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Niall ([personal profile] coalescent) wrote2007-06-07 07:26 pm

As Others See Us Of The Day

Noodling around on Amazon, I stumble upon the paperback of Lydia Millet's Oh Pure and Radiant Heart. It does not say "nominated for the Arthur C. Clarke Award" on the cover; instead, the uncredited "synopsis" concludes:
"Oh Pure and Radiant Heart" is no more a SF novel than "The Time-Traveller's Wife". Instead, it is a powerful and original fiction of responsibility and guilt, today's America, and the peculiar terrors of our nuclear world.

However, customers who bought this item also bought Gradisil, Nova Swing, and Hav (and the paperback for the latter carries an Ursula le Guin blurb, which suggests they're not ignoring the sf market, at least). Ha.

[identity profile] coalescent.livejournal.com 2007-06-08 11:18 am (UTC)(link)
By the way, Theft is hands down the book of the year.

Not the book of last year? :-p

[identity profile] ninebelow.livejournal.com 2007-06-08 12:01 pm (UTC)(link)
Not the book of last year? :-p

In my world it was published on the 7th June 2007.

[identity profile] coalescent.livejournal.com 2007-06-08 12:48 pm (UTC)(link)
I always forget you're on PST.