The Name of the Rose, Baudolino, The Island of the Day Before, Foucault's Pendulum. All good books.

Actually what I was trying to point out is that success does not have to be measured against how you compete against someone else or how much money beyond what the company needs you end up with. It's not a dog-eat-dog world. The world is just what we make of it.

>Frankly, if you have to ask this question you aren't really serious about succeeding. Yep, 'cause the only way to win to make someone else lose.

Go to Stross's website and dig around in the side panel. He has a link to a series of blog articles he wrote describing the economics of the book publisher industry. In short, the vast majority of costs go toward paying editors and the like. The actual costs of paper, printing and binding are less than 10% (if I remember the % correctly - its been a while) of the production costs.

Foglio is an ACTIVE fan and makes comics. If another comic maker should become active within the international science fiction conspir- community, then they would get nominated and voted for also.

Go Dee and Herman!

My RSS list cut off the last word from the title.