Subj : Some of my all time favorite authors are ones published by Baen. I?m To : August Abolins From : John Dovey Date : Sun Jul 11 2021 23:02:12 Glad to see you, August! AA> Hello John Dovey! AA> AA> ** On Sunday 11.07.21 - 04:34, John Dovey wrote to All: AA> JD>> Some of my all time favorite authors are ones published by JD>> Baen. I?m personal friends with two of them. Larry is one, JD>> but I?m really good mates with Tom Kratman. His wife is JD>> Panamanian and she?s become good friends with my wife as JD>> well AA> AA> I see a common thing with the authors [Kratman, Correia] you AA> mention: military sci-fi / fantasy. I wasn't particularly AA> aware of that mix. AA> AA> Wrt Baen, Simon&Schuster seems to be their distributor. S&S is AA> the slowest biz to work with. As a result, I've generally AA> skipped checking their catalog. And.. I see Kratman and AA> Correia are with Baen. No wonder they never appeared on my AA> radar. AA> AA> Star Trek novels (of which I am out of since 2018) are also a AA> kind of shootem up military sci-fi ..and those too are AA> distributed by S&S. I see a correlation here! :D AA> -- AA> ../|ug Definitely a correlation ;-) Check out David Weber as well. The Honor Harrington series. Think Hornblower, but female ? and in space ? *** [Netmail-to-Telegram address: 474405162@2:460/256] .... Tag, you are IT! --- tg BBS v0.7.1 * Origin: Fido by Telegram BBS from Stas Mishchenkov (2:460/256) .