Comments on: The Big Idea: Jim C. Hines

By: Geoffrey Kidd

Geoffrey Kidd — Mon, 12 Jan 2009 17:24:02 +0000

The eBook showed up at Fictionwise this morning.

http://www.fictionwise.com/eBooks/eBook78957.htm

DRM-infested formats, which will cut into the sales, but it is available.

By: Badger

Badger — Mon, 12 Jan 2009 00:27:02 +0000

Thanks a lot,

I’ll spend some time at SurLaLune I believe. If I’m lucky I might find the Cinderella version where a fish in a well helps her :) somewhere on the net.

Maria Tatar seems not to have made it into my library in Uppsala, Sweden, unfortunately. Amazon may solve that problem..

By: Jeff Hentosz

Jeff Hentosz — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 16:27:03 +0000

Badger@44 & others: Go to your library and search for Maria Tatar's name. She has worked on books like Grimm's Grimmest, The Annotated Brothers Grimm, The Annotated Classic Fairy Tales, and Off with Their Heads! Fairy Tales and the Culture of Childhood. Plenty there you're looking for.

By: Jim C. Hines

Jim C. Hines — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 12:34:25 +0000

Badger,

I have some fairy tale links at http://www.sff.net/people/jchines/Princess/Links.htm

I found the SurLaLune web site to be a wonderful resource for the older tales.

By: Badger

Badger — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 09:35:28 +0000

But where do you get hold of all these old, dark versions of fairy tales? I can only find the revised ones.

(The book is on my “to buy” list btw)

By: HydrogenGuy

HydrogenGuy — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 07:31:35 +0000

That’s the problem with Whatever. It’s like Scalzi is murdering us with joy.

By: Andrew Fedge

Andrew Fedge — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 04:41:12 +0000

I found myself reading the web preview and becoming more and more “awww, yeah, I GOTTA read this now.”

And then I found myself on Amazon.com ordering just about everything this author has written. Which hopefully should be here by Friday.

I blame YOU, Scalzi.

By: David Harmon

David Harmon — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 03:04:07 +0000

Hey, John — there’s one point you and Jim did not mention in your review or discussion…

I don’t have either the money or the shelf space to buy hardcovers, so, I was glumly expecting to wait most of a year to get it. But as it happens, I was just in Barnes and Noble, and discovered that the book isn’t just “new on the shelves”, it’s out in paperback! (Naturally, I grabbed it!)

By: Alvrodul

Alvrodul — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 00:46:39 +0000

The glimpse of this book is – tasty, you might say. I am definitely going to buy it. And _Red’s Tale_, too. And if I can’t get them in the shops here in Oslo, there is always Amazon…
Do you think a more portable format may become available? I buy piles of stuff at Fictionwise (prc/mobi format) and would love to see these as well!

By: HydrogenGuy

HydrogenGuy — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 22:09:21 +0000

Oh man. I need this book. It doesn’t seem to be out in Canada ’til the 13th though?