From: Terry W. Colvin (fortean1@mindspring.com)
Date: Tue Jul 02 2002 - 12:29:44 MDT
Here's the information on how to order a signed copy of _The Ghost in
the Universe_ from the bookstore I'm doing a signing at next Monday.
Go to
Click on my book, either on the main page or off the events page.
Then click "order" and then "check out." Fill in customer information
and hit "continue." Then, in the "Delivery Instructions" page, you'll
find a "comments" field on the left of your screen. There, state that
you want a signed copy. And carry on with the rest.
Or, you can call 415-441-6670 and take it from there.
It should come to $34 plus tax if you're a Californian.
--Taner--
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Subj # 2: Publish and perish, literally?
Sheila Thomas wrote:
>
> I have started to read Taner's book. It's fascinating, and I'm relieved
> to report that it isn't over my head so far 8^) But it's disturbing to
> me that my emotional response thus far (*not* cognitive, just how I
> feel reading it) is fear. Fear for the author's safety. I keep
> wondering how anyone, let alone someone who lives in Missouri, had the
> courage to publish a book like this now. I wouldn't.
Surely it isn't that bad?
First of all, few people are likely to read the book. Though I'd like
it to be otherwise, this isn't going to sell more than two-three
thousand, and even that may be optimistic. It's not going to make it
on the fundamentalists' radar screen enough to offend anyone.
If Christian fundies become aware of it, and are pissed -- though why
they should single mine out among all books skeptical about their
beliefs I don't know -- they're hardly the sort who'd gun me down in
the street. The worst thing that can happen is nasty academic
politics by people in my university who are not happy about harboring
an outspoken infidel. I refuse to worry about that.
In a Muslim country I'd be more concerned, and being gunned down is a
more real possibility. But even in, say, Turkey, I wouldn't worry too
much. Intellectual skepticism does not always draw Islamist ire; it
depends on the immediate political situation. And there too, I doubt
a book like mine would make it onto fundie radar in the first place.
Taner Edis -- < http://www2.truman.edu/~edis/ >
It was a dark and stormy night when Leviathan-sized waves
pitched Malcom overboard from the small schooner and he found
himself clinging to a cider barrel in the tempest-tossed sea,
to be borne thereon to a barren atoll leagues off the main
shipping lanes, a sandy dot in the ocean whose only life was a
leafy shrub with a pulpy substance inside its stems, which,
with the contents of the life-saving barrel, long since gone
sour, provided Malcom's sustenance for the next months until a
search party discovered him, not emaciated and sere as one
would expect but literally full of pith and vinegar.
-- Jack Eilar (Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest entry)
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