Draco Concordans
Sep. 5th, 2007 06:05 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
progMy friend and colleague Zarf (![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
radiotelescope) released his exhaustively researched concordance for John M. Ford's The Dragon Waiting, an epic and extremely twisty novel set in alternate-history Renaissance Europe. Z's effort is a sprawling, link-n-anchor-intensive website, just the kind an information geek like me likes to see. It took him months.
Not that I've read the book, so I can't speak for that angle of it. I hadn't directly heard of John M. Ford until his untimely death last year, which shocked and saddened the greater SF community. I have been exposed to some of his more lightweight work since - he was quite prolific on certain skiffy blogs - but have yet to read any of his heavier stuff. My chance of picking up this novel sometime has increased, anyway.
radiotelescope) released his exhaustively researched concordance for John M. Ford's The Dragon Waiting, an epic and extremely twisty novel set in alternate-history Renaissance Europe. Z's effort is a sprawling, link-n-anchor-intensive website, just the kind an information geek like me likes to see. It took him months.Not that I've read the book, so I can't speak for that angle of it. I hadn't directly heard of John M. Ford until his untimely death last year, which shocked and saddened the greater SF community. I have been exposed to some of his more lightweight work since - he was quite prolific on certain skiffy blogs - but have yet to read any of his heavier stuff. My chance of picking up this novel sometime has increased, anyway.