Date: Sun, 25 Jul 2004 17:54:20 -0400
From: Jim Kling <jkling at nasw.org>
To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at WSFA.org>
Subject: [WSFA] Re: Guy wants to give us free copies of his book
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at WSFA.org>

I think what we have here is a spoof. If your read the 'about the
author' link, you find this at the bottom:

What's next?
I have many ideas for many interesting novels, but I haven't as yet
figured out a fun way of writing them. For example, I know full well
what happens after "Rise of the Standard Imperium", and I could write it
right now, but it wouldn't be amusing; I have yet to figure out an
amusing way to tell the story. Until then I figure it out, I have to
focus on what comes more easily to mind--Newt World and Teddy World.
There will be more books in the Clifford Croft series, but only after
I've satisfied myself that I can write one that will be sufficiently
different from the ones before it. Only when I am really rich and famous
will I simply grind out books for the money, just like Star Trek
#500--Janeway and Kirk and Sisko and Archer and Picard must fight to
stop a villain while coping with Spock's feelings about being human,
Data's feelings about becoming human, B'elana's feelings about being
Klingon, and Uhura's feelings about miniskirts... OR Star Wars #
500--the best friend of Grand Admiral Thrawn's second cousin's butler is
out for revenge after Luke and Leia defeated Grand Admiral Thrawn's
second cousin. Although Thrawn's second cousin's butler had never
actually met Thrawn, he had read one of the previous Star Wars books and
picked up some tactics from that.... OR Foundation and More Robots and
Empire, where Golan Trevize must sip tea with R. Daneel Oliver and talk
philosophically about how they would like the galaxy to be organized for
the next 500 pages.

--
Jim Kling
science writer
Rockville, MD
http://nasw.org/users/jkling