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New multi-volume big space adventure starts up at Book View Cafe!



Book View Café Releases Exordium: The Phoenix in Flight by Sherwood Smith and Dave Trowbridge

Exordium: The Phoenix in Flight (Science Fiction)
Sherwood Smith and Dave Trowbridge
$3.99 ISBN: 978161138 059 0

I'm very excited about this! All of Sherwood Smith's character and world-building skills applied to SF? And David Trowbridge is not only an old hand at SF, he's also the spouse of writer Deborah J. Ross, author of the excellent Northlight and Jaydium. This promises to be great stuff, and at an unbeatable price!

So -- until my Nuala sales are high enough to let me write the next book, here's some good SF for your Reader. I'll be getting a copy for my Calibre, and will report back as soon as I finish the other six reviews I have to write!

Here's the basis of the story:

Brandon nyr-Arkad, the Emperor's scapegrace youngest son, defies protocol and evades a ceremonial duty, a defiance punishable by death. He's just ahead of an attack on the Panarchy of the Thousand Suns by Eusabian, a revenge twenty years in the making.

Phoenix in Flight begins the five volume arc of Exordium, as Brandon discovers what happened to his home after he left, and he has to make a decision: stay an outlaw, or return and deal with the smoking ruins of his rejected world?

Sherwood Smith and Dave Trowbridge are longtime science fiction readers as well as writers.
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[identity profile] alfreda89.livejournal.com 2011-05-24 02:57 am (UTC)(link)
Yes, DRM has become a mess. At BVC we just assume our customers are adults.

I left the locks on at Amazon to deter pirates, but I understand pirates don't bother breaking e-books, they're more likely to scan an old book in (I guess this gives them the right to sell it, ha-ha...) So I should have left it off at Amazon, too. But I can't change that at Amazon now.

[identity profile] tylik.livejournal.com 2011-05-25 06:01 pm (UTC)(link)
Well, and the Amazon stuff has mostly been hacked, anyway. Many of the people I know buy books off Amazon, but then hack them so that they have personal backup copies in case something happens to Amazon (or Amazon stops speaking to them, which has happened for some pretty stupid reasons). It might even be legal - there is legal precedent in other media.

So my insistance on DRM free is political rather than practical, really.

[identity profile] alfreda89.livejournal.com 2011-05-25 06:35 pm (UTC)(link)
I'm in the "give artists pay for their creations, but enough with the Mickey Mouse protection!" camp. So I suppose mine is political, too. That's part of how we got the group at BVC that we did -- we were all opposed to DRM.

I don't have a problem with people making a backup of their books -- and I've heard of publishers limiting how many times someone can re-download a book. Which I have a problem with -- either you allow them to download as long as that edition exists, or you don't. Everyone has a right to try and protect a book from common disaster, if they want to keep that book.

Eventually, the tech will evolve beyond the ability to transfer. But up to that point, there's several layers of mediums between, or so I've observed. People who want to go to the trouble should be able to do so.
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