I'm all a-quiver.  I checked the tracking -- my copy was in Albuquerque last
night...

On 9/27/07, Pamela McCorduck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> They're probably checking to make sure you're old enough to read the
> X-rated parts.
>
>
> On Sep 27, 2007, at 8:00 AM, Douglas Roberts wrote:
>
> > Mine has not yet arrived. I *Know* I ordered mine before Stephen did.
> >
> > --Doug
> >
> > --
> > Doug Roberts, RTI International
> > [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> >  [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> > 505-670-8195 - Cell
> >
> > On 9/26/07, Pamela McCorduck <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > wrote:Merci!
> >>
> >>
> >> 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
> >> >>
> >> >>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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> >> >>
> >> >>
> >> >
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> >>
> >> "A Messiah who actually arrives is no good to anybody.A hope
> >> fulfilled is already half a disappointment."
> >>
> >> Michael Chabon, "The Yiddish
> >> Policemen's Union"
> >>
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> "A Messiah who actually arrives is no good to anybody.  A hope
> fulfilled is already half a disappointment."
>
>                                 Michael Chabon, "The Yiddish Policemen's
> Union"
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