On Sep 26, 2007, at 10:09 PM, Stephen Guerin wrote:
> The Amazon truck came today. Congratulations, Pamela!!
>
> -S
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Pamela McCorduck
>> Sent: Thursday, September 13, 2007 9:55 AM
>> To: The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group
>> Subject: Re: [FRIAM] Shameless self-promotion
>>
>> One of our complexity scientists in this novel claims she
>> plays the piano passably.
>>
>>
>> On Sep 13, 2007, at 10:40 AM, Douglas Roberts wrote:
>>
>>
>>
>> What?! No saxophone-playing complexity scientists?
>> FRIAM has at *least* two of those...
>>
>> Hmph. See if *I* read your novel.
>>
>> ;-}
>>
>> Seriously, congrats, Pamela!
>>
>> --Doug
>>
>> --
>> Doug Roberts, RTI International
>> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>>[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>> 505-455-7333 - Office
>> 505-670-8195 - Cell
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>> On 9/13/07, Pamela McCorduck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>
>>
>> released. The authors' copies arrived last
>> night. Set mostly in Santa
>> Fe, though parts of it are set in Frankfurt and
>> Munich, Germany and two
>> of the major characters come from New York City.
>>
>> Here's the copy blurb:
>>
>> An internationally renowned scientist who fears
>> she's taken one
>> scientific risk too many; a distinguished
>> archaeologist who's haunted
>> by taking too few; a world famous financier
>> who's lost everything
>> except his money; an art gallery owner with a
>> heartbreaking burden; a
>> fugitive filmmaker; the head of a battered
>> women's shelter--these are
>> some of the people who find themselves at the
>> end of the Old Santa Fe
>> Trail at the end of the 20th century. Chance
>> has brought them from all
>> over to beautiful legendary Santa Fe, New
>> Mexico, where they shape,
>> illuminate, and even deform each other's lives
>> unexpectedly, as if on
>> the very edge of chaos.
>>
>> This edge of chaos, a scientific term for that
>> slender territory
>> between frozen predictabililty and hopeless
>> disorder, is a dangerously
>> unstable place. Learning and change can only
>> happen there, but always
>> under threat of sliding back to frozen
>> order--or over into the chaotic
>> abyss. And Santa Fe's sons and daughters, even
>> now, keep a precarious
>> foothold on The Edge of Chaos, bringing their
>> own pasts and their
>> city's rich history into an uncertain but
>> exhilarating future.
>>
>> Available on Amazon:
>>
>>
>> http://www.amazon.com/Edge-Chaos-Pamela-McCorduck/dp/0865345783/
>> ref=sr_1_2/102-5640244-6038511?ie=UTF
>>
>> Sorry for the shameless self-promotion, but
>> getting a book out is about
>> like having a baby, except it takes longer.
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> "A little patience, and we shall see the reign
>> of witches pass over,
>> their spells dissolve, and the people,
>> recovering their true sight,
>> restore their government to its true
>> principles. It is true that in
>> the meantime we are suffering deeply in spirit,
>> and incurring the
>> horrors of war and long oppressions of enormous
>> public debt...If the
>> game runs sometimes against us at home we must
>> have patience till luck
>> turns, and then we shall have the opportunity
>> of winning back the
>> principles we have lost, for this is a game
>> where principles are at
>> stake."
>>
>>
>> Thomas Jefferson
>>
>>
>>
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