Marti Dolata
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Lois McMaster Bujold:
Not really a question, but something I thought you might find interesting. Based on my buying Prisoner of Limnos, Amazon thinks I would like Sunday's Child by Grace Craven, Snowspelled by Stephanie Burgis, Quillifer by Walter Jon Williams, Paladin of Souls by somebody or other, The Mongrel Saga by LE Modesitt, Ballista by Steven Brust, Forged in Fire by Olan Thorensen, and Book Night on Union Station by EMFoner. ?
Lois McMaster Bujold
Heh. I have no idea how Amazon's algorithms work. Good for me, though, because my works turn up on lots of pages through those connections, which may well be the only way some readers learn of them.
Walter Jon Williams is good, though; I like Steve Brust but no idea what Ballista is; I've only read half of one Modesitt -- inventive but PoV character seemed to lack interiority. The rest I do not know, because I have been buried so deep in the avalanche of popular culture I may never be found alive.
Does anyone know how Amazon comes up with these? I would assume some mechanized statistical buying survey...
Ta, L.
Heh. I have no idea how Amazon's algorithms work. Good for me, though, because my works turn up on lots of pages through those connections, which may well be the only way some readers learn of them.
Walter Jon Williams is good, though; I like Steve Brust but no idea what Ballista is; I've only read half of one Modesitt -- inventive but PoV character seemed to lack interiority. The rest I do not know, because I have been buried so deep in the avalanche of popular culture I may never be found alive.
Does anyone know how Amazon comes up with these? I would assume some mechanized statistical buying survey...
Ta, L.
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Rupert Morrish
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Lois McMaster Bujold:
Just visited my son who lives in Mears Park, St. Paul. It's a one-block park, surrounded by tall modern buildings, with an artificial stream running through it and brick pathways among the plantings. It felt so familiar I started looking around for the two-century old mansion in four stories and two wings protected by a force field. Any connection?
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