Robert Brown of the SF Bokhandeln took a couple of pics of the signing I did in Stockholm.
I'm probably saying something devastatingly witty at this point. Maths and Jorgen (Stockholm) and Glenn and Johan (Gothenberg) were all great company and I enjoyed hanging out with them and being treated to a couple of lovely meals.
Tuesday, 29 April 2008 - 10:09 PM MEST
Name: "Joshua Cantara"
Thank goodness for that name placard, or the people in line for your autograph might not have known who you were.
I finished "House of Suns" and it was another excellent read. I'm not sure this is the appropriate place for a question, but I'll toss it out anyway...
I never got a really good sense of how many Lines there are. There were at least 5 or 6 mentioned by name, but beyond that I'm not sure. How many Lines are there throughout the Commonality?
Wednesday, 30 April 2008 - 12:54 PM MEST
Name: voxish
Hi Joshua
Glad you got on with HOS. You're right - I never specify how many Lines there are. My gut feeling is around 20 - few enough that they'd all be on speaking terms, so to speak. As with everything I do, though, there really isn't a "Bible" of background data. What I know is pretty much what it's in the book. I've never subscribed to the iceberg theory of worldbuilding - the notion that for the 10% you show in the story, you have to "know" 90% more which you never show. Seems like a daft way to go about writing fiction, to me :-)
Wednesday, 30 April 2008 - 4:23 PM MEST
Name: "Joshua Cantara"Thanks so much for the response. I knew the number couldn't have been too large, given how they all seemed to know each other. I just wasn't sure if it was ~7 or ~20.
