Jan 10 2009
Well, it could have been a review of Hominids but…
Ross has been reading Robert Sawyer’s Hominids … and I’ve been pestering him to tell me about it. Suggested that he ‘write’ - okay, dictate, a review of it, but he isn’t much into that right now.
It is, he says, the kind of book that you want to read in one sitting. And as a result, he doesn’t particularly want to stop reading long enough to tell me what is good about it. Like Humans, which although it is the second book was the one we read first, it deals with interactions between two parallel worlds. Physicist Ponter Boddit, a somehow ends up on the other side of the barrier between the worlds - and until ~someone~ finishes the darn book and gives it to me to read, that, and what I have read on Sawyer’s site and Amazon is about all I really know.
I would be willing to bet that Ross’ interest in Sudbury’s Neutrino Observatory will be re-awakened though. I looked at a website about it - lots of stuff there, although every page I have looked at has been a victim of a rather unfortunate design choice. The background on the site is …well… go look for yourself if you like! All I can say is yuck. And neutrinos, btw, are not cereal (that would have been my first guess), they are “tiny, possibly massless, neutral elementary particles” (SNO )
Hominids must be at least as good as Humans was, I figure - since he who typically thinks I have enough books and should never need to buy more has decided that we should look for the rest of Sawyer’s novels… he has determined that we will try the used book stores in Peterborough this week, and if that doesn’t result in enough of them, I can find some online for him.
I just popped over to Sawyer’s blog to see about buying an autographed copy of something for Ross - knew I had seen a link over there. Got distracted by new blog posts to read though. Suppose I shall have to drop by there more regularly, even if he doesn’t have an entrecard to drop on. Anyway …one of the things I read was that Sawyer has a new book coming out in 2009 and it is published by Penguin Canada . Andrea? Did you catch that hint? 
It’s for Ross, honest!
I’m such a fangirl for Sawyer’s work. I own everything he’s published so far (tho I haven’t finished reading all of them), and was one of the first full length scifi book I ever read was his “End of an Era”.
I’ve always thought of his books as a science lecture with an interesting plot LOL
Sounds like a winner.
*I* could tell you all about neutrinos, but somehow I suspect you don’t really want to know.
oh? I will tell Ross that he can save all of his questions about them up for the next time you do Ask the Rocket Scientist, Stephanie… perhaps will even get him to get online and read your answers his own self
oh, that is cool, Patricia … I hope they show up soon …and that you’ll let me know what you think once you’ve read them.
Have you stopped by his blog? I enjoy reading it …although it could get expensive, as I want to read everything he mentions. Wake, his next book, sounds like one I might be able to include in my research project, which would be cool
Ross is being as ambiguous as everyone is about the movie “Seven Pounds”. That’s a good sign. When you don’t want to or can’t reveal too many details, or in his case, won’t take the time to–must be good. I’ll have to check it out.
Davida