Comments on: Publishers Weekly on The Android’s Dream http://whatever.scalzi.com/2006/09/22/publishers-weekly-on-the-androids-dream/ I FORGET WHAT EIGHT WAS FOR Fri, 10 Feb 2012 03:11:02 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Gully http://whatever.scalzi.com/2006/09/22/publishers-weekly-on-the-androids-dream/#comment-87754 Tue, 26 Sep 2006 07:55:29 +0000 http://whatever.scalzi.com/2006/09/22/publishers-weekly-on-the-androids-dream/#comment-87754 You’ll be giving me a sense of wonder, a set of stars in a package.

]]> By: SFC SKI http://whatever.scalzi.com/2006/09/22/publishers-weekly-on-the-androids-dream/#comment-87753 Mon, 25 Sep 2006 17:57:44 +0000 http://whatever.scalzi.com/2006/09/22/publishers-weekly-on-the-androids-dream/#comment-87753 Of course, since I am not attentive enough to put my bid in the right comments sectin, I don’t deserve the copy.

]]> By: SFC SKI http://whatever.scalzi.com/2006/09/22/publishers-weekly-on-the-androids-dream/#comment-87752 Mon, 25 Sep 2006 17:35:57 +0000 http://whatever.scalzi.com/2006/09/22/publishers-weekly-on-the-androids-dream/#comment-87752 If it’s not too late to make a bid, I’d the ARC because I just found out I’ll be in Iraq, and far from a bookstore, a little bit longer than I planned, and I’d like a really good read to pass the time.

Thanks to any of you who have donated books for deployed military personnel, we do appreciate it.

]]> By: Nikudada http://whatever.scalzi.com/2006/09/22/publishers-weekly-on-the-androids-dream/#comment-87751 Mon, 25 Sep 2006 14:49:47 +0000 http://whatever.scalzi.com/2006/09/22/publishers-weekly-on-the-androids-dream/#comment-87751 If I were ever to become a professor I think I would have a class devoted entirely to dissecting the meaning of book reviews. Lines like “swashbuckling satire of interstellar diplomacy” are giving me more trouble than the first couple chapters of Heidgeggers Being and Time. Seriously, I’m not joking.
Not to be cruel but my intentions, prior to reading the blog, were to go out and buy your book. Now I think I’m going to have to buy Publishers weekly.

P.S.
Try saying this 3 times fast.
“self-serving civil service”

]]> By: Martin Wagner http://whatever.scalzi.com/2006/09/22/publishers-weekly-on-the-androids-dream/#comment-87750 Sun, 24 Sep 2006 02:51:25 +0000 http://whatever.scalzi.com/2006/09/22/publishers-weekly-on-the-androids-dream/#comment-87750 I for one would never be caught dead using the adjective “effervescent” to modify “romp” in any review I’d sign my name to. Then again, I’m not an effervescent kind of guy. Then again again, the reviewer here might have been thinking of the Save-U-Lot Motel scene.

TAD gets the SFR treatment Monday…

]]> By: Josh Jasper http://whatever.scalzi.com/2006/09/22/publishers-weekly-on-the-androids-dream/#comment-87749 Sat, 23 Sep 2006 19:44:43 +0000 http://whatever.scalzi.com/2006/09/22/publishers-weekly-on-the-androids-dream/#comment-87749 ” an effervescent but intelligent romp.”

Because effervescent writers are usually…. not intelligent?

]]> By: smaur http://whatever.scalzi.com/2006/09/22/publishers-weekly-on-the-androids-dream/#comment-87748 Sat, 23 Sep 2006 18:50:28 +0000 http://whatever.scalzi.com/2006/09/22/publishers-weekly-on-the-androids-dream/#comment-87748 I think, for this post alone, I am going to go buy this book.

Oh, right. And also because you’re a good writer. And stuff.

]]> By: Gwen http://whatever.scalzi.com/2006/09/22/publishers-weekly-on-the-androids-dream/#comment-87747 Sat, 23 Sep 2006 17:13:22 +0000 http://whatever.scalzi.com/2006/09/22/publishers-weekly-on-the-androids-dream/#comment-87747 Pirates…effervescent romping…swashbuckling…dreaming androids…electric sheep…jellybeans…bacon…cat…I’m sooo confused. I thought that living in my head was weird but now I’m just glad I don’t live in our host’s.

]]> By: John Scalzi http://whatever.scalzi.com/2006/09/22/publishers-weekly-on-the-androids-dream/#comment-87746 Sat, 23 Sep 2006 16:35:53 +0000 http://whatever.scalzi.com/2006/09/22/publishers-weekly-on-the-androids-dream/#comment-87746 Yarrrr! I’m bubbly, lass!

]]> By: Janiece http://whatever.scalzi.com/2006/09/22/publishers-weekly-on-the-androids-dream/#comment-87745 Sat, 23 Sep 2006 16:31:32 +0000 http://whatever.scalzi.com/2006/09/22/publishers-weekly-on-the-androids-dream/#comment-87745 Hm…A “swashbuckling satire.” In honor of talk like a pirate day? Or is that incongruent with being effervescent?

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