This just in

[kinzel]

So, after a couple of rough days, something to smile about crosses the email boundary:

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Phobos Impact
For Immediate Release:
Contact: John Ordover


FIRST PRINTING OF SWORD OF ORION OUT OF STOCK!

The upstart science fiction and fantasy line Phobos Impact (an  imprint of
Phobos Books) is pleased to announce that they are out of stock on  their
8,000 copy trade paperback first printing of SWORD OF ORION: Beneath 
Strange Skies Book One by Sharon Lee and Steve Miller. The five-book 
series from the creators of the Liaden (r) Universe tells the story of 
sixteen year old Jerel Telemon and her companions as they gate from  world
to world in their struggle to stop the evil Oligarchy from regaining its 
domination of the galaxy.

"Think of it as Star Wars meets The  Belgariad," Editor-in-Chief John
Ordover said.  "Alternative-worlds  said that  'Brilliant 
characterizations, exotic cultures and thrilling chase scenes make SWORD
OF  ORION a book that is destined to become a classic' and who am I to
disagree with  them?" Ordover added

Sword of Orion is one of four Fall Launch titles from  Phobos Impact; the
other titles in Phobos Impact's Fall Launch are All  Eve's Hallows by Dean
Wesley Smith, Dragon America by Mike Resnick, and Blood  and Roses by Ann
Tonsor Zeddies. 

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Meanwhile, the planning for COSine picks up steam:
if you can be in Colorado Springs in mid-January you can stop by and say hello. We're hoping for enough of a presence from the Friends of Liad to have a party, or at least a breakfast...

Comments

[debmats.livejournal.com]

yay!!!

I'm going and I think anhayla is going!

Congrats!

[missingvolume.livejournal.com]

Nice to hear that they are selling quite briskly.

[threeringedmoon.livejournal.com]

Breakfast (or a party) would be cool. I should be there....

[pbray.livejournal.com]

Congrats! Makes me glad I was able to pick up my copy from Larry Smith at WFC.

[oberon.livejournal.com]

Ok, that brief description makes it sound like 'Stargate'. Maybe it's just me.

[kinzel.livejournal.com]

Stargate? Ummm ... hmmm. That's probably because the word "gate" is in the title of Stargate and gates are mentioned in the one blurb.

I think we've only seen one episode of Stargate, so that's not our source... Andre Norton, Robert Heinlein, and CJ Cherryh, among many others, wowed us both as kids -- with stargates -- and I think that's what we were after. By the time something hit TV pr the movies it's usually an old idea.

[barsukthom.livejournal.com]

HoopLah!
I thought it read like Andre Norton. This is good!

[mbarker.livejournal.com]

Five book series! So the new golden standard is quintologies?

Sounds good.