Ask the Author: Sasya Fox
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Sasya Fox
I'm looking into it now. I really don't see any issues, but I think the first version of the Kindle book did have DRM turned on (it was default at that time). I tried it with a new account just now, and it seemed to work. (I don't have a kindle, just an iPad / phone with the kindle app.)
That said, I'll go poke around and see if anything looks wrong.
Sorry for all the trouble!
-Sasha
That said, I'll go poke around and see if anything looks wrong.
Sorry for all the trouble!
-Sasha
Sasya Fox
Absolutely! ^_^ Theta is still available from Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00EKKAW0Y/ (alongside Dreams of Refugium—https://www.amazon.com/dp/B078KVX6MZ/).
I just checked, and the "Get a copy" button here on Goodreads seems to work for me, too.
I have the sequel to Theta coming out in a few months, so I'm curious as to what problems you've had both with finding my book and with my website. https://foxprints.org/ seems to work for me, but if you could let me know what you're seeing, I'll take a look.
Thanks for checking in!
-Sasha Fox
I just checked, and the "Get a copy" button here on Goodreads seems to work for me, too.
I have the sequel to Theta coming out in a few months, so I'm curious as to what problems you've had both with finding my book and with my website. https://foxprints.org/ seems to work for me, but if you could let me know what you're seeing, I'll take a look.
Thanks for checking in!
-Sasha Fox
Sasya Fox
This one wasn't as easy to answer as I initially thought it was going to be. The closer I came to an easy answer, the further I found myself from any answer at all!
In my pre-teens, I consumed a steady—if eclectic—diet of Asimov, Heinlein, Tolkien, Niven, Piers Anthony (?!), Pournelle, Margaret Weis (and accordingly Tracy Hickman, of course), plus quite an array of speculative fiction, much of it involving alternative history during various large wars and historical inflection points. I also rabidly consumed "blow-by-blow" ship's log type war stories, most of them set during the naval battles of WWII.
From my teenage years on, I started diverging into Anne McCaffrey, Christopher Rowley, Lois McMaster Bujold, and other more character-driven stories. I also started working with computers in a much more advanced capacity, becoming heavily invested in Unix, networking, and security... which, in a way, was its own unique influence.
So my first instinct was to just answer the question with the standards (Asimov, Heinlein, Tolkien, etc) and tack on the modern greats (Bujold, McCaffrey, Rowley, etc)... but I realized, as I was thinking about it, that the question is more nuanced. I've read many authors whose works I loved, and every experience in my life has influenced my writing ... but the question was about SF authors who influenced my writing, and that is much more difficult for me to narrow down.
In the end, my most undeniably direct influences would have to be Lois McMaster Bujold and Anne McCaffrey. The hard science fiction of my childhood always left me with a bad taste in my mouth, because it wrote tomorrow within the strict constraints of today... and I never liked science fiction without a plausible basis for existence. For me, the stories which moved me most—and thus had the most influence on me—were those set in a future that was plausible without being limited; stories whose characters, and their motivations, drove the plot. Stories which didn't attempt to justify their technology, but had a consistent level of technology consistent with their worldbuilding, even if such worldbuilding was opaque to me. Rowley was also an influence, despite being on the fence between "SF and F." There were innumerable others, but those three have, so far, played the largest role.
Thank you for your question! I hope the answer wasn't too meandering.
-Fox
In my pre-teens, I consumed a steady—if eclectic—diet of Asimov, Heinlein, Tolkien, Niven, Piers Anthony (?!), Pournelle, Margaret Weis (and accordingly Tracy Hickman, of course), plus quite an array of speculative fiction, much of it involving alternative history during various large wars and historical inflection points. I also rabidly consumed "blow-by-blow" ship's log type war stories, most of them set during the naval battles of WWII.
From my teenage years on, I started diverging into Anne McCaffrey, Christopher Rowley, Lois McMaster Bujold, and other more character-driven stories. I also started working with computers in a much more advanced capacity, becoming heavily invested in Unix, networking, and security... which, in a way, was its own unique influence.
So my first instinct was to just answer the question with the standards (Asimov, Heinlein, Tolkien, etc) and tack on the modern greats (Bujold, McCaffrey, Rowley, etc)... but I realized, as I was thinking about it, that the question is more nuanced. I've read many authors whose works I loved, and every experience in my life has influenced my writing ... but the question was about SF authors who influenced my writing, and that is much more difficult for me to narrow down.
In the end, my most undeniably direct influences would have to be Lois McMaster Bujold and Anne McCaffrey. The hard science fiction of my childhood always left me with a bad taste in my mouth, because it wrote tomorrow within the strict constraints of today... and I never liked science fiction without a plausible basis for existence. For me, the stories which moved me most—and thus had the most influence on me—were those set in a future that was plausible without being limited; stories whose characters, and their motivations, drove the plot. Stories which didn't attempt to justify their technology, but had a consistent level of technology consistent with their worldbuilding, even if such worldbuilding was opaque to me. Rowley was also an influence, despite being on the fence between "SF and F." There were innumerable others, but those three have, so far, played the largest role.
Thank you for your question! I hope the answer wasn't too meandering.
-Fox
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