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Comment from: kirabug posted at July 1, 2006 6:21 PM

You must not be dead. Gossamer Commons moved.

The Schlock Mercenary book rocks, btw.

Comment from: ItsWalky posted at July 1, 2006 7:31 PM

I am disappointed that "Your mom" is not listed.

Comment from: roninkakuhito posted at July 1, 2006 8:06 PM

Yeah, Jim was a kick in the gut. I admired his approach to publishing and to technology issues and had dreamed of someday selling something to him. I still want to sell to Baen Books, but I always wanted to sell to Jim Baen

Comment from: Merus posted at July 2, 2006 5:49 AM

Man, I wonder how many people are finding it hard to cope with Jim Baen's death.

Are they drinking Jim Bean?

Comment from: Howard Tayler posted at July 2, 2006 9:00 PM

Two things:

1) I made the same to-do list as Jim Baen? Whoa...

2) I made the list TWICE? Crap.

Comment from: Freeptop posted at July 3, 2006 10:20 AM

Until I saw this, I hadn't heard about Jim Baen. After I saw this, I went looking for info.

For those whom this info hit hard, and have not yet seen it, I recommend reading David Drake's obituary of Jim Baen at: http://www.david-drake.com/baen.html

Personally, I'm still stunned.

Comment from: Nentuaby posted at July 3, 2006 1:16 PM

Holy crap... Up until I read this, I had never heard of Jim Baen. Not by name. Now that I've heard the name, I took some time to research him...

He was one of my favorite people in the SF/Fantasy industry, and I never even realized it. :(

Aside from his impact on my favorite authors in the world (Weber and Lackey), the Baen Free Library is easily one of the best things ever. I love it- when all else is equal, I'll grab the Baen book at Borders just out of appreciation- and I knew I had some uniquely enlightened fellow to be thankful for it, but I never quite knew who.

That's a damn shame.

Comment from: mara posted at July 3, 2006 2:44 PM

Dear Mr. Burns:

Please write about my webcomic because it is rad.

Your Best Friend,
Clarence Thomas

Comment from: larksilver posted at July 3, 2006 2:48 PM

Shoot. I'm just glad you're not dead.

Granted, reading all that stuff on your list would be fantabulous. but hey, not dead is good.

Comment from: Eric Burns posted at July 3, 2006 4:07 PM

Solid Snake loves the ladies, baby.

Comment from: roninkakuhito posted at July 3, 2006 5:20 PM

Nentuaby
The free library is nice, but it just scratches the surface.

Baen books is the only fiction publisher that I am aware of that makes a profit selling e-books. They do it by the simple expedient of making sure that when you buy an e-book from them, you have an easy time reading it. You get it in a bunch of formats, none of which use DRM to make it hard for the customer to use the thing they bought. This was Jim Baen's initiative.

The big thing though are the CDs he talked several of his biggest authors into letting him include with their books. David Drake, David Webber, Mercedes Lackey, and John Ringo signed on. With each of nine different books, you can get a cd that contains most if not all of the books by the given author that were published by Baen as well as other books by other Baen authors. All in multiple formats without DRM. Most importantly? They are released under a license that lets you share the files with other people so long as you don't try to sell them or something like that. You can get them all at http://baencd.thefifthimperium.com/ among other places. Several of the authors involved have claimed to have had a jump in their sales both in their books at Baen and their books at other publishers with the release of these CDs.

Comment from: 32_footsteps posted at July 4, 2006 5:20 PM

The problem is that the ladies don't love Snake back. Jennifer has been leading him on for years.

Comment from: Paul Gadzikowski posted at July 4, 2006 9:22 PM

I thought he was dead.

Comment from: miyaa posted at July 5, 2006 8:19 PM

I'm just waiting for Neverwinter Nights 2, coming out this September 1st. (CivCity? Civilization IV: Warlords? What are you thinking, Fireaxis?)

Comment from: SuperHappy posted at July 6, 2006 3:00 PM

Remember to read it while naked.

Comment from: Rich Burlew posted at July 6, 2006 5:46 PM

Is it wrong that I'm nervous knowing that I *will* be snarked soon, but not knowing exactly for *what* I will be snarked? It's like when you got called down to the principal's office, but you didn't know for which violation of discipline it was that you were getting busted.

Comment from: Paul Gadzikowski posted at July 6, 2006 6:18 PM

Except that Eric's post predates it, Rich, I'd've guessed OOTS #328. That's the one I'd've snarked if I were Eric.

Comment from: egometry posted at July 8, 2006 6:37 AM

No Goats? Did the Corn Lesbian from a few weeks back not stir you?

You're not my son. My son is dead. I have no son.

Comment from: Bo Lindbergh posted at July 8, 2006 10:11 AM

Random nonsensical observation: "I'm honestly not dead" sounds so much less interesting than "I'm not honestly dead".

Comment from: miyaa posted at July 8, 2006 3:01 PM

How dead are we talking about here? It's only a flesh wound dead? I'm getting better dead? I just replaced my left hand with a chainsaw and now I'm going to slice up zombies dead? The annoying Perfect Dark Disco music dead?

Now, if you'll excuse me, I have some camomille tea I should drink.

Comment from: Barb posted at July 9, 2006 12:22 AM

Miyaa, I think it's more Princess Bride mostly dead. :)

Comment from: 32_footsteps posted at July 10, 2006 12:42 AM

"I'm not honestly dead" sounds kinda like undeath (because you'd think an honest dead guy would have the decency to not go through the motions of being alive - like having the capability of motion).

Comment from: Plaid Phantom posted at July 10, 2006 1:35 AM

Not dead!? Curses!

Comment from: miyaa posted at July 10, 2006 12:57 PM

Sort of like 7-UP, the Uncola?

Comment from: Mephron posted at July 11, 2006 9:43 AM

I hadn't read any Narbonic before. Then I found out about it going free (I'd let my Modern Tales sub lapse because I lost interest in what I had been reading there), and started reading.

...I LOST A WEEKEND TO HELEN NARBON.

Such evil.

Comment from: McMartin posted at July 11, 2006 12:55 PM

Cower before her, worthless drones.

Comment from: 32_footsteps posted at July 11, 2006 2:37 PM

But Helen Narbon isn't the one flying towards the Artic in a nougat-filled flying island. It's the hamsters.

And I, for one, welcome our hamster overlords.

Comment from: Doc posted at July 11, 2006 10:13 PM

As much as I support needless simpsons referencing, can they really be our overlords if we are all dead (I'm assuming you're not posting from a suspension pod on the floating island)?

Comment from: 32_footsteps posted at July 12, 2006 11:48 AM

But the hamsters haven't rained down Falming Hot Death (tm) upon us all yet. There's still time to brown-nose my way into a suspension pod.

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