{"id":283,"date":"2019-03-17T16:34:17","date_gmt":"2019-03-18T02:34:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scripsit.com\/website\/?p=283"},"modified":"2019-07-19T10:19:31","modified_gmt":"2019-07-19T20:19:31","slug":"buy-me-please","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/scripsit.com\/website\/2019\/03\/17\/buy-me-please\/","title":{"rendered":"Buy me, please."},"content":{"rendered":"

I dislike being out of print and have grown tired of hearing myself whine about it, so I took the backlist into my own hands and have republished\u00a0 most of my novels myself, covers and all. So, I am for sale and can be purchased, and am trying my hand at a modest effort at self-promotion. I’m not very good at it, but am confident that with some practice I will become quite annoying.<\/p>\n

“Marta Randall is a sensational, subtle, precise, and gorgeous writer.” Karen Joy Fowler, author of The Jane Austen Book Club, Sarah Canary,<\/em> and Artificial Things.<\/em><\/p>\n

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ISLANDS<\/strong> <\/a>\u00a0A Nebula Award nominee.<\/p>\n

Science has conquered death, except for Tia Hamley. The Immortals, forever young and beautiful, turn life into games and baubles; fated to age and die, Tia demands that her life have meaning and searches for it from the amusement park of ice-free Antarctica to the land of damaged outcasts in Australia to an underwater expedition to the sunken Hawaiian islands. Her Immortal companions pillage the ruins for knick-knacks while she seeks mysteries. And finds them.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt is, unapologetically, science fiction, doing the work that literature does. Randall creates a world that is vivid and consistent, just strange enough to remind you, on every page, that we are in a future world, but always human.\u201d\u00a0Joseph Minion, Amazon.com<\/p>\n

A City in the North:\u00a0Reconsidered<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

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Why \u201creconsidered?\u201d For one thing, I was very youngwhen I wrote A City in the North, and thought I knew a lot about a lot. As I grew older I realized that I knew increasingly little about little. \u00a0The book still concerns itself with things I continue to find compelling: \u201ccivilized\u201d society and cultural disconnects; relationships between sapient beings; the intersection of explorers, colonizers, and the colonized;\u00a0 adventure.\u00a0And I admit that I am compelled to mess with things.\u00a0Despite that last, I think this is now a stronger book, and a better one. I hope you agree.<\/p>\n

“Marta Randall\u2019s A City in the North<\/em> (1976), is a work of anthropological SF that focuses on \u201cauthentic\u201d relationships between its human and alien characters. A commentary on the societal effects and cultural disconnects between natives, explorers, and colonizers, A City in the North\u00a0<\/em>refuses to provide easy answers. Although retreating into an occasional stock evil character to jolt the plot forward, on the whole Randall\u2019s novel intrigues and provokes due to the underlying mysteries of native culture and ritual.”\u00a0 Joachim Boaz<\/a><\/p>\n

Journey<\/a> <\/strong><\/p>\n

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The first book in the Kennerin Saga. <\/em><\/p>\n

Fleeing the disapproval of Earth\u2019s patrician families, Jason and Mish Kennerin have come to Aerie; distant, insular, inhabited by the enigmatic kasirene. Here they carve out a new life for themselves and their growing family, until the death of a nearby planetary system forces them to open their world, and their lives, to the chaos of change and the genesis of an empire they both crave and resist.<\/p>\n

\u201cMarta Randall has taken the popular, family saga-type novel and turned it into a major\u00a0 piece of science fiction. \u2026 \u2026 This is the best original novel I\u2019ve read so far this year. Highly recommended.\u201d
\nCharles N. Brown, writing in Isaac Asimov\u2019s<\/p>\n

\"\"Dangerous Games<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

The sequel to Journey. The eponymous novella\u00a0 was a Nebula award finalist.<\/em><\/p>\n

Sometimes, to preserve a world, you must be ready to destroy it. The complicated and vibrant world of Haven is too rich a plum to be left in peace. This is the story of the people who cherish it, the people who want to conquer it, and the people who drive it to the edge of ruin. Forced by destiny and circumstance, the Kennerins, and those who love and hate them, pursue their separate fates from the reaches of deep space to Haven\u2019s smallest islands, in a series of Dangerous Games where the stakes include the world and timeless, enigmatic tauspace.<\/p>\n

\u201cMarta Randall \u2026 just goes right along getting better\u2026 one of the finer novels to appear in years.\u201d Science Fiction Chronicle<\/p>\n

Collected Stories<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0 \"\"<\/p>\n

13 previously uncollected stories by writer and teacher Marta Randall, now including The View from Endless Scarp<\/em> in addition to Lapidary Nights, The Dark Boy, L\u00e1zaro y Antonio, Big Dome, Sea Changes, On Cannon Beach,<\/em> and Nebula Award finalist novella Dangerous Games.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I dislike being out of print and have grown tired of hearing myself whine about it, so I took the backlist into my own hands and have republished\u00a0 most of my novels myself, covers and all. So, I am for sale and can be purchased, and am trying my hand at a modest effort at … Continue reading “Buy me, please.”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,1,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-283","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-stories","category-uncategorized","category-writing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/scripsit.com\/website\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/283","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/scripsit.com\/website\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/scripsit.com\/website\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/scripsit.com\/website\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/scripsit.com\/website\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=283"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"http:\/\/scripsit.com\/website\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/283\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":299,"href":"http:\/\/scripsit.com\/website\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/283\/revisions\/299"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/scripsit.com\/website\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=283"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/scripsit.com\/website\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=283"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/scripsit.com\/website\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=283"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}