{"id":46,"date":"2007-08-19T19:53:00","date_gmt":"2007-08-20T03:53:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rifters.com\/crawl\/?p=46"},"modified":"2007-08-19T19:53:00","modified_gmt":"2007-08-20T03:53:00","slug":"you-take-what-you-can-get","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rifters.com\/crawl\/?p=46","title":{"rendered":"You Take What You Can Get"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Snagged from some online promotional pdf from Tor; looks like the trade paper is officially set for March ’08. The lurid red border seems to be absent this time around, and the title font actually looks quite cool; one can only hope they gave it a different colour than the split-pea soup tint of the hardback. Unfortunately the Buck Rogers spaceship is still in evidence, but I’ll take what I can get.<\/p>\n

XFire has posted last week’s official chat transcript here<\/a>; you don’t even need to be a member to check it out. I apologise for the various misspellings. My fingers were going a mile a minute and haste made me sloppy. (It’s supposed to be “trouser eel<\/i>“, for example, not “trouser ell”.)<\/p>\n

Here’s a few more questions that didn’t make it on there:<\/p>\n

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  1. M\u00d6\u05d8\u03b6\u0454\u044f: Peter Watts, in your book Blindsight, you wrote I really liked that opening sentence, were you inspired by someone to write this ?<\/if><\/i> I was, actually. Someone I was involved with for a few months during the copyedit stage: a very smart, possibly-borderline sociopath pharmawhore (I mean, let’s face it, you pretty much have<\/i> to have sociopathic tendencies to thrive in the biotech industry these days) who happened to be a masochist. It was one of those things you know are doomed going in \u2014 you know you’re going to destroy the friendship you had for the sake of a few electric moments \u2014 but you do it anyway because those moments are worth it. (They were, too. Ah well.)<\/li>\n
  2. Vanderdecken: Peter Watts, what provoked you to describe yourself as a ‘reformed’ marine biologist?<\/i> “Reformed” sounded better than “failed”.<\/li>\n
  3. LightSol: Do you get high or drunk to get ideas?<\/i><\/li>\n
  4. LightSol: Do you get blanks while writing a book and feel a need for marijuana or any other mind affecting drug?<\/i><\/li>\n
  5. Xfire Moderator: Lightsol, please refrain from asking those questions.<\/i> No, no, that’s okay, really. Being drunk or high has never given me ideas \u2014 or at least, they never gave me any ideas that proved worth putting in a story after the hangover had cleared. However, it’s given me lots of experiences<\/i>, so that I can write about being drunk or high with a certain amount of authority if the story calls for it. (For similar reasons, when reading certain unnamed sf writers, I sometimes wish they had had more sex.)<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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