Comments on: “MultiReal”: The First Drafts

By: David Louis Edelman

David Louis Edelman — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 13:48:54 +0000

Ira: Once a Borges fan, always a Borges fan. “Library of Babel” is, hands down, one of my favorite short stories in the whole canon of literature.

By: Ira Nayman

Ira Nayman — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 04:28:05 +0000

I was bopping through Infoquake, liking some characters and ideas more than others, when I came to the part where Borges’ “Library at Babel” was recast as a virtual environment. What a great idea! I am now a fan.

By: David Louis Edelman

David Louis Edelman — Tue, 12 Aug 2008 13:10:40 +0000

Thanks, all! ruzkin, hope you sell a truckload of ‘em. And yes, Charles, I did see (and am quite pleased with) that review on Pat’s Fantasy Hotlist.

By: Charles

Charles — Tue, 12 Aug 2008 05:07:54 +0000

As with your sharing of your early drafts of the opening chapter of Infoquake I really enjoy this glimpse into your writing development. I'm sure you've seen this already, but here is quite a favorable review of MultiReal from Pat's Fantasy Hotlist

By: ruzkin

ruzkin — Mon, 11 Aug 2008 11:30:17 +0000

I was just linked here by a friend and recognised the cover of Infoquake instantly, because we just received a fat box of the paperbacks at the small sci-fi/fantasy bookstore where I work.

Congrats on both books, and thanks tons for posting up these drafts. As a sci-fi fan and ever-hopeful author myself, it’s great to see that all authors go through the same tough processes. Keep on trucking, and I look forward to selling Infoquake over the next few weeks.

By: Ozzy

Ozzy — Wed, 06 Aug 2008 04:41:43 +0000

I think it’s pretty cool to see someone else’s multitude of drafts. This is such a huge part of the writing process that people never really think about once they pick up a book from a store shelf and start reading. It’s so easy not to think about the enormous amounts of revising and planning and revising and naming and revising and…you get it. It’s comforting to know other people use really generic placeholder names until they come up with something better, I do that all the time on early drafts.