Prime Time Replay:
Kathleen Ann Goonan
on Mississippi Blues
MsgId: *omni_visions(1)
Date: Thu Dec 18 20:04:01 PST 1997
From: Jim_Freund At: 207.38.234.221
Hello, and welcome to OMNI Visions. Tonight at 10:00 EST, our guest will be Kathleen Ann Goonan, author of "Queen City Jazz," "The Bones of Time," and the sequel to the first title, "Mississippi Blues," newly released from Tor. There are also some 20 or so short stories published in just anout every major sf magazine. The show will take the form of an interview for about the first 45 minutes, after which we'll open the forum for you to join us and participate.Kathy Goonan's writing invoked something for me that few sf books in recent year have managed -- a sense of wonder, in the classic tradition. Yet radition may be the wrog word for someone with such a strong, "new" voice. Be sure to join us at 10:00 PM EST.
Well, it's 10:00 PM, so time to get started. Are you there Kathy?
MsgId: *omni_visions(4)
Date: Thu Dec 18 21:58:45 PST 1997
From: KathleenGoonan At: 208.254.88.205
Hi, Jim. I'm here.
MsgId: *omni_visions(5)
Date: Thu Dec 18 21:59:27 PST 1997
From: Jim_Freund At: 207.38.234.221
Note to audience -- we will have the forum open for participation right from the start, but please give the interview portion a chance to get rolling and wait for a lull before joining in. When you do, please be sure to press "Pause While Typing", and to sign your messages.Hi Kathleen! It's great to have you here . . .
MsgId: *omni_visions(7)
Date: Thu Dec 18 22:01:47 PST 1997
From: KathleenGoonan At: 208.254.88.205
It's great to be here.
MsgId: *omni_visions(8)
Date: Thu Dec 18 22:02:31 PST 1997
From: Jim_Freund At: 207.38.234.221
Let's jump right in. Could you give us a precis of "Mississippi Blues," and what parts of "Queen City Jazz" that are necessary to follow it?
MsgId: *omni_visions(9)
Date: Thu Dec 18 22:04:29 PST 1997
From: KathleenGoonan At: 208.254.88.205
In "Mississippi Blues," some characters from "QCJ" and some new ones take a nanotech-spiked trip down the Ohio and Mississippi Rivers. Although reading "QCJ" is probably helpful, there ought to be enough info in "MB" to get rolling.
MsgId: *omni_visions(10)
Date: Thu Dec 18 22:06:36 PST 1997
From: Jim_Freund At: 207.38.234.221
How would you descibe the "world" of these books (without giving away too much)?
MsgId: *omni_visions(11)
Date: Thu Dec 18 22:08:37 PST 1997
From: KathleenGoonan At: 208.254.88.205
That's kind of brief, but it's the main story. It has a lot of antecedents, such as Huckleberry Finn, and a lot of musical background, and a lot of factual information about the rivers and towns. In this post nanotech holocaust era, things are quite different than today.
MsgId: *omni_visions(13)
Date: Thu Dec 18 22:09:30 PST 1997
From: PatrickO At: 152.163.207.35
Hi Jim. Hi, Kathy. I wanted to ask about the way you incorporate music into your novels. "Queen City Jazz" -- A lovely Book-is full of it. Is music important to you as inspiration? Mood? Art? Patrick O
MsgId: *omni_visions(16)
Date: Thu Dec 18 22:11:43 PST 1997
From: KathleenGoonan At: 208.254.88.205
All three, Patrick. Music is one of the most important aspects of my environment. (I apologize for the long down time, but my screen keeps bouncing from bottom to top -- be patient!)
MsgId: *omni_visions(17)
Date: Thu Dec 18 22:12:59 PST 1997
From: Jim_Freund At: 207.38.234.221
I feel I should be cautious in discussing your work, since the actual story is only revealed in levels as one continues reading. And for all the high-tech nature of what's occurring, what has occurred is "extremely" human and character driven. Hoping this is not a non-sequitor, who would you say your antecedants are.
MsgId: *omni_visions(18)
Date: Thu Dec 18 22:13:50 PST 1997
From: KathleenGoonan At: 208.254.88.205
Patrick, I grew up listening to a lot of jazz, and only jazz. I lived in a censored world until I was 10, and my dad gave me my own transister radio. He's a real jazz buff. It got into my brain structure, I think.I can only say that my antecedents are pretty much all I've read, seen, and heard. Since about all I did when young was read, this puts things on more of a print basis. I've been realizing lately that I read a LOT of fantasy, fairy tales, etc., and of course all the usual children's classics. Graduated into Chaucer, Romantic lit, Blake -- still fantastic.
MsgId: *omni_visions(21)
Date: Thu Dec 18 22:18:35 PST 1997
From: PatrickO At: 152.163.207.35
See, Kathy, I think that jazz is reflected in your work -- in unobvious ways. Maybe you got hardwired. There's a play with sturcture and narrative, a freewheeling quality, a sense of freedom, of delving deeper into things. A fearlessness which I envy and admire. We rarely hear how other mediums affect writers -- that's why I asked. There's music in your prose. Ideas, too, of course:) But that weird music I hear when I read you attracts me. This sounds a bit pompous . . . :)
MsgId: *omni_visions(22)
Date: Thu Dec 18 22:18:38 PST 1997
From: Jim_Freund At: 207.38.234.221
For all the influence of the fantastic literature, your writing is also very high-tech, hard sf. It reminds me (in more than one way) of Delany. Have you read much of him?
MsgId: *omni_visions(23)
Date: Thu Dec 18 22:19:09 PST 1997
From: KathleenGoonan At: 208.254.88.205
(BTW, my messages just run on horizontally, so I can't tell how long I can speak without going to another frame. Any way to fix this? If not, I'll continue to be short.)
MsgId: *omni_visions(24)
Date: Thu Dec 18 22:20:26 PST 1997
From: Jim_Freund At: 207.38.234.221
I'd say you can go one full paragraph before worrying.
MsgId: *omni_visions(25)
Date: Thu Dec 18 22:20:33 PST 1997
From: PatrickO At: 152.163.207.35
Short is good, too:)
MsgId: *omni_visions(27)
Date: Thu Dec 18 22:21:02 PST 1997
From: KathleenGoonan At: 208.254.88.205
Patrick, nice compliments! Thanks. I always listen to music when I write but I fear that it's bland stuff, because anything very interesting is too engaging. Still, it has a rhythm.Jim, I like Delany a lot, of course. Half of Dahlgren, like everyone . And a lot of the shorter works. I like his litcrit most of all, strangely enough.
MsgId: *omni_visions(31)
Date: Thu Dec 18 22:25:30 PST 1997
From: Jim_Freund At: 207.38.234.221
For me, "QCJ" has resonances of Dhalgren and The Einstein Intersection. Here's a definite non-sequitor -- why Ohio?
MsgId: *omni_visions(32)
Date: Thu Dec 18 22:27:53 PST 1997
From: PatrickO At: 152.163.207.35
Talked with Delany twice. Nice man. Intimidating intellect. I couldn't grasp half his references. Semiotics? What's that, etc? Still, I liked THEY FLY AT CIRON, THE EINSTIEN INTERSECTION, etc. When people ask about influences I always wonder how does it come out the other end? Do influences really tell us much about a writer? Why does everyone assume writers are only influenced by other writers? What about Aunt Mabel?:)
MsgId: *omni_visions(33)
Date: Thu Dec 18 22:28:00 PST 1997
From: KathleenGoonan At: 208.255.231.8
Sorry, I had to reconnect.I was born in Cincinnati, and for some reason Cincinnati rose up and grabbed me 35 years later. I guess the real answer is that I loved it there, and I wanted to revisit it. (I had a nice childhood . . . ) My Grandparents lived in Miamisburg, where I set the QCJ neo-shaker community (they are trying to hide out from nanotech).
Ohio also seems to lack its fair share of Sf treatments. It's always NY or LA .
MsgId: *omni_visions(38)
Date: Thu Dec 18 22:32:38 PST 1997
From: Jim_Freund At: 207.38.234.221
Patrick, I don't think works have to be related to other works, but they do have resonances. For you it might be music. For me, it's frequently other writers. I think art resonates is all, and I'm fascinated by that.
MsgId: *omni_visions(41)
Date: Thu Dec 18 22:34:11 PST 1997
From: PatrickO At: 152.163.207.35
There's a scene in "Queen City Jazz" -- a boy marooned in a High School in the middle of a river, who collects giant bees. I felt as if I had been given the privelege to eavesdrop on another person's dream -- Stunning. I always wanted to ask -- where'd that image come from? What does it mean to you?
MsgId: *omni_visions(42)
Date: Thu Dec 18 22:35:03 PST 1997
From: KathleenGoonan At: 208.255.231.8
Last summer a jazz radio interview show host from LA called me out of the blue and I "appeared" on his show. He had the same kind of cross-resonance questions. All arts are the distillation of thought/experience, and that's what I like -- intensity and focus.
MsgId: *omni_visions(40)
Date: Thu Dec 18 22:33:40 PST 1997
From: Jim_Freund At: 207.38.234.221
Does living in Florida do anything for your writing? (The Hemingway references?)
MsgId: *omni_visions(43)
Date: Thu Dec 18 22:36:39 PST 1997
From: KathleenGoonan At: 208.255.231.8
Jim, I must say that Florida hasn't done much except provide me with a nice flat place to write. It takes a while for Place to filter into my writing strata. I'm sure FL will figure in the next year or so. Hemingway is an important part of The American Arts, which I tried to highlight in QCJ.Patrick, I went to school K-2 in a wonderful 19th century School Building which held all 12 grades. It now perches on the edge of interstate 75. The school and the gymnasium are part of my memories (what are all these lines on the floor??) I went back there when I did a signing. The administrator had been in my class. She remembered me. She had my picture. Weird.
Also, my Dad told me that I-75, right there, was once a canal. So I filled it in with the New Ohio River and returned it to its historic significance.
For QCJ, it was Shakers, nanotech, pheromones (bees and flowers), Cinti history, jazz, American literature, comics, visual artists, and kind of an exploded literary form. At the time I was immersed in litcrit stuff.
MsgId: *omni_visions(45)
Date: Thu Dec 18 22:39:53 PST 1997
From: Jim_Freund At: 207.38.234.221
There's such a rich blend of history/arts/science/travelogue in your writing. What kind of research have you needed to do?
MsgId: *omni_visions(47)
Date: Thu Dec 18 22:42:00 PST 1997
From: KathleenGoonan At: 208.255.231.8
Jim, a plethora of research. I carry large bags of books wherever I go for years on end. I read all the pop science mags of course, and science news, and all the great recent Science by Scientists books available. I've travelled a lot, sold a lot of travel pieces (mostly to the Washington Post), and for each book I have a constellation of subjects which all seem to gel.
MsgId: *omni_visions(48)
Date: Thu Dec 18 22:42:10 PST 1997
From: PatrickO At: 152.163.207.35
Thanks Kathy. Strange to see our past change. I always ask writers I respect this: What is the most difficult thing for you? Characters? Plot? Just getting it out? You know . . . (Hi, Ellen!)
MsgId: *omni_visions(49)
Date: Thu Dec 18 22:43:41 PST 1997
From: EllenDatlow At: 152.166.7.237
(Hi, Patrick!:))
MsgId: *omni_visions(52)
Date: Thu Dec 18 22:45:34 PST 1997
From: KathleenGoonan At: 208.255.231.8
I suppose I'd say plot is most difficult. Mississippi Blues was great in that regard, because it's a picaresque river trip and geography helped a lot. I think plot should be invisible, and mine often are .
MsgId: *omni_visions(51)
Date: Thu Dec 18 22:44:22 PST 1997
From: Jim_Freund At: 207.38.234.221
How's about your research on the blues and African-American history?
MsgId: *omni_visions(54)
Date: Thu Dec 18 22:48:19 PST 1997
From: KathleenGoonan At: 208.255.231.8
Jim, for MB I had a lot of sources. Takayumi Tatsumi(I hope I got his name right) advised me to read TERRIBLE HONESTY, Mongrel Manhattan in the 1920's. The first real influx of African American culture into mainstream white culture via the Harlem Renaissance. THE LAND WHERE THE BLUES BEGAN was another wonderful source. The author, Alan Lomax, visited the south with his dad, who made a lot of the first Smithsonion blues recordings . . . Alan returned in the 40's and 50's and had his own stories to tell about Southern Black history, Parchman Farm (another great book was WORSE THAN SLAVERY, a history of the Mississippi Prison Farm). THE POWER OF BLACK MUSIC is a more academic study. And so on. Lots of great stuff and more all the time.
MsgId: *omni_visions(53)
Date: Thu Dec 18 22:47:25 PST 1997
From: PatrickO At: 152.163.207.35
When you say "My plots are invisible" you mean . . .? What? No car chases?:)
MsgId: *omni_visions(56)
Date: Thu Dec 18 22:51:51 PST 1997
From: KathleenGoonan At: 208.255.231.8
Patrick, I've had a hard time with the overt "plotiness" which seems to be a standard feature in sf short literature, at least. I just think it should be subtle. Not hit you on the head. Car chases are okay . . . but SUBTLE car chases . Car chases and such like are kind of "busy work" timewasters.I'm just saying that a lot of my plots might seem less than visible to readers demanding obvious plots. I'm not bragging about this; I think a writer ought to master a lot of different forms. I've learned plots; they're just not my forte.
MsgId: *omni_visions(59)
Date: Thu Dec 18 22:55:47 PST 1997
From: PatrickO At: 152.163.207.35
SUBTLE car chases sounds like a whole new genre! If anyone can do it you can, Kathy.
MsgId: *omni_visions(57)
Date: Thu Dec 18 22:52:10 PST 1997
From: Jim_Freund At: 207.38.234.221
I've heard some recordings with Lomax hosting -- great stuff. Fascinating. Do you play any instruments?
MsgId: *omni_visions(60)
Date: Thu Dec 18 22:56:52 PST 1997
From: KathleenGoonan At: 208.255.231.8
Jim, following in the footsteps of my father, I played alto sax for a year in high school. He played jazz saxophone and toured occupied Germany with his army buddies. He also saw every jazz great you can imagine in small clubs. After a year I switched to the trombone. Smaller, you know. A simple thing. I play the piano somehwhat -- played a lot of Joplin for a while while working on QCJ. I also sang in a madrigal group for a time. And in coffeehouses, like everyone, with my guitar.
MsgId: *omni_visions(61)
Date: Thu Dec 18 22:58:49 PST 1997
From: KathleenGoonan At: 208.255.231.8
Patrick, a challenge--Subtle Car Chase genre invention. Bet you'd be good at it too.
MsgId: *omni_visions(63)
Date: Thu Dec 18 22:59:57 PST 1997
From: PatrickO At: 152.163.207.35
Forgive me, I must tuck my boys in. Kathleen Ann Goonan is The Real Thing. A Writer who matters. Take care all. Patrick O'Leary. Ta
MsgId: *omni_visions(62)
Date: Thu Dec 18 22:58:59 PST 1997
From: Jim_Freund At: 207.38.234.221
Are you into folk music all?To all lurkers -- a recap of our chat: Our guest is Kathleen Ann Goonan, and our vocal audience is Patrick O'Leary. Feel free to join in with any questions or comments you may have. Don't forget to click on "pause while typing", and to sign your messages.
MsgId: *omni_visions(65)
Date: Thu Dec 18 23:04:38 PST 1997
From: KathleenGoonan At: 208.254.88.109
Patrick, many thanks for dropping by. And I'd say that O'Leary is a writer of fascinating books, such as DOOR NUMBER THREE and THE GIFT -- one of the best books of the year according to PW.Jim, had to reconnect. I see you're a fan of SteeleyeSpan, and I was for a while, and of Sandy Denny and a group my friends called The Incredibly Bad String Band whenever I played them, which was often. Around '64 I started listening to Peter Paul and Mary; noticed the writers. Went to the Smithsonian with my cousin to listen to some of the originals, like Woody Guthrie. We were too young. Laughed too much. Were thrown out. I'm very into folk music, or used to be.
MsgId: *omni_visions(67)
Date: Thu Dec 18 23:07:02 PST 1997
From: Jim_Freund At: 207.38.234.221
Patrick will be the guest on Hour of the Wolf (my radio program) on January 17, and Kathleen on Feb. 7. Official plug (and boast).
MsgId: *omni_visions(68)
Date: Thu Dec 18 23:08:27 PST 1997
From: KathleenGoonan At: 208.254.88.109
There's been a great resurgence in accoustic music in the past few years. I enjoy it, when I get a chance to listen.
MsgId: *omni_visions(69)
Date: Thu Dec 18 23:09:50 PST 1997
From: Jim_Freund At: 207.38.234.221
Hmmph! I just opened my show last week with 30 minutes of The Incredible String Band. Wonderful stuff, despite your friends. Given this background, might we see a third book called Florida Folk? (sorry)
MsgId: *omni_visions(70)
Date: Thu Dec 18 23:10:03 PST 1997
From: KathleenGoonan At: 208.254.88.109
Patrick and I are both great fans of Van Morrison. I think he's seeing Van in NYC. I'm very envious. I saw him in a small club in San Francisco about 20 years ago.Hmmm. Florida Folk. To tell you the truth, there's a local station, WMNF, that's very active in promoting the music. Of course, in my books, Florida is drowned, but I could make a floating Key West.
MsgId: *omni_visions(73)
Date: Thu Dec 18 23:12:20 PST 1997
From: Jim_Freund At: 207.38.234.221
Yeah, I saw Morrison about that time in NYC at an Irish club. It's thanks to that concert that Patrick is coming to NY, and therefore my show.
MsgId: *omni_visions(74)
Date: Thu Dec 18 23:16:06 PST 1997
From: KathleenGoonan At: 208.254.88.109
It's kind of funny how I've sequed into appreciating Music Without Words in the past few years. I liked jazz well enough when I was younger, but now I find it much more interesting than when I was playing folk guitar.
MsgId: *omni_visions(75)
Date: Thu Dec 18 23:16:07 PST 1997
From: Jim_Freund At: 207.38.234.221
The idea of an Enlivened Key West boggles the mind. What is the situation of Las Vegas in your books?
MsgId: *omni_visions(76)
Date: Thu Dec 18 23:18:12 PST 1997
From: KathleenGoonan At: 208.254.88.109
Jim, we don't know what's happened to Las Vegas, but a nanotech-enlivened Las Vegas boggles the mind. Blaze stops in Salt Lake City via the train, and goes to a very different LA in Mississippi Blues. But Las Vegas . . . it's already pretty strange.
MsgId: *omni_visions(77)
Date: Thu Dec 18 23:18:12 PST 1997
From: Jim_Freund At: 207.38.234.221
I think there's a serious resurgence of interest in jazz nowadays, and I couldn't be more pleased about that. A number of new clubs and venues are popping up in NYC at least.
MsgId: *omni_visions(78)
Date: Thu Dec 18 23:19:24 PST 1997
From: KathleenGoonan At: 208.254.88.109
I think that people are becoming more interested in jazz, which for a while seemed like it might be a dying artform.You have to have mastered an instrument in order to play jazz, which is not true of rock. When I was a kid my Dad would say, "recognize that? It's Twinkle Twinkle Little Star (or whatever). In this way I learned about variations on a theme.
MsgId: *omni_visions(80)
Date: Thu Dec 18 23:21:08 PST 1997
From: Jim_Freund At: 207.38.234.221
I daresay Las Vegas is already Enlivened. That's what prompted the question. Tell me a bit about BoT, which I'm sorry to say I haven't read yet. (Or I'm glad to say it -- that means I've got the experience to look forward to.)That's an interesting distinction you made made jazz & rock. So few rock musicians have mastered their instruments, and those that have frequently get involved in jazz. Zappa particularly comes to mind.
MsgId: *omni_visions(82)
Date: Thu Dec 18 23:25:10 PST 1997
From: KathleenGoonan At: 208.254.88.109
The Bones of Time is about Hawaiian history, the nature of consciousness, spacetime mathematics, and cloning. Around 2015, a Hawaiian street kid "sees" Kaiulani, Hawaii's last princess. She died at 23, a year after Hawaii was illegally annexed by the U.S. (Congress very recently made a Lengthy Official Apology.) An international consorium is building a near-lightspeed ship, but all research is stalled -- they don't know how to do it. . . .The kid, Cen Kalakaua, grows up to be a gifted mathematician, and figures out how to get to Kaiulani in the "multiuniverse." The Hawaiian Homeland Movement clones Kamehameha, the king who united the islands in the 1700s. There is a long chase, some of it in cars, through Hong Kong, China, Tibet, Nepal, and Thailand. I've been to all those places, except China and Tibet, so I used those experiences in the book.
Penrose's theory of the non-computational basis of consciousness plays a part in the book, along with all kinds of physics. Greg Benford told me he enjoyed it, so maybe I got some of the physics right.
MsgId: *omni_visions(85)
Date: Thu Dec 18 23:32:19 PST 1997
From: Jim_Freund At: 207.38.234.221
Have you studied any science formally? Do you confer with anyone else to check your science?
MsgId: *omni_visions(86)
Date: Thu Dec 18 23:33:52 PST 1997
From: KathleenGoonan At: 208.254.88.109
An interesting result of The Bones of Time was that it connected me with the REAL Hawaiian Sovereignty Movement. They've linked to my web page (for those who wish to view it, the address is http://home1.gte.net/mansy/index.htm) and I get all kinds of fascinating legal information from them.I didn't like "science" much when I was a kid. I love it now. My husband has a degrees in chemistry and medicine, so I can bounce ideas off of him. The idea of using the DNA of bacteria as a communication device, as happens in the flower cities of QCJ and MB, came from a conversation from him about What "They're" Doing With Bacteria (ten years ago). My father is an engineer, and is extremely well-informed on all kinds of subjects. He witnessed a nanoscale "machine" at the Naval Observatory not too many years ago.
MsgId: *omni_visions(88)
Date: Thu Dec 18 23:38:54 PST 1997
From: Jim_Freund At: 207.38.234.221
Can you elaborate a bit -- what is a "nanoscale machine"?
MsgId: *omni_visions(89)
Date: Thu Dec 18 23:39:36 PST 1997
From: KathleenGoonan At: 208.254.88.109
Steve Brown, of SF Eye fame, has suggested that I do a "Weird Science" web column for a page a friend of ours (a bookseller, Mike Nally, at Cosmicat.com) is putting together. It's the weird stuff I like."Nano" just means very small, and nanotechnology, Eric Drexler's word, refers to molecular or even atomic-sized machines or manipulation of matter. There is presently a lot of research going on in this area. A good site for such information is nanothinc.com
Drexler postulates, in ENGINES OF CREATION, his first book, a functioning nanotech environment that influences everything from medicine to manufacturing to architecture. I took all those ideas to what I saw as being their extreme limit in the world of QUEEN CITY JAZZ.
I also postulated the existence of nanotech "plagues of thought," which can be airborne and infect the victim with preprogrammed thoughts -- kind of like memes. Powerful vectors of thought, which can control viewpoint and action.
MsgId: *omni_visions(92)
Date: Thu Dec 18 23:44:57 PST 1997
From: Jim_Freund At: 207.38.234.221
Cool. (What else can I say? -) Have you ever considered yourself a cyberpunk (or whatever) writer?Did you do any time as a entemologist?
MsgId: *omni_visions(95)
Date: Thu Dec 18 23:48:07 PST 1997
From: KathleenGoonan At: 208.254.88.109
Paul Di Fillipo coined the term "Ribofunk," after DNA/RNA and put me in that category. I'm pretty much post cyberpunk, I'd say . . . my characters aren't very tough, for one thing and information is processed organically rather than with the machines we use now.I studied a lot of information about bees when writing QCJ. They are fascinating creatures. Their vision is extremely refined, and their sense of direction is from their own polarization of the sun. In addition, of course, they use some of the thousands of naturally ocurring pheromones to communicate very complex messages among themselves. I haven't progressed much beyond bees .
Bees also, of course, communicate via "dance;" patterns of movement which tell where and how far away their sisters can find food. Thus in QCJ I made the connection between the Shaker's dances, which were spontaneous at first, then formalized, and the dances of bees.
MsgId: *omni_visions(97)
Date: Thu Dec 18 23:51:05 PST 1997
From: Jim_Freund At: 207.38.234.221
Hey, Ribofunk could even be a kind of music! We're about out of time, so let me throw a couple of last questions at you. Will there be a third book in this series, and what are you working on now, or what's due out?I have my day job at a science museum, and we have our own hive. Great to watch at lunch.
MsgId: *omni_visions(101)
Date: Thu Dec 18 23:55:53 PST 1997
From: KathleenGoonan At: 208.254.88.109
I learned too late that the Cincinnat Zoo has an astounding hive. Too late to go visit it, that is, but not too late to use it in the book . The book has actually grown into what I'm calling a Nanotech Quartet. The final two books, CRESCENT CITY RHAPSODY and an utitled fourth, will be published by the new Avon EOS line.
MsgId: *omni_visions(102)
Date: Thu Dec 18 23:59:39 PST 1997
From: Jim_Freund At: 207.38.234.221
Well, I must say I'll be waiting with bated breath for those -- the first two have utterly fascinated me, and brought back some of the feelings that first drew me to sf. Thanks so much for being here (and in advance for being on my radio show. You've covered art, history, science, and provided a great read.
MsgId: *omni_visions(103)
Date: Fri Dec 19 00:01:31 PST 1997
From: KathleenGoonan At: 208.255.231.88
I think I disconnected without realizing it. CCR will begin in the near-future, and show internationally how the world of QCJ and MB comes about. The final book will connect with the characters from MB, though I'm not sure how much I'll use them, and bring all the issues to a conclusion.Jim, thanks a lot for having me. I've had fun . . . it was nice for Patrick O'Leary to drop by too. He's always lively.
MsgId: *omni_visions(105)
Date: Fri Dec 19 00:03:14 PST 1997
From: Jim_Freund At: 207.38.234.221
Indeed he is. Thanks Again!
MsgId: *omni_visions(106)
Date: Fri Dec 19 00:04:30 PST 1997
From: KathleenGoonan At: 208.255.231.88
I'm leaving now -- "see you" on the radio.
MsgId: *omni_visions(107)
Date: Fri Dec 19 00:06:34 PST 1997
From: Jim_Freund At: 207.38.234.221
And to all, thanks for being here. This is the last OMNI Visions chat of the year, but Ellen has already started lining up some wonderful folk for Ed & I for next year, starting with Joe Lansdale on Jan. 8 discussing Bad Chili, and Gwynneth Jones the next week. Happy Solstice and New Year to all.
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