{"id":4942,"date":"2011-06-03T12:35:29","date_gmt":"2011-06-03T17:35:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/?p=4942"},"modified":"2011-06-03T11:30:39","modified_gmt":"2011-06-03T16:30:39","slug":"review-copypalooza","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/?p=4942","title":{"rendered":"Review Copypalooza"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So about a year after I really needed to, I&#8217;ve finally got around to reorganizing my office. And by &#8220;reorganizing,&#8221; I mean &#8220;putting away a bunch of crap so I can actually put the books I&#8217;ve already bought in their proper places on my shelves.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>One obstacle to this is all the <a href=\"http:\/\/home.roadrunner.com\/~lperson1\/nova.html\"><i>Nova Express<\/i><\/a> review copies that have piled up around the place. It hasn&#8217;t (quite) been a decade since The Fanzine That Walks Like a Semiprozine published its last issue in 2002. In 2003 I was unemployed most of the year, in 2004 I bought a house, and in 2005 I took a 10 day trip to the UK to see London and the Glasgow Worldcon, all things that ate up both time and money required to publish something that lost a good $1,000-2,000 an issue. (I contend that <i>Nova Express<\/i> is not in fact dead, but merely resting and pining for the fjords. It&#8217;s been my intention to resurrect the beast as some sort of online zine, but life has continued to get in the way.) Despite its non-published status, <i>Nova Express<\/i> has continued to receive review copies of books (proofs, ARCS, hardbacks, paperbacks, you name it), the more interesting of which I&#8217;ve put aside until I had time to bring the zine back to life, though I have reviewed something here <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/?p=3256\">every now and then<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>But rather than let all these review copies continue taking up valuable bookshelf space, I&#8217;ve decided to do two things:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Offer them up to former <i>Nova Express<\/i> staffers (you know who you are) to review here on Futuramen (as a sort of low-calorie-Nova-Express substitute, or Nova-Express-in-Exile sort of thing), and\n<li>Disperse the rest (sell\/giveaway\/put into my own library).<\/ol>\n<p>Rather than spend time listing each and every copy (there are a lot), I&#8217;m just going to list the authors. If you&#8217;d like to review something by them, let me know. Keep in mind some of these are almost a decade old, but what the hell, better late than never. <\/p>\n<li>Neal Asher\n<li>S. A. Bodeen\n<li>Kevin Brockmeier\n<li>M. M. Buckner\n<li>Ramsey Campbell\n<li>Storm Constantine\n<li>Brenda Cooper\n<li>Robert Conroy\n<li>Frank Corsaro\n<li>Ellen Datlow\n<li>Cory Doctrow\n<li>William Drinkard\n<li>Carol Emshwiller\n<li>Andreas Eschbach\n<li>Steven Erikson\n<li>Ian C. Esselmont\n<li>Michael Flynn\n<li>Gregory Frost\n<li>Anne Harris\n<li>Melanie Gideon\n<li>Daryl Gregory\n<li>Jim Grimsley\n<li>Peter F. Hamilton\n<li>Thomas Harlan\n<li>Howard Hendrix\n<li>Stephen Hunt\n<li>James Patrick Kelly\n<li>Liam Jackson\n<li>Jay Lake\n<li>Jean Lorrah\n<li>James Maxey\n<li>A. Lee Martinez\n<li>Sandra McDonald\n<li>Paul Melko\n<li>James Morrow\n<li>Jamil Nasir\n<li>Paul Park\n<li>Nicholas Pekearo\n<li>Kit Reed\n<li>R. Garcia Y. Robertson\n<li>Cameron Rogers\n<li>Mary Rosenblum\n<li>Rudy Rucker\n<li>Melinda Snodgrass\n<li>Stanley Schmidt\n<li>William R. Trotter\n<li>Vernor Vinge\n<li>Kit Whitfield\n<li>Kim Wilkins\n<li>David Wellington\n<li>Scott Westerfield\n<\/li>\n<p>If you want to review any of these, <a href=\"MAILTO:lawrenceperson@gmail.com\">drop me a line<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So about a year after I really needed to, I&#8217;ve finally got around to reorganizing my office. And by &#8220;reorganizing,&#8221; I mean &#8220;putting away a bunch of crap so I can actually put the books I&#8217;ve already bought in their proper places on my shelves.&#8221; One obstacle to this is all the Nova Express review [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":10,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,137,56,5],"tags":[288,1973,1983,1979,1051,1050,1047,726,1970],"class_list":["post-4942","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-fantasy","category-horror","category-science-fiction","tag-book-reviews","tag-books","tag-fantasy","tag-horror","tag-howard-hendrix","tag-neal-asher","tag-nova-express","tag-rudy-rucker","tag-science-fiction"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4942","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4942"}],"version-history":[{"count":28,"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4942\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5005,"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4942\/revisions\/5005"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4942"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4942"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4942"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}