Comments on: The ZERO MOMENT launch party http://www.mgharris.net/2010/02/04/the-zero-moment-launch-party/ Website of MG Harris, author of 'The Joshua Files' children's adventure book series Fri, 30 Jul 2010 06:49:09 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 By: Jens Fort http://www.mgharris.net/2010/02/04/the-zero-moment-launch-party/#comment-2166 Jens Fort Wed, 24 Feb 2010 05:55:35 +0000 http://www.mgharris.net/?p=1050#comment-2166 Hey MG congregation for your book launch “Zero Moment “ :-). Launch party images are very nice. Can you tell me from where can I buy this book I too have a little passion for reading. Keep writing more books. Hey MG congregation for your book launch “Zero Moment “ :-) . Launch party images are very nice. Can you tell me from where can I buy this book I too have a little passion for reading. Keep writing more books.

]]> By: MG http://www.mgharris.net/2010/02/04/the-zero-moment-launch-party/#comment-2161 MG Fri, 19 Feb 2010 18:21:14 +0000 http://www.mgharris.net/?p=1050#comment-2161 Thank you Henning! Thank you Henning!

]]> By: Henning http://www.mgharris.net/2010/02/04/the-zero-moment-launch-party/#comment-2158 Henning Wed, 17 Feb 2010 10:43:42 +0000 http://www.mgharris.net/?p=1050#comment-2158 hi congratulation on another book launch the Zero Moment book seems very good I wish people to buy this book I am thinking of buying this book one for my self keep it up hi congratulation on another book launch the Zero Moment book seems very good I wish people to buy this book I am thinking of buying this book one for my self keep it up

]]> By: MG http://www.mgharris.net/2010/02/04/the-zero-moment-launch-party/#comment-2155 MG Tue, 16 Feb 2010 11:27:15 +0000 http://www.mgharris.net/?p=1050#comment-2155 Wow thanks Lukas, so glad you enjoyed it! As for trying to eke clues out of me re Joshua #4, well I'm going to have to resist being obvious. But you and a few other readers do seem to be on the right track about a few things... "Doctor Who" isn't the biggest influence on time-travel paradox stories like ZM, because the Doctor can't cross his own timeline. What I had in mind when writing is more 'The Door Into Summer' by Robert Heinlein, a terrific story I read when I was a teen. And of course later, "Back to the Future". Thoughts on the 'if you were born later' differ. The witchcraft of astrology says that it totally matters when you were born, so they can charge you to do a birth chart for you. Some people are full-on determinists and think that were they recreated exactly they would always make all the same choices. I prefer to believe we have free choice and it wouldn't always be the same...instead each choice leads us forther up the garden of forking paths... "He believed in an infinite series of times, in a growing, dizzying net of divergent, convergent and parallel times. This network of times which approached one another, forked, broke off, or were unaware of one another for centuries, embraces all possibilities of time. We do not exist in the majority of these times; in some you exist, and not I; in others I, and not you; in others, both of us." Which is of course another big influence on me: "The Garden of Forking Paths" by Borges. You can read it here: http://courses.essex.ac.uk/lt/lt204/forking_paths.htm Wow thanks Lukas, so glad you enjoyed it! As for trying to eke clues out of me re Joshua #4, well I’m going to have to resist being obvious. But you and a few other readers do seem to be on the right track about a few things…

“Doctor Who” isn’t the biggest influence on time-travel paradox stories like ZM, because the Doctor can’t cross his own timeline. What I had in mind when writing is more ‘The Door Into Summer’ by Robert Heinlein, a terrific story I read when I was a teen.

And of course later, “Back to the Future”.

Thoughts on the ‘if you were born later’ differ. The witchcraft of astrology says that it totally matters when you were born, so they can charge you to do a birth chart for you. Some people are full-on determinists and think that were they recreated exactly they would always make all the same choices.

I prefer to believe we have free choice and it wouldn’t always be the same…instead each choice leads us forther up the garden of forking paths…

“He believed in an infinite series of times, in a growing, dizzying net of divergent, convergent and parallel times. This network of times which approached one another, forked, broke off, or were unaware of one another for centuries, embraces all possibilities of time. We do not exist in the majority of these times; in some you exist, and not I; in others I, and not you; in others, both of us.”

Which is of course another big influence on me: “The Garden of Forking Paths” by Borges.
You can read it here:
http://courses.essex.ac.uk/lt/lt204/forking_paths.htm

]]> By: Lukas http://www.mgharris.net/2010/02/04/the-zero-moment-launch-party/#comment-2153 Lukas Mon, 15 Feb 2010 18:09:54 +0000 http://www.mgharris.net/?p=1050#comment-2153 I finished Zero Moment the other day, well done MG. You took the books in the right direction. I was unsure when i first heard the mention of time travel being a main part of the plot, as it is a very tricky concept and hard to write into a story, but i'm guessing a few years of watching sci-fi's like Doctor Who paid off eh? Well done for including the "time is a river" analogy, making it much easier for a general audience to understand yes? So reading that part of Dark Parralel included in the back, (which by the way i was very relieved to see, as i had to read more) it got me thinking about why it's called Dark Parralel. Theory 1) Josh enters a parralel dimension? Theory 2) The other part of the time is a river analogy, if time is like a river, when you change time, part of the river branches off, and runs parralel to the river and rejoins later, or something along those lines, hence parralel. Theory 3) Josh creates the butterfly effect. All this time travel got me thinking, if i was born a day later, would i be a different person? I finished Zero Moment the other day, well done MG. You took the books in the right direction. I was unsure when i first heard the mention of time travel being a main part of the plot, as it is a very tricky concept and hard to write into a story, but i’m guessing a few years of watching sci-fi’s like Doctor Who paid off eh? Well done for including the “time is a river” analogy, making it much easier for a general audience to understand yes? So reading that part of Dark Parralel included in the back, (which by the way i was very relieved to see, as i had to read more) it got me thinking about why it’s called Dark Parralel. Theory 1) Josh enters a parralel dimension? Theory 2) The other part of the time is a river analogy, if time is like a river, when you change time, part of the river branches off, and runs parralel to the river and rejoins later, or something along those lines, hence parralel. Theory 3) Josh creates the butterfly effect.
All this time travel got me thinking, if i was born a day later, would i be a different person?

]]> By: jed http://www.mgharris.net/2010/02/04/the-zero-moment-launch-party/#comment-2152 jed Tue, 09 Feb 2010 19:26:55 +0000 http://www.mgharris.net/?p=1050#comment-2152 :( :| :( :|

]]> By: jed http://www.mgharris.net/2010/02/04/the-zero-moment-launch-party/#comment-2151 jed Tue, 09 Feb 2010 19:24:43 +0000 http://www.mgharris.net/?p=1050#comment-2151 congratulation on another succesful book, i am just sad because i prordered mine in 2009 on amazon and it STILL hasnt arrived. i wanna win the map competition! congratulation on another succesful book,
i am just sad because i prordered mine in 2009 on amazon and it STILL hasnt arrived.
i wanna win the map competition!

]]> By: Haddon Davies http://www.mgharris.net/2010/02/04/the-zero-moment-launch-party/#comment-2149 Haddon Davies Tue, 09 Feb 2010 10:42:59 +0000 http://www.mgharris.net/?p=1050#comment-2149 Congrats on another great launch party (keep them coming) but on a much more serious note, I had more than my fair share of the Nutella-laden cup-cakes, which were seriously addictive but in a nice way! Mark was clearly envious but never got off his stool to get one, I noticed. Congrats on another great launch party (keep them coming) but on a much more serious note, I had more than my fair share of the Nutella-laden cup-cakes, which were seriously addictive but in a nice way! Mark was clearly envious but never got off his stool to get one, I noticed.

]]> By: MG http://www.mgharris.net/2010/02/04/the-zero-moment-launch-party/#comment-2139 MG Fri, 05 Feb 2010 11:45:13 +0000 http://www.mgharris.net/?p=1050#comment-2139 Hello gomel and thanks! There's an even split between Joshua Insiders and Agents of Ek Naab. (you may have seen only one of the FB threads, I have several Joshua readers lists). So I was thinking of running a poll. Hello gomel and thanks!
There’s an even split between Joshua Insiders and Agents of Ek Naab. (you may have seen only one of the FB threads, I have several Joshua readers lists). So I was thinking of running a poll.

]]> By: gomel http://www.mgharris.net/2010/02/04/the-zero-moment-launch-party/#comment-2138 gomel Fri, 05 Feb 2010 11:21:46 +0000 http://www.mgharris.net/?p=1050#comment-2138 Congrats, MG! So, follow-up the message on facebook, what should we call the Joshua fans? It has been set? Congrats, MG!
So, follow-up the message on facebook, what should we call the Joshua fans? It has been set?

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