When electronics importer Cara Leon goes missing, private investigator Sam Mujrif is hired by her sister to investigate. Cara is 8 times taller than Sam, but evidence soon points to players much smaller than either of them.
As Sam and his cross-scale colleagues pursue the case, it becomes apparent that Cara’s disappearance is linked to technology with the potential to reshape their whole society, and radically alter the balance of power between the scales.
The completist in me is disproportionately delighted that the eBook for SCALE has finally made its way to the Barnes and Noble Nook store, but if you’re one of the 0.1% of my readers who buy your eBooks there, I hope you’ll be happy too.
https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/scale-greg-egan/1142919060?ean=2940165995200
When electronics importer Cara Leon goes missing, private investigator Sam Mujrif is hired by her sister to investigate. Cara is eight times taller than Sam, but evidence soon points to players much smaller than either of them. As Sam and his cross-scale colleagues pursue the case, it becomes...
@gregeganSF I'm really enjoying Scale. And the detective aspect is making me want to re-read Quarantine for the billionth* time.
* I guess the first time I read it I wasn't re-reading it, so that's an off-by-one error, and it will actually be the 999,999,999th time.
Maybe wait a day and see?
I also see another story collection to be out in May 2023 at Smashwords: "Sleep and the Soul".
@sohkamyung @gregeganSF Yes, sorry - my comment was sort of a joke. Greg Egan and I are both in Australia, where it's been January the 1st for some time already, but presumably Smashwords and/or the publisher isn't.
Thank you for the great news about "Sleep and the Soul".
@tumble @gregeganSF thanks for pointing out something I should have noticed in the linked page myself 🤦
I was looking in https://www.ebooks.com/en-us/searchapp/searchresults.net?term=Scale+by+Greg+Egan and https://www.kobo.com/us/en/search?query=Scale+by+Greg+Egan
At least I got one thing right and imported Scale to my local BookWyrm instance and added it to my "Want to Read" list https://books.mxhdr.net/user/mcrocker/comment/6835 #Bookstodon
@gregeganSF “In the universe of Scale, an electrically neutral atom might contain any mixture of leptons of different masses, so long as their total number, and hence the total negative charge, balances the positive charge of the nucleus.”
Is it in Google Play store yet? Also, does it come with an IQ upgrade?
@jgordon Yes, it’s in the Google Play store.
The story itself is very light on the science; it’s essentially a detective story / political thriller in an alternative universe Earth. So the background notes are there to satisfy people who want *much more* science than the novel contains.
@gregeganSF light on science makes sense, given that we’re getting this one from the point of view of detectives, rather than scientists as in something like The Clockwork Rocket.
I started reading it last night and I’m thoroughly enjoying it. 😃
@dleeahp The linked page includes three links to Amazon UK: for the ebook, and the print-on-demand paperback and hardback.
The print editions are Amazon only (since Amazon is doing the actual printing) but you can buy the ebook at Smashwords or Google Play if you don’t wish to deal with Amazon.
@henryseg @gregeganSF this book cover reminds me very much of the #Sozi presentation tool, http://sozi.guide/en/first-presentation.html , where the presentation is done as a huge #SVG diagram, and some JavaScript code moves through the presentation by combining zooming, translation and rotation of the view to go from one "slide" to the next. Hmmm... #Sozi seems a lot like Scalzi ... 🤔
Edit: typo Solzi -> Sozi
One of Alan Kay's assertions with #Squeak was that PowerPoint is unnecessary. It should be trivial to assemble a slide deck of graphical and text objects without needing some heavy weight, proprietary application to do it.
#Sozi is the same idea. Use whatever SVG tools you like to generate a diagram, then use #Sozi to track on a little bit of JavaScript to orchestrate navigation through the presentation that works in any browser. Simple.
Edit: typo Solzi -> Sozi
@gregeganSF btw, is there a preferred way to pay you directly for a [DRM-free ideally] .epub to use with ones favourite book-reader software (e.g. calibre https://calibre-ebook.com/)?
(realised while drafting the answer to my question is the smashwords link from your site https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/1305954 but will comment anyway because maybe there are other idiots like me who could save themselves some time and perhaps there won't be account registration required nex time around... :)
@gregeganSF This looks seriously interesting - and I see it's on Smashwords, meaning no need to go through Amazon. All the better. 🍽️
Looking forward to reading this one!
@gregeganSF Wild premise. Bought!
Thank you for making this easy to buy -- a sizeable excerpt so I can tell if I might like it, and a DRM-free epub so I'll buy it at all. :-P Love to see it!
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