In other news

[ksmith]

...I noticed a few new names in my Friends list over the last week or two. Introduce yourselves, if you have a mind to. In any case, thanks for stopping by--I try to keep thing as as interesting as possible considering I'm wrapped up in job/house/dogs/book.

In otherworldly news, they've discovered a 10th planet, which I think is really cool:

http://science.nasa.gov/headlines/y2005/29jul_planetx.htm?list27412

Comments

[excessor.livejournal.com]

Hello!

My partner, dr_scott, introduced me to your books; I just finished the last one, Contact Imminent. I saw in a blurb that you have an idomeni pronunciation guide, so I went to the website and from there discovered that you have an LJ presence as well. After reading a few posts, I decided to add you to my friends list.

I'm a technical documentation manager at a high tech company in San Jose, California. I grew up in Texas and Pennsylvania, but I've lived in San Jose area of northern California for twenty years.

I'm attracted to your writing for a few reasons. One is that you write dialog very well. It's believable, conversational, and has a sense of reality that is difficult to execute well. I also love the themes of transformation and transcendence, and the way you work them—as something happening to Jani as well as something observed in others by Jani—makes me want to read more. In a more general sense, as a fan of science fiction, I like to see a vision of the future in all its glory and squalor.

I hope you don't mind that I've put you on my friends list.

[alfreda89.livejournal.com]

Does this mean that Charon has been demoted, and is no longer the 10th planet? It was small, but it has an orbit around the sun.

Sometimes I feel like it takes me so long to get news I care about, that it might as well be the middle ages. Welcome to the Info Glut Age...

Charon and Sedna

[leemc85615.livejournal.com]

I believe Charon is the moon of Pluto. Sedna is the newly discovered "planet". There is quite a controversy over what constitutes a "planet" with one camp wanting to romove planetary status from Pluto.

[barbarienne.livejournal.com]

Howdy! I came stumbling in by way of... gee, I can't remember who, now.

Anyway, I'm actually the text design manager on your books over here at Eos. :-)