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Interview: CJ Cherryh joins us this week! Her most recent book is Deceiver, the 11th book in the Foreigner series, and she explains how the original trilogy continued to grow and expand, and breaking the series down into sub-trilogies in order to make it easier for new readers to jump in.
She also talks about the Closed Circle Project, a collaborative venture with authors Lynn Abbey and Jane Fancher, where they are putting their own backlist works back in print electronically, with their own cover art and illustrations, helping each other edit works, and even continuing series that fans were still interested in reading long after the publishing houses no longer had any interest.
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Hi the Michaels,
When was the last time either of you used a mature Linux version like Ubuntu 10.04? It's as easy to play about with Mac OS X and mess it up as Windows or Ubuntu if you have a mind to do so, equally Ubuntu 10.04 works and does what it says on the can. Remember Apple only have to make Mac OS X work with their own hardware and they pre-install it as do most suppliers of Windows based PCs. Ubuntu 10.04 is a mature, stable and very functional operating system that ships with the equivalent of thousands of dollars worth of high quality application software and is a doddle to install or run from a Live CD or USB memory stick.
If you're going to talk about technology then get the facts correct and unbiasedly presented.
Now here is a point of view that should be of interest to ALL writers of SF and the readers as well.
see http://sfwriter.com/blog/?p=2413
Read, cogitate, digest, ruminate, and then expound...
Woah, the podcast feed changed?
http://feeds.feedburner.com/tDP/C2C
It's used that feed for a very very long time, nearly 5 years (since whenever FeedBurner popped onto the scene)... the old podcast.xml URL just redirected to the FB URL.
But that is the same feed that iTunes has been using since it first came along, as well... is there something wrong with your subscription?
I don't use itunes. I was using https://www.dragonpage.com/podcastC2C.xml but I didn't see the latest episode on it when I last posted.
Yeah, that went away a little over a year ago, but was replaced by a permanent redirect during that time, along with all of the old .xml feed URLs (the permanent redirect is still in place, though).
Hopefully the feed readers that you and everyone else who'd been using that old URL have now switched you over to the new one (most software should acknowledge the new URL, because that's what a permanent redirect tells it). If not, hopefully they've noticed that there's a need to update 🙂
Loved the interview. The one question I was curious about - has her work ever been optioned for film? When I make my own lists of SF that really should be made into a movie, her work is at the top.
(Starship Troopers appears nowhere on that list).