I am an older person who does not do as well as I would like with electronic mail and comments so I hope you will excuse me if I have put these comments in the wrong section. My comment is pure praise for Semiosis. Your excellent work took me away to your world. Even as I was reading and getting great pleasure, another part of me was thinking, 'This is great. It is like Ringworld and Butler's Xenogenesis Trilogy!' Hmmm, perhaps I should not make those comparisons as you may not see them as the praise I intend. Let me go back to your work alone and repeat the great pleasure I found in reading Semiosis. Great Work!

Dan R Cates
dancates179@yahoo.com

Hello Dan,

This is a fine place to comment. Thank you for your kind words. Being compared to Ringworld or the Xenogenesis Trilogy takes my breath away. I'm glad to hear you enjoyed the book. I had a wonderful time writing it and exploring the world of Pax, too.

A sequel should be coming out next year exploring the world further. It will be called "Interference" -- but it would be a spoiler to explain why.

Thank you again,

Sue

Heya, Sue, have you already seen this story, Fandom For Robots by Vina Jie-Min Prasad? If not, enjoy! ;~D

I read it and voted for it for the Nebula and Hugo last year.

Have you read her story "A Series of Steaks"?
http://clarkesworldmagazine.com/prasad_01_17/
That story, and my story in Clarkesworld, "Who Won the Battle of Arsia Mons?" were among the magazine's Readers' Choice Awards finalists last year.
http://clarkesworldmagazine.com/burke_11_17/
Her story won, and it may have indeed been the better story.

Thanks for the link! I like that story a lot too - I'd be hard-pressed to know which of the two to vote for.

Still slowly working my way through 'Amadis of Gaul', but I'm going to have to back-track a few chapters to pick up the thread again. What a rollicking tale!