There’s really not a lot I’m going to say at the moment about this, except that it’s On Amazon Now!
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“… a rare treat! A stunning literary debut… recommended.”
- A. Felber, NPR
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…and I’m very, very excited.
Sure, the artwork might change. But… there it is.
Fanny Roborat
37 comments
dee
January 13, 2006 at 7:07 pm
1Well, it’s got scope.
Look for similar items by subject
Ex-Presidents
Fiction
Fiction-General
Friendship
General
Humorous
Physicists.
cooper
January 13, 2006 at 7:57 pm
2Okay, so this Felber guy @ NPR seems to like your book, Adam. Great. And yes, yes, that should help sales with the Lefty’s. But the acid test is “What does Edith Layton think?”. You get her on board - well, that’s as good as Ophra!
Cal
January 13, 2006 at 8:16 pm
3You should get into the partners program at Amazon–then you’d get a piece of any book sold off your site. Make money twice off the same sale!
Mojo
January 13, 2006 at 8:16 pm
4Customers who bought this book also bought
- Zen and the Art of Autoerotic Asphyxiation
- The Secret Policeman’s Other Ball
- It Takes a Village Idiot
ice weasel
January 13, 2006 at 10:28 pm
5CONGRATULATIONS!
Don’t long release dates suck? Me. I’d be going crazy waiting for the thing to come out. You must have nerves of steel.
And I think the idea of you doing a signing of the book at Felberpalooza is an excellent one. Maybe a reading too?
SeattleDan
January 13, 2006 at 10:39 pm
6I’m looking forward to reading it as well as stocking it in my bookstore.Congrats, Adam.
onlyalurker
January 14, 2006 at 7:48 am
7Pre-ordered with 1-Click!
Tiffany
January 14, 2006 at 11:00 am
8Michael noticed it on Suzy’s site and told me about it. Congratulations are certainly in order. We may even be able to deliver those in person, as we live just south of Salt Lake City and hope to attend the Wait Wait taping next month.
cooper
January 14, 2006 at 1:37 pm
9In case you’re interested, the name for the new NSA secret domestic spying law is “USA GOLDEN MOUNTAIN EAGLE FLAG SPARKLE Act - as reported in Get Your War On by David Rees. Of course, this will probably get him time in the Big “Black” House for revealing State Secrets In a Time of War Against Evildoers and Haters of Liberty. Quite a shame, since he’s a funny guy and I’ll miss him. The previous statement is not to be construed in such a way as to indicate a an affinity towards enemies of Ruling Regime. Honest to goodness, I love America and will obey all her laws and would never think unpure thoughts of ACKKKKK!!!…
Murray
January 14, 2006 at 3:43 pm
10Adam,
“This book made me laugh, it made me cry, it made me think in ways I never had before. Of all the books I’ve never read, this is by far the best!” Murray, Grouseland.
Feel free to put this on the jacket.
Interesting that this Labor Day I will be having “Schrotenboer’s Ball”. So close.
Auros
January 14, 2006 at 3:45 pm
11Adam, do you have an Amazon Associate account? If you did, I’d use your custom link to buy the book. If not, I’ll be using:
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0812974425/ref=nosim/strangehor izons
If anyone else wants to use that too, Strange Horizons would appreciate it, and it doesn’t cost you anything.
Sheriff Lugar Axehandle, Heater County, CA
January 14, 2006 at 5:38 pm
12…Sure, the artwork might change.
The cover looks like it was hatched-up by some kinda dope-addled, free-thinking, commie-pinko, evildoing cat juggler and all I can say is, it’s a damn good thing you don’t live in my jurisdiction… boy.
Pete IVDL
January 14, 2006 at 5:45 pm
13Dude, why isn’t your name in bigger letters than the title, like Leon Uris, or Tom Clancy? I’d be talking to my publicist.
Congratufuckinglations on getting published, mate. It’s something I’ve always wanted to do, but I can’t seem to finish And another thing…
Pete IVDL
January 14, 2006 at 5:52 pm
14Ohhhh, duuuude, the price is already down to $11.99… and it’s not even released yet. Maybe you should’ve gone with Barnes & Noble. Or Black Books.
Still, the SooperSaver shipping is appealing. To continental US residents.
I’ve spent over AUD$3,000 (that would be around US$1.47) with Amazon over the last 6 years, and they never, ever, offer shipping discounts to me. Bastards.
cooper
January 14, 2006 at 8:08 pm
15Pete, it’s your hoidy-toidy Van Dieman’s Land address. They see you for what you are - part of the yatch clubbing, wine & cheese Hoy Paloy and they are jealous. Plus you live with a voluptuous redhead with one of those sexy, puckishly nasal Ozzie accents. God, they hate you! Just don’t order anything edible from them; no telling what they’ll put in it!
Harold
January 14, 2006 at 11:29 pm
16From my as-yet-unwritten review:
“Schrodinger’s Ball, Adam Felber’s first book, takes its title from the name of one of the founding lights of Quantum Physics and possibly one of his testicles. Or perhaps a dance he held at his phat palatial mansion. Regardless, this is clearly Felber’s best book so far.”
I like the idea of setting up a link to buy your own book from Amazon. I bet they have rules against that. Now, if we were to set up a link from the Felberpalooza site…
Maximum Bob
January 15, 2006 at 12:35 am
17I always thought the best review for a comic novel was Groucho’s: “From the time I picked it up to the time I put it down, I couldn’t stop laughing. Someday I hope to read it.”
Seriously, Adam, best of luck with the book. In keeping with its theme, I plan to both read and not read it.
M. Brothers
January 15, 2006 at 9:56 am
18Chico: “So, Maxie, what am I? Two week old risotto? Listen, Adam, lessa words, mora pictures!”
Harpo:
Jay
January 15, 2006 at 11:49 pm
19SeattleDan,
Could you post the name of your bookstore. I have this quaint notion of buying all my books from independents (we have quite a few here in Olympia) and would gladly buy from you as well.
Regards,
Jay
Landis
January 15, 2006 at 11:57 pm
20Maximum Bob - I also intend to keep with the title by both buying and not buying the book.
Ann
January 16, 2006 at 5:32 am
21Hoi palloi: The common people; the masses.
Sorry, I just had to.
The Editor
SeattleDan
January 16, 2006 at 3:02 pm
22Thanks,Jay. The name of my store is Jackson Street Books. I appreciate very much that folk like yourself support independent bookstores.
David
January 16, 2006 at 3:03 pm
23All right, Felbernauts, today, January 16, is the 98th birthday of my still fully sentient father, a hoi polloi sculpture/carpenter. He graduated from the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts in 1936, then worked as a carpenter post-WWII to make sure my two sisters, brother, mother, and I had food, shelter, and fatherly love for which I can only say, Damned was I lucky (and still am to have him with me). So FA community, toast my father in whatever way you deem appropriate (he will drink wine from a cardboard dispenser, if that is all that is available).
ice weasel
January 16, 2006 at 3:09 pm
24If you go to the Felberpalooza site, there is now a link to buy Adam’s book. This link credits the Felberpalooza site as an associate. I’ve set it up so that it pays off in Amazon gift certificates. I will take ALL of the money, spend it on toys to use as prizes during Felberpalooza.
There is also a generic Amazon search link there. Any pf your purchases through that link will also toss a few nickels in the Felberpalooza hat.
Thanks very much.
http://www.convergencetime.com/felberpalooza/
ice weasel
January 16, 2006 at 3:12 pm
25Damn, sorry, it’s been a crazy week already.
If Adam eventually does put a link up on FA so that he can actually collect cash )or whatever, I’ll immeidately remove the Felberpalooza link. I’m not trying to edge out Adam in any way. He deserves the cash (or toys). Just trying to make sure that someone gets the kickback (in the best republican tradition).
By the way, anyone here live in Quebec? Going to Carnival this year? I think Mrs. Weasel and I will be. It would be great to seeing a friendly Felber face there.
cooper
January 16, 2006 at 3:25 pm
26Ann, my bad. Thanks for setting me straight on “hoi polloi”. Common mistake - often confused with the meaning for “hoity-toity”, which I noticed I also spelled wrong. I gotta start looking this stuff up.
Maximum Bob
January 16, 2006 at 3:50 pm
27Happy birthday to your dad, David. I wasn’t planning to drink anything today, but now I guess I have to.
Ibid
January 16, 2006 at 4:29 pm
28Why are you using an Amazon link? There’s plenty of other online bookstores that don’t have the morals of the President of “The Lobbyists for Bush Society”.
cooper
January 16, 2006 at 6:33 pm
29Happy Birthday to David’s dad. 98, huh? I guess you’ll need candles coming out of the side of the cake. May I be so lucky! One Sam Adams down the hatch, in honor of the birthday boy!
This reminds me, my dad would have been 96 one week from today, but he smoked far too much, for far too long - A nasty habit he picked up in WWII. Cut down at the tender age of 70.
Pete IVDL
January 16, 2006 at 8:15 pm
30kaff kaff gasp splutter - coop, you made me spit my Tasmanian Brie all over the deck. Damnit, man, I’ll have to get the naturally BLONDE (but admittedly red-headed in some of my dreams mumblemumble) Significant Other to get the hoipolloi, Bruce, (or his wife, Bruce) to wash down the teak decking with a bottle of Moonambel Cabernet Shiraz. Or a nice Perth Pink!
Eeeeemanuel Kant was a real pissant…
hedera
January 17, 2006 at 1:13 am
31Another happy birthday to David’s dad, more power to his elbow!
Birthday cake tip: if you use one large candle per decade, and then smaller ones for the odd years, you don’t have to have nearly as many fire extinguishers on hand…
Thank you, Ann, I almost corrected it myself.
Ann
January 17, 2006 at 5:11 am
32It goes without saying that the hoi polloi don’t use the term “hoi polloi.” Only the truly edumacated do.
And happy birthday, David’s Dad! As I’m still in Denmark, I’ll drink some snaps.
David
January 17, 2006 at 5:20 pm
33I’ll be reading all the birthday posts to Dad.
We went with the numeral candles, hedera, so it took only two. Didn’t want to risk Dad getting caught up in the conflagration.
Fortunate that Dad’s WWII experience didn’t get him hooked on Lucky Strikes or any of the other cigarettes that were so thoughtfully given free to the soldiers in appreciation for their sacrifices.
Maximum Bob, Dad will be glad to know he provided you with an excuse to wet your whistle, as he likes to put it.
Snaps in Denmark, Ann - that will really put a smile on his face. He spent time in Copenhagen in ‘36, so it will bring back some great memories.
Onward to the century mark, sentience intact, lubricated with a daily glass for the heart’s and the mind’s sake.
Murray
January 17, 2006 at 7:55 pm
34Hell, I have a friend who’s a few years older than I am and instead of candles we just light the lawn on fire. (She never sees the humor).
David
January 18, 2006 at 11:59 pm
35Love it, Murray.
Pete IVDL
January 19, 2006 at 8:34 am
36Murray, if she doesn’t see the humour in a burning lawn, heck, try penny-bungers in her letterbox. You gotta love that!
A good mate of mine’s mum and dad are Greek, so burning their lawn would be counter-productive. At least, until someone figures out a way to burn concrete painted green. That’s where the explosives option becomes more attractive. Mind you, Andrew’s dad also supplies the explosives… Tragedy or comedy?
David
January 19, 2006 at 4:09 pm
37All right, Pete IVDL,
What are penny-bungers? My imagination is running wild at the moment.
If you get concrete hot enough, it will explode of its own accord, hurling small bits of masonry and aggregate in all unobstructed directions at pretty high velocities, making for a kind of ultra-low tech hand grenade. This aside is your fault for not including up front what in hell penny-bungers are.