Robert Heinlein.
My slipcased copy is signed by both Gerrold and the cover artist, Gary Lippincott. The signature lines identify Gerrold as "Guest of Honor, Boskone 44" and Lipincott as "Official Artist, Boskone 44". Is your copy like that?
Now I wish it was numbered too.
Check the copyright page, that's where the limitation information and number is. I have #63.
Yeah. And it seems to me that as time goes on more sci-fi takes on elements of fantasy, not that that's a bad thing.
I've read a lot of Heinlein and a lot of other SF, and I've read a fair amount of fantasy (Tolkien, Lewis, Dunsany, Howard, Moorcock, etc). But I have no interest at all in The Wheel of Time. Reading Jordan's Conan novels was more than enough. An epic fantasy several times as long as LOTR? No, thanks.
That's the recency illusion. There's always been SF that's been liberally blended with fantasy elements. How would you classify H. P. Lovecraft, say? Okay, horror, but it's horror that's hard to pinhole as either fantasy (elder gods and mystical forces) or SF (ancient aliens building cities in Antarctica and whatnot), because it completely blurs the lines between them. Then there's Edgar Rice Burroughs's books -- John Carter's adventures take place on Mars, but he gets there literally by wishing. They're pure sword and sorcery that happens to be set on other planets or in the Earth's core. Modern SF tends to blur fantasy and SF elements because it's taking its cue from Star Wars, but Star Wars was blatantly riffing on Burroughs and Flash Gordon.
My slipcased copy is signed by both Gerrold and the cover artist, Gary Lippincott. The signature lines identify Gerrold as "Guest of Honor, Boskone 44" and Lipincott as "Official Artist, Boskone 44". Is your copy like that?
Now I wish it was numbered too.
Check the copyright page, that's where the limitation information and number is. I have #63.
Oh! Neat! Never noticed that before. I have #266.
Apparently there's 1000 copies total. I don't have Gary's signature or any indication of where/when the book was signed. Apparently only the first 175 copies were slipcased and signed by Gary as well as David. Oh well, it's still cool to have David's autograph.
Personal preference and all, but I think it's kinda funny to be on a board talking about continuing stories with literally hundreds of books, and think that a fantasy epic of around a dozen books is long. I hated the LOTR because of the way it was written. Same with DRG3's books. Length doesn't bother me. I've read and re-read WoT (currently on the third read-through in anticipation of the next book in November), read the New Jedi Order twice through - shorter books, but more of them than WoT - and have read a crud-load of Star Trek books.
Apples and oranges. It's like saying hey, you watched hundreds of Trek episodes, what's so crazy about watching a single movie that's 48 hours long?
See, and I find it more like saying, you watched hundreds of Trek episodes, why not watch this other tv show with tighter plotting, say BSG or Lost. If you don't like it, no amount of convincing is going to make you like the other show. And, to take the Lost analogy further, you saw Alias, and decided you don't like JJ, so Lost is out for you, which is fine. I wasn't trying to knock you, or convince you to delve into WoT. I was just saying I found it funny
I've just read the last book- in a day again.
This was one of the best Trek Novels and sci fi stories I've ever read. I could see this is a movie as it was so well produced and encompassing of all the characters. A brilliant backstory to the origins of the Borg.
I'm a bit worried that I've spoilt it for the next novel I read. it's going to take a lot to beat Destiny. I still don't get the destiny title though. What was the destiny?
This was one of the best Trek Novels and sci fi stories I've ever read. I could see this is a movie as it was so well produced and encompassing of all the characters. A brilliant backstory to the origins of the Borg.
I'm a bit worried that I've spoilt it for the next novel I read. it's going to take a lot to beat Destiny. I still don't get the destiny title though. What was the destiny?
I thought "Destiny" was meant as a reference to the Borg/Federation conflict. A full-scale invasion was inevitable ever since "Q Who" (or perhaps "Regeneration"). From that time on they were destined to meet in one final all or nothing battle. Also I guess it was the destiny of the Columbia crew to begat the Borg, and their captain to end them.
Its better than being called Bacon Lettuce and Tomato
Wow we have actual published writers on here! Thats cool.
There are several authors floating around here, as well as people associated with the television series.
Pretty much the only novels I've ever really read in a single day have been Trek novels. The newer ones are a pretty good size, but some of the older books are 3-4 hour reads at best, barely a couple hundred pages.
I didn't get that from the novel. It's weird that Destiny is not hinted at more or explained better. I don't think the word Destiny would be a good word to describe something ominous approaching. It usually has a more positive meaning.
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