Monday I received word from Jen at Tor/Forge that I was one of the winners in The Children of the Skies Sweepstakes. <insert happy dance here> Woohoo!! After my excitement leveled out I began thinking about my copy of A Fire Upon the Deep. I was guessing the ARC for The Children of the Sky would be a trade paperback; meaning it wouldn’t mesh well with this:
Yes, I’m one of those obsessive types who like their books to match up, especially a series–paperbacks with paperbacks and hardbacks with hardbacks. A mass market paperback with a trade paperback is a no no. But this was out of my control and it wasn’t going to stop me from enjoying the book. Then the book books arrived.
Wow!! What a surprise. Thank you, Jen!!
Now you know why Tor/Forge is awesome.
Amanda Makepeace's Imagination Run Amok 
Lucky You! (or more likely, deserving you!) Looking forward to your review. Haven’t read any of Mr. V’s books so it’ll be extra interesting to me.
If you had to say (you don’t have to … of course!), who would you pick as your top 20(*/-) scifi/fantasy authors Amanda? And have you read the Hundred Thousand Kingdoms yet? (I reviewed it and another book recently in a university bookstore blog:
http://www.universitybookstore.blogspot.com
Leave a comment at my post there and my supervisor will give me a bit more credit for what I do. Would really appreciate that move, if you are at all inclined Amanada …
wub,
Jan
I haven’t read Hundred Thousand Kingdoms yet. So much to read!! I will definitely check out your post and comment this evening.
As for the top 20 authors, sounds like my next blog post. 😉
I agree that Tor is awesome, I haven’t won a contest run by them but they just consistently put out fantastic books. As for the actual book, I think a sequel to A Fire Upon the Deep could be very interesting, but to me it would only work if it focused on the planet they are on at the end of the book (I don’t remember the planet’s name). The only parts of Fire Upon the Deep I really enjoyed were the parts on the planet, the parts with people traveling through space weren’t interesting to me and I thought the book would be better without those sections in it.
If I remember correctly the sequel does take place on the planet. I think I may do pre-review post once I’ve read the first 100 pages.
Cool! I agree – they ARE awesome! 🙂
It’s almost as if they were reading my mind! 😀