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prog ([personal profile] prog) wrote2007-09-05 06:05 pm
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Draco Concordans

My friend and colleague Zarf ([livejournal.com profile] 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.