Bimbos of the Death Sun, by Sharyn McCrumb. It's actually a murder mystery set at a local sci-fi convention. An engineering professor at the local university writes a novel as a thought experiment dealing with the effect sunspots have on a certain kind of computer circuit, which also has the unfortunate effect of destroying the intellects of the women on the station.

The author, Jay Omega, ends up selling it to a cheap paperback publishing house, who rename it Bimbos of the Death Sun, and the cover is as lurid as the name.

He spends the entire novel trying to keep his students from finding out he wrote it, and praying the Women in Engineering chapter on campus doesn't come after him for it.

Added this one to my list. Glad to see the reception is positive.

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I used to stay up late to read all the time as a kid. My mother has since told me that she always felt conflicted about yelling at me to stop reading! It's cute looking back on it.

Wait, y’all still pay premium for old ass books?

I don't know what this subs obsession with tearing this book down is. It's like you all read someone's negative post about it and had to adopt that as your personality. News flash, some people enjoy shallow pop fiction like The Alchemist (hell EEAAO just won best picture), and the way in which it lives rent free in all your heads speaks far more to y'all than to Coelho.

I’ve never used ChatGPT. How can you tell?

Is that the one with Rand in a Puffy white shirt that shows his whole chest and one of his harem next to him?

It can't possibly have anything to do with women being more social than men and men being more object oriented.....

THIS!

Thank you! I was going to say something along those lines.

If copyright worked the way that OP had said, the estates and descendants of authors of works in public domain, or nearing public domain status, could simply tinker with a 100+ year old work by and keep resetting/extending the copyright (of the original) forever.

That's not how public domain works.

Ah yes, made temporarily stupid by measles was a real hero, if I recall.

I agree with everything you've said. Although, I think sexism not being a thing was primarily because there were no lads there. That said Enid Blyton was a bit of a boss in her own right (if a relatively awful mother) so maybe it wouldn't have appeared anyway.

As for Claudine and Carlotta, I used to listen to the audiobooks and my the accents.

IANAL. If IA had only allowed a single copy of the book to be loaned out at one time would they have won their case? From my layman read, I think so.

We make a product that gets easily damaged, so we will charge libraries an obscene amount of money for a format that doesn't.

Mike Carey of Hellblazer fame wrote of series of Urban Fantasy books. Think Constantine but the main character is an exorcist. He wrote 5 books and there was plans for a 6th book that hasnt happened yet and that was 10 years ago.

I just went to look that up, and it’s now on my reading list. The nyt article is cracking me up - apparently Garmus actually got hatemail by readers who were expecting a romance novel.

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It’s so bad, i’m actually laughing. I can’t imagine NOT wanting to read the books i’m designing covers for. That’s half the fun!

You've got the wrong idea about how copyright works.

Re-publishing classic works with minor changes doesn't "re-up" the copyright on the original novel, it only asserts a new copyright on the new, changed edition. The original work will still fall out of copyright according to the laws of the nation you're in.

If you translate Les Miserables into English, you have a copyright on your translation. The descendants of Victor Hugo do not get a brand new copyright on a 150-year-old book, and don't get any slice of your translation, either. But anyone else can translate the book and publish it on their own.

I really love The Sparrow by Mary Doria Russell, but I don't like any of the covers it has been published with. The 2008 covers make the book look like it was bound in the 90s.

Sorry I lost your $1,000 book. Here’s some Goosebumps, now we’re even.

Ahh okay. I guess from a Writer’s POV that helps a bit. I still think it was a strange thing to do after your child died, and I know it can be chalked up to a writer’s creative process and own grieving process but it still felt all too convenient to me though.

I appreciate the response!!

I think the Suess estate was acting in good faith when they pulled a tiny percentage of titles they never intended to edit the books. The unintended effect was disinformation that created a massive uproar along the lines of “Dr. Suess Canceled!” (Thanks Fox News) Which in turn spurred on a huge sales boom for all Suess books. I think others are trying to copy that success.

It's certainly cheaper than that bureaucratic crook, The Wallet Inspector, at least.

It is very hard to get into reading these days as technology takes over more of our free time and it also not so popular any more to read. For me things in life like reading comes in stages. im 37 now and recently discovered the world of audiobooks, and in the last 6 months i listened to far over 100 books. It hasnt been a chose or the least dificult to get into as now is a period in my life that reading is very enjoyable.

2 years ago this would have had to force myself to do this that I now cannot get enough of.

Istarted with Stephen King books. I finnished by reading his new Fairy tale book and that opened up the world of fantasy books for me that I before didnt think I would like after many times trying to read JRR Tolkien and getting bored out of my mind. Maybe in a year or two I will read all of Tolkiens books. Who knows :)

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