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Orion’s ebooks appeared a couple of weeks ago, under the Gateway imprint, and I finally got around to checking ’em out to see what they did.<\/p>\nAwhile back, Wildside sold Orion UK the rights to publish ebook editions of twenty-four (at least) of my books.<\/p>\n
Orion’s ebooks appeared a couple of weeks ago, under the Gateway imprint, and I finally got around to checking ’em out to see what they did.<\/p>\n
Um.<\/p>\n
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First off, they have two titles wrong — they call Relics of War<\/i> The<\/b> Relics of War<\/i>, which is not the title, and have transformed The Cyborg and the Sorcerers<\/i> into The Cyborg and the Sorceress<\/i>.<\/p>\n
Second, they have published twenty-one titles, but for reasons I do not understand they have not included Taking Flight<\/i>, The Blood of A Dragon<\/i>, The Wizard and the War Machine<\/i>, or The Nightmare People<\/i>. (I suppose it’s possible The Nightmare People<\/i> wasn’t included in the deal.)<\/p>\n
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Third, they call Mind Candy<\/i>, a collection of essays, “science fiction.” I didn’t expect them to publish it at all, since it’s all about American pop culture.<\/p>\n
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And fourth, they have put a dragon on every single cover<\/b> except the two “science fiction” titles, The Cyborg and the “Sorceress”<\/i> and Mind Candy<\/i>. No cover is even remotely connected to the actual contents of the book. Some of them are very pretty, but still.<\/p>\n
Sheesh.<\/p>\n
Of course, it’s nice to have them available to European readers, no matter what they look like.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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