Yeah, I meant free download. I wound up reading "Empty Spaces." I kept thinking, this can't be right. For one thing, it's a novelette, and I couldn't figure out why a short story nominee wouldn't end.
For the other, well, let's just say that any review of it would begin, "Michael Burstein is apparently an alien who has never seen a real object that is called fiction but somehow came across a technical manual whose instructions for writing fiction he's ticking off one by one as he moves through the manuscript." On Apr 3, 12:30 am, Dave Henn <[email protected]> wrote: > Thank you, Steve. The link is what SFWA provided, so when I saw an embedded > text, I assumed it was the actual nominated text instead of a different > story. So thank you for calling attention to the issue. > > It turns out Burnstein refused to have the story available for free, > apparently hoping that folks would be willing to buy the whole collection of > stories for the one nominated story. Well, for those who are willing to pay > something to get the story, but are not willing to pay the $17 or so for the > hard copy, an electronic version is available for $5.00. I'll make a note of > this on the website, too, but here is the > link:http://scifi.drivethrustuff.com/product_info.php?products_id=79159&fi... > > <http://scifi.drivethrustuff.com/product_info.php?products_id=79159&fi...> > David > > > > On Fri, Apr 2, 2010 at 10:55 PM, SteveC <[email protected]> wrote: > > The link given for the Michael Burstein short story nominee is wrong. > > The nominee is called "I Remember the Future." Unfortunately the link > > goes to a story called "Empty Spaces" which is a story in the > > collection I Remember the Future. Both names are used in the linked > > attachment, which is probably where the confusion came from. As far as > > I can tell the nominated story was original to the collection and I > > haven't been able to find a legal download elsewhere. > > > On Apr 2, 2:51 pm, Jonathan Sherwood <[email protected]> > > wrote: > > > It's time for our annual Nebula discussion meeting! David Henn has kindly > > > pulled together the list of Nebula nominees for this year, including > > audio > > > versions for those who like to read on the go. We'll argue over the > > stories > > > and at the end take a vote on which ones we think will do well and won't > > do > > > well. > > > > We'll mostly talk about the short stories, but feel free to read and > > discuss > > > the novels and novelettes as well. > > > > See you all Tuesday at 7:00 at Barnes & Noble! > > > > -- > > > Jonathan Sherwoodwww.jonathansherwood.comwww.r-spec.org > > > -- > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > > "R-SPEC: The Rochester Speculative Literature Association" group. > > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > > [email protected]<r-spec%[email protected]> > > . > > For more options, visit this group at > >http://groups.google.com/group/r-spec?hl=en.- Hide quoted text - > > - Show quoted text - -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "R-SPEC: The Rochester Speculative Literature Association" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/r-spec?hl=en.
