{"id":17218,"date":"2012-10-06T11:14:14","date_gmt":"2012-10-06T16:14:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=17218"},"modified":"2012-10-06T11:14:14","modified_gmt":"2012-10-06T16:14:14","slug":"heres-a-potentially-viable-secondary-market-for-sf-hardcovers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2012\/10\/06\/heres-a-potentially-viable-secondary-market-for-sf-hardcovers\/","title":{"rendered":"Here’s a potentially viable secondary market for SF hardcovers"},"content":{"rendered":"

Charles Stross<\/a> updates his readers on what’s in the writing and production pipeline, and in the process discovers a niche market that might just be viable:<\/p>\n

[…] Because if there’s one thing guaranteed to annoy everyone, it’s embarking on a project that is bound to be at least a year late …<\/p>\n

What’s the problem? Well, I only get one slot per 12 months with my main publishers, and they’re nailed down years in advance. And the 2013 slot is currently occupied by Neptune’s Brood<\/em>, which I finished writing in July this year, about six months later than originally expected. Neptune’s Brood<\/em> is notionally a space opera, but I prefer to think of it as a parable about the banking liquidity crisis of 2008; the setting is recycled from Saturn’s Children<\/em>, albeit 5000 years later and without the overt Heinlein homage (and the characters). Unfortunately I’m a slow learner. A chunk of the action takes place on (or rather in) an aquatic super-earth with no land masses: consequently, the early cover art treatments rely on the theory that the book will sell best if, rather than somehow conveying the message that it’s about fractional-reserve banking fraud in a slower than light universe, the cover promises MERMAID BOOBIES!!!1!!<\/p>\n

Hmm.<\/p>\n

(I wonder if there’s a secondary market for fake dust-jackets for the easily-embarrassed reader, bearing the correct name and title but a different illustration? Signed by the author, even …!)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

For example, here is the original cover for Saturn’s Children<\/em>:<\/p>\n

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Charles Stross updates his readers on what’s in the writing and production pipeline, and in the process discovers a niche market that might just be viable: […] Because if there’s one thing guaranteed to annoy everyone, it’s embarking on a project that is bound to be at least a year late … What’s the problem? […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[32,831,28],"tags":[85,134],"class_list":["post-17218","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-business","category-media","tag-sf","tag-writing"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-4tI","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17218","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17218"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17218\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17221,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17218\/revisions\/17221"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17218"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17218"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17218"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}