Bruce Alford
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Scott Hawkins:
I tell everyone that I can about this book. You're extremely creative. By the way, The Arrival (The Movie) also deals the Sapir-Worf hypothesis. Oh, here's a question: did you get a literary agent?
Scott Hawkins
I did get a literary agent, and it was no joke the best day of my life. The way to truly appreciate a success is to fail at the same thing for thirty years.
I bet Sapir-Worf is very much present in the undermind of a lot of computer geeks of a certain age. Around the time I was an undergrad there was a Vernor Vinge short story titled "True Names and Other Dangers" that tied into Ursula Le Guin's Earthsea stuff and some terms used in academic study of computer science/natural language processing. I probably wasn't the only one who had a light bulb go off when they first heard Sapir Worf.
I bet Sapir-Worf is very much present in the undermind of a lot of computer geeks of a certain age. Around the time I was an undergrad there was a Vernor Vinge short story titled "True Names and Other Dangers" that tied into Ursula Le Guin's Earthsea stuff and some terms used in academic study of computer science/natural language processing. I probably wasn't the only one who had a light bulb go off when they first heard Sapir Worf.
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Michael
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Scott Hawkins:
Scott, I loved this book. The ideas were original in a way I haven't seen in awhile and the characters were great. For some odd reason, whenever I was reading 'Erwin', I couldn't help but here him with Sam Elliott's voice. A little crazy, huh? So... you have to be thinking about a sequel, yes? Carolyn has some serious unfinished to deal with and I'm sure Erwin could handle being her American advisor, right?
Ceyda
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Scott Hawkins:
I'm about half way through The Library at Mount Char and starting the book has been the best decision I've made recently. I really cannot put it down. A sequel or a second novel will be really appreciated:) I always prefer reading the book rather than watching the movie, so don't get me wrong, but I was wondering if there will be any movies or maybe animations (or just something visual) based on the novel?
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