Has anyone actually ordered and received a copy yet?
[Friday-morning update]
Well, as you can see in comments, we have disparate results. One person has received it, one is going to next week, and one got a message that it’s a month away. So huh.
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I just ordered a copy, and the email confirmation said:
Your estimated delivery date is:
Thursday, January 2, 2014 –
Thursday, January 9, 2014
Well, I sure hope that’s wrong. It’s POD. I don’t know why it would take a month.
Just got this in email:
We have good news! We’re able to get this part of your order to you faster than we originally promised:
Simberg, Rand E. “Safe Is Not an Option”
Previous estimated arrival date: January 02, 2014 – January 09, 2014
New estimated arrival date: December 11, 2013
So the book order was mixed in with other stuff that was backordered?
That is good news. It means that a lot of people (all three of you) who ordered the book this week will have it early next.
I don’t know why they phrase it the way they did, but the book was the only item in the order, so it wasn’t mixed with anything else backordered.
Just general weirdness.
FYI, I just got my copy delivered.
Great! I demand a review at Amazon tomorrow. (Just kidding)
I ordered a copy for the XCOR library, still pending:
Preparing for Shipment
Delivery Estimate Tuesday, December 10, 2013 by 8:00pm
Safe Is Not An Option
Simberg, Rand E
Sold by Amazon.com LLC
Glad you did that, Doug, but I’ll be bringing up a bunch this month, both to satisfy Kickstarter obligations, and as a contribution to XCOR library.
Payed over a year ago kickstarter for dead tree version, when will it arrive?
I have books on order to send out to supporters. Before Christmas, I hope.
Looking forward to it, Rand! Congratulations on getting it done.
Just got mine delivered a couple of hours ago.
Hoorah!
You could be the first reader review.
Will do at some point for you. But, I won’t get to reading it until the holiday week. Sorry.
Just don’t take the reviews of How to Avoid Huge Ships as a template. ^_^
Funny stuff. But, odd that people would take so much time to write something silly. I’m sure it could be an important book for small ocean-going vessels which have to contend with those monsters coming at them.
I suppose there is maybe a hazard of getting sucked in by by the pressure gradient, and you have to know what to do to slip past it. Probably something like our orbital mechanics where you would actually thrust perpendicular to the line of force to whip around it, instead of trying to fight it directly. It may also become important one day to avoid the spacetime compression wave of an Alcubierre drive 🙂
That’s awesome, George. I never knew they had anything like that.
Also contributed to Kickstarter; looking forward to the book.