…altho I’m a long way from being Charles Kuralt. 🙂
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The digital “chit” you’re looking for is called a BitCoin – although its security could use some upgrading. The chips would communicate with the tablets through Near-Field Communications (common in Japan already).
The real problem with world building for me – especially in hard sci-fi – is that even if we run into problems with uploading minds, additive manufacturing/3D printing/”replicators” are becoming more and more feasible every day. The xenon atoms have been on the copper substrate ever since IBM did it back in 1989. Still plenty of steps to go, but we’ve gone several steps along the tool to build the tool to build the tool to build the tool road. And “replicators” change things in so very very many ways – ways that tended to open up plot holes in Star Trek episodes on a weekly basis.
You started Cape Grace for NaNoWriMo two years ago, I think. Year before last was Zypheria’s Call, and well into Hermit’s Wood. I haven’t nagged you lately about it – someone else did – but well… nag, nag, nag.
I’d also suggest, as soon as you can get Full Share finished up, that you drop a “State of the Author” post on SolarClipper and LammasWood.
Speaking of releases… Amazon is being a pisser right now – I’m pretty *bleepin’* sure you hit the button for Half Share – but right now it’s showing for me as Not Available for customers from: United States. UK, I could understand (though I’d be surprised), but US? You might want a word with them about that…
Half Share looks like it is available for purchase to me (though I bought it right when it was re-released).
My interface is showing HS available (and selling) world wide. Not sure what the hiccup is, Tara.
I think I’ve figured it out – from your Author’s Page, http://www.amazon.com/Nathan-Lowell/e/B003D54RY4/ref=sr_tc_2_0?qid=1358781804&sr=8-2-ent , the only copy of Half Share I’m seeing is the Ridan paperback. Clicking through to it, and from thence to the kindle edition listed there, gives me the not available page. which kinda makes sense. Since Amazon is still showing the Ridan paperback available, though, at least you’ll still have some money coming from Ridan most likely.
It would be helpful if Amazon’s message was more informative; something along the lines of “This publisher no longer has the rights to distribute this e-book.” Humm… I’ll bet a lawyer could make that even more muddy, wondering if they even have the rights to sell the paperbacks they’ve already had printed up, or should those copies be transferred back to you to sell/destroy? Fortunately, we regular humans can figure out that of course they can sell the ones they’ve already had printed, as long as they pay the royalty that was set for them.
And why do authors get royalties, instead of the publisher getting a commission? There are times I truly hate the English language for the insanity it allows you to say.
Why is it the overly book data obsessed, like Amazon and librarians, want to think of new editions of books as completely different entities? It should be Book:Edition:Format:Printing and not Format:Edition:Book:Printing, or Edition:Book:Format:Printing, or whatever the insanity they’re doing.
Oddly enough, I don’t see HS on the Kindle page either. Full author listing shows it… But the Kindle.
I’m not sure about how feasible a currency would be. Any fiat currency is built on trust, and I don’t see these folks being a particularly trusting lot. I could imagine a lot of bartering, or perhaps something like house credit from people like Odin. Perhaps a galactic, underground craig’s list for commodities? Or a market for paperwork to make a cargo look like it had a legit origin, so that it could then be sold openly?
This probably isn’t helpful, but something Dean Wesley Smith said really struck a nerve with me. He said to keep production/editing tasks separate from, and done outside of, writing time.
“The airlock is right there, and space is really big”
Yep. 🙂