So, then.

[anghara]

Worldweavers #1 is out, and it's imminently due in paperback.

Worldweavers #2 is less than two months away.

And, just to whet your appetites... Worldweavers #3... the book that concludes these adventures... has THIS guy as a major character:

Few remember him. Some of those who do know the name but can't place quite why.

Nikola Tesla, New Wizard of the West, take a bow.

Comments

[julesjones]

Ooh! Very, very shiny. :-)

[takrann.livejournal.com]

Now you're talking! Tesla is one of the criminally unsung great inventive geniuses of the 20th century. A remarkable human being in many ways. So many of his achievements have been stolen from him and erroneously attributed to others. Like so much confusion surrounding him, people still argue over whether he was a Serb or a Croat! And he was, quite frankly, duped by Edison, for whom he worked and who just called it 'business'!

One of the great visionary geniuses of the 20th century about which much nonsense has been written and which often obscures his true achievements. But certainly much grist for the fantasy mill in those speculations! Should be good!

[dichroic.livejournal.com]

Tesla Motors seems to be getting a lot of attention these days. Clearly at least one person at that company knows who he is (as well as anyone who stayed with Spider Robinson through the Lady Sally books).

[silkensteel.livejournal.com]

You're asking the wrong person here... my college housemates were into explosives and spark-gap capacitors. In a BIG way. :)

You should have seen our electric bill some months. Teehee!

[alexjay.livejournal.com]

This short actually annoyed me--surprising when you consider how much I love Tesla (on my shelves are three biographies, several books which feature him as a character, and two or three of his own books), but let me explain.

Its authors give almost no weight to the crackpottedness of his later years, and in fact give the opposite impression.

His many compulsions and aversions are either underrepresented, or are presented as charming quirks.

They give more weight to the thing he did not achieve--the wireless transmission of energy--than to the many, many, many things he DID.

And, most damning, they play into the idiocies of the conspiracy theorists who have adopted Tesla as their own, with the intimation of the existence of a weather-control system.

In short, they have taken the understandable admiration--even awe--of a supergenius, and made it into a religion.
Rather than celebrate a man as the greatest combination of theoretical and practical scientist ever to walk the earth, they have chosen instead to elevate him to the status of a demigod.

This deification takes away from the sheer greatness of the man, and that I cannot abide.

(As for YOU Teslafying your book, though, I wholeheartedly approve.)