Mini-Letters and Procrastination Poll

[ase]

Dear everyone: please encourage me to do my homework. Which does require a computer. Curses.

Dear book junkies: please update me on what Steven Brust, Kage Baker, and Rosemary Kirstein have been up to. Also, when's the last book in Kim Stanley Robinson's "Science in the Capitol" trilogy coming out?

Dear Cherryh fans: according to her online journal-ish thing, Cherryh's working on the Cyteen sequel again. (Best way to check for yourself: use a text function to search on the obvious.) Join me in laying odds it will see publication in this decade.

Actually...
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Homework. Evil. But necessary. Sadness, despair, gnashing of teeth, and possibly ripping the ethernet cable out of the lab computer.

Edit: poll error. Obviously, scale should be one to ten, not one to five as in question.

Comments

[ase.livejournal.com]

Yes, I'm answering my own post. Because I want to say Grant, who's supposed to be all the good supportive things in the world, but I really want to give a shoutout to Yanni Schwartz, who is an angry loud scientist-bossing administrator, and is sick of the Warrick problem, and still tries to do right by Justin, and Grant, and Jordan. Yanni is one of the B-list characters, and is totally a B-list personality in Reseune, but you get the impression that when you give a problem or responsibility to Yanni, he's not going to let it go until it's resolved or he's dead.

And did I mention the loud scientist-bossing? I could do a whole post on my love for level-headed fictional scientists who know that something is really not right and they have to understand and fix it. And this is where I slide into Mars trilogy reminiscences if I don't stop myself.

(This is just turning into a long backwards slide into Novels I Have Loved, Ages 23 and Backwards, isn't it. Ngh!)

[countrycousin.livejournal.com]

Yes, both Grant and Yanni are great characters, but we don't get to see enough of Yanni. I chose Ari II for standard reasons. (wipes saliva off face. Which I suppose is half Pavlovian and half drool)

Could one do a Cyteen sequel? I'm hoping for a Tristan sequel. It sounded like she had one written - where is it??

Get to work.

[ann-leckie.livejournal.com]

Ask and you shall receive--

http://www.amazon.com/Fortress-Ice-C-J-Cherryh/dp/0380979047/sr=8-2/qid=1161312067/ref=sr_1_2/102-6968429-7806541?ie=UTF8&s=books

Tristan sequel merely days away.

Me, I'm waiting for the next Foreigner, in February. And I think it's a pretty sure thing that the Cyteen sequel will see print this decade. More of a gut feeling than anything else.

[countrycousin.livejournal.com]

I owe you.

I've been checking her site every couple of months for years.

[ann-leckie.livejournal.com]

Always glad to help. :)