Monday, January 04, 2010, 4:22:22 PM
Shaun Duncan     IP: 205.172.12.221

Wow. Just wow. I read In the Net of Dreams when I was in high school, and even after availing myself of other wonderful sci-fi/fantasy authors, the book still ranks as one of my favorites. It is a benchmark that I recall with great fondness even now. When one combines the fact that the author (I recently discovered) lives in Kansas (I live in Wichita, and claim Kansas as my adopted home), it makes me proud to know that such a wonderful artist is also a Kansan.

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I too would be interested if you are going to write any more books in the Half Dead series. I enjoyed to others and the last book did not feel like the series was finished.

I've been enjoying your series about the non - vampire ( unvampire ? ) Chris Csjethe,and I was wondering if you have any plans to extend the collection with another volume or two. Thanks for the inspiration and all the wonderful puns so far!

Hei Infrastructure klooper in spite of my english jer, buti danged unsettled re say .

As I continue to make headway on developing the new website, I'm discovering lost files--such as this old guestbook. It's been hidden off on an abandoned siding for a couple of years but lets see if we can't get it up and running again.

My apologies to all who posted and did not get a timely reply. I promise to do better, now.

Wm. Mark Simmons

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Wow! You guys are way cool. I'd love to visit someday too. Keep up the great work!

Thank you, Thank you, Thank you for writing entertaining books of wit, humor and intelligence. Even with an educational background in myth and religion I still learn things reading and rereading the Dreamlands series. Of course the pop culture references and bad puns are delightful, even when they make you groan, but the technical stuff is a bit beyond my ken as I'm rather like Harry Dresden with regards to so-called hi-tech gadgets, lucky to be able to change the clocks for daylight savings. So I learn as I read from that angle as well as I'm being so throughly entertained. Thank you, Thank you, Thank you!

Hey! I love your books. I've read each of the Half-life books several times, and the Dreamland Chronicles twice (I would read it more, but I have to basically set aside a week if I want to get through it all). I look forward to your new book, and hope the series continues forever (Not likely, I know, but I prefer to wish big).
Thank you for gifting the world with your writing!

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Have been reading your books for years. Was happy when Baen picked them up. Keep writing and how do I get a look at the new Dead Easy?

I found your books about a year ago through the Baen Webscription site. I'm not usually a huge fan of staright horror stuff, but I have to say I have hugely enjoyed the half-life series (would love to see you other books at webscriptions). Of course anything that pokes fun at tired old cliches (while making appropriately obscure references) is always going to tickle my fancy!

In addition, as a 'professional' molecular biologist I love the idea of a plausible scientific reason for vampirism, especially the one you came up with. Here's a thought for you, do vampires shed skin and or gut epithelial cells (do these cells die?). Perhaps this is why they can only drink blood... Ever regenerating telomeres could definitely cause some sort of problems. Scientific what ifs are far more interesting than REAL science!

Anyway thanks a lot for the great entertainment and fun times...

RGH

Found your books just a while back and love your offbeat sense of humor. Tahnks for the fun reading.

Hi Mark, just thouht I would say hi, from a very old friend.

Visiting. Dead Easy won't come soon enough. Enjoyed One Foot in the Grave very much.

I found it! Persimmons just found me a bunch of fruit, so I did a search for you and it popped right up! I knew it should have been "PerSimmons."

I'd stay on and surf more but handbells call. :)

You're lucky I've never gotten to see the Tv program. I've only ever heard the radio program. They didn't have the female answering service in the radio plays. I figured you ment the "Sam" at thte end of the first novel. I'm sorry ;)

I was referring to Richard Diamond's "Sam", his female answering service. We never saw her face in the TV series but Mary Tyler Moore's legs made their on-screen debut in the role...

Hmm... Sam I guess through the transition and growth he would have resemble Bogart. Definately Bogart.

I just discovered your web page while cruising around Baen's site. I enjoyed your Half Life series enormously, so I check every few months to see if/when the next installment will be published.
Don't worry about Katrina being old news by the time Dead Easy is published. Events of that magnitude become a part of our mental landscape. There is an absolutely marvelous book, Jumper, by Steven Gould, that was written in 1992, well before 9/11, and includes an eerie scene in which a middle eastern terrorist is dropped off the top of the World Trade Center. I read the book in 2004 and it still made a chill run up my spine. Just have a note put on the jacket about the coincidence of your book being submitted for publication immediately prior to the dunking of "The Big Squeegie."

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