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9am this morning and my copy of Shepherd Moon just arrived in the post !!
I HAVE TO SAY I NEARLY KISSED THE POSTMAN !
No guessing what I’m doing for the next few hours. Just hope my boss doesn’t mind !! :laugh:
PROCYONSTAR
Also received here in England 🙂
I must say I’m rather impressed with lulu.com. The book incidentally looks [i]great[/i] – excellent cover reproduction, solidly bound, etc.
Looking forward to starting reading [b]Shepherd Moon[/b]. And of course, to getting the [i]next[/i] book due off the starting blocks soon…..
– Simon
PS: Pleased though I was to receive the book, I had no desire to kiss the postman
I agree Simon, lulu.com seem to have done a wonderful job. The book looks great – really stunning artwork.
I’ve read the first story – The Touch of Venus – and what can I say…it was brilliant !!
Although I’m itching to go on and read the rest I’m trying to show a little self control… :unsure: …and wait until later this evening. Then I can settle down with a glass of wine and enjoy the book with no interruptions 🙂
Ally
This is always the point we at Powys work so hard for — none of it means anything until people are reading the books!
Okay, just a reminder — preface any spoiler-specific material with lots of white space and a prominent SPOILERS entry!
Enjoy, folks (and quick shout-out to the amazing Ken Scott who does our amazing covers — when we first saw his cover for Shepherd Moon, we thought we’d died and gone to heaven).
Couldn’t agree more with the comment about Ken Scott’s covers. They are superb.
I particularly like the [b]Born for Adversity[/b] cover, and can’t wait to see what Ken comes up with for [b]Omega[/b].
The images are striking, yet uncluttered, colourful and yet not too garish. A real step forward for the book series in my opinion.
I am glad people are getting the books so quickly. It has been less than a week since it went up for sale (Friday night–and today is Thursday!).
Ken Scott’s covers are really excellent. I love the cover of Shepherd Moon. It is very evocative! That is not to say I didn’t like the covers to the older books. The flower petal cover was an interesting one, and Barry Morse’s face on Survival just gave it a sort of humanity.
As far as the covers go, I like them all. Ken’s Born for Adversity cover is the first use of computer generated artwork on one of our covers, an exciting step!
Enjoy the books!
I just got my copy yesterday. So far, it is pretty exciting. I just finished reading the first short story(way to go, John!)and I am starting on the second one.
Definately looking forward to Born For Adversity. That will be exciting, since it is a Year Three novel.
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just got my copy today (Saturday), a bit quicker than I thought I might get it.
I like how the Eagle on the front cover is both larger and whiter than before
I ordered my copy of “Shepherd Moon” Thursday 1/28; it was shipped on Friday 1/29 and delivered Tuesday 2/2. It is a thing of beauty. You’ve made a great choice with Lulu.
The arrival of a new “Space:1999” novel takes me back to 1975. In our mid-teens my friends and I embraced the Alphans because we knew they were us. This was our future. Even though NASA wasn’t going to the moon anymore by ’75, we had gown up during the era of continual manned space exploration. There was no reason not to believe that a Moonbase was possible by the end of the century. More than that, “Space: 1999” was completely ours. We were second generation “Trekkies” who dismissed the Irwin Allen kiddie leftovers from the ’60’s. “ Space:1999” was new, clean and state of the art. It was the first new hard sf of the 1970’s. As teenagers, the hostile environment s that the Alphans faced were an understandable alternative to the certainty of Federation space. Our lives were uncertain, awash in complexities that we barely understood, guided by mysterious unknown forces.
For those reasons (and I’m sure others) “Space:1999” has remained important to me, central to the way I judge all televised sf. Many thanks for reviving the story of Moonbase Alpha and moving it forward. I look forward to “Born for Adversity” and “Omega” with an excitement I thought long lost.
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