<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><!--StartFragment--><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none; text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:Verdana">Dear family and friends:</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none; text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:Verdana">Joe’s new novel STARBOUND appears today from Ace Books. It's the sequel to MARSBOUND, but stands alone, too.The paperback of MARSBOUND is already out. If your book store doesn't have the books, please ask it to order them.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>Thanks!</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none; text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Verdana">Carmen Dula and her husband have spent six years traveling to a distant solar system that is home to the enigmatic, powerful race known as "The Others," in the hopes of finding enough common purpose between their species to forge a delicate truce. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none; text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Verdana">By the time Carmen and her party return, fifty years have been consumed by relativity-and the Earthlings have not been idle, building a massive flotilla of warships to defend Earth against The Others. But The Others have their own plans. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none; text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:Verdana">Please visit Joe's website at <a href="http://home.earthlink.net/~haldeman"><span style="color:#0020F6;text-decoration:none;text-underline:none">home.earthlink.net/~haldeman</span></a>. You can order books from there, too.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>Come visit his blog on LiveJournal or SFF.Net.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none; text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:Verdana">As always, if you want to be removed from this list, just drop me a line.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>Thanks!</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none; text-autospace:none"><span style="font-family:Verdana">All best, Gay<o:p></o:p></span></p> <!--EndFragment-->
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