[bksvol-discuss] Re: New Submission - Finally

I've seen the books--was totally unable to help Amy in
any way. Yes, it was a lot of dedicated work on her
part, and I hope a careful and dedicated sci fi fan
will do her careful scan justice. She's careful, so
the validation should be easy.

Cindy

--- Evan Reese <mentat1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Jeepers! That sounds like a lot of dedicated work! I
> can't validate it, too 
> many other prior obligations, but I'll definitely
> pick it up when it gets 
> into the collection.
> 
> Thanks for conscientiously doing this difficult job.
> 
> Evan
> 
>   ----- Original Message ----- 
>   From: Amy Goldring Tajalli
>   To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>   Sent: Sunday, August 12, 2007 6:12 PM
>   Subject: [bksvol-discuss] New Submission - Finally
> 
> 
>   Hello everyone,
> 
>   I just submitted Alfred Bester's Virtual
> Unrealities a collection of 17 
> short stories which will challenge any reader, even
> those who are used to 
> modern science fiction. Bester's characters speak
> more languages than most 
> of us know or even recognize but he knows that, I
> assume, as we don't need 
> to know most of what they are saying - only that
> they are speaking in many 
> languages and, mostly, in clich� phrases.  Often
it
> is enough to know that 
> someone is speaking to 3 different people in 3
> different languages to know 
> that  the female has show her brilliance as a
> hostess.  The story "The Pi 
> Man"  may drive some reader's crazy but if you have
> patience the meaning 
> comes clear and you may be as fascinated as I was 50
> years ago and still am. 
> But also frustrated.
> 
>   I included "scanner's notes" at the beginning of
> the book [on a blank 
> page] as an introduction to explain the sentences
> which might end up being a 
> bunch of meaningless words on the left margin or
> which might be as the are 
> in the book - in interesting shapes so that the
> shape of the sentence is 
> what it means. One character had lunch in Paris and
> the sentence that tells 
> us that is in the shape of the Eiffel tower. 
> Because of that, the reader 
> may not read it in a way that makes sense so
> throughout the book I had notes 
> describing what was not visible and putting the
> sentences so that they could 
> imagine the shape and understand the image Bester
> has created.
> 
>   I hope when it is available many of you will read
> it and if you like it 
> please let me know. And if you did not like my notes
> please tell me that 
> also.
> 
>   Amy
>   omsm
> 
>   agoldringtajalli@xxxxxxxxxxxxx 
> 



       
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