The Dragonlover's Guide to Pern by Jody Lynn Nye

The Dragonlover's Guide to Pern by Jody Lynn Nye

Growing specialization and diversification have brought a host of monographs and textbooks on increasingly specialized topics. Bowever, the tree of knowledge of mathematics and related fields does not grow only by putting forth new branches. It also happens, quite often in fact, that branches which were thought to be completely disparate are suddenly seen to be related. Further, the kind and level of sophistication of mathematics applied in various sciences has changed drastically in recent years: measure theory is used (non-trivially) in regional and theoretical economics; algebraic geometry interacts with physics; the Minkowsky lemma, coding theory and the structure of water meet one another in packing and covering theory; quantum fields, crystal defects and mathematical programmi ng profit from homotopy theory; Lie algebras are relevant to filtering; and prediction and electrical engineering can use Stein spaces. And in addition to this there are such new emerging subdisciplines as completely integrable systems, chaos, synergetics and large-s.cale order, which are almost impossible to fit into the existing classifica- tion schemes. They draw upon widely different sections of mathe- matics.

Jody Lynn Nye lists her main career activity as 'spoiling cats.' When not engaged upon this worthy occupation, she writes fantasy and science fiction books and short stories. She has published over 45 books and more than 120 short stories. Among the novels Jody has written are her epic fantasy series, The Dreamland, beginning with Waking In Dreamland, five contemporary humorous fantasies, Mythology 101, Mythology Abroad, Higher Mythology (the three collected as Applied Mythology), Advanced Mythology, The Magic Touch, and the Taylor's Ark series, medical science. Strong Arm Tactics, a humorous military science fiction novel, the first of The Wolfe Pack series. Jody also wrote The Dragonlover's Guide to Pern, a non-fiction-style guide to the world of internationally best-selling author Anne McCaffrey's popular world. She also collaborated with Anne McCaffrey on four science fiction novels, The Death of Sleep, Crisis On Doona, Treaty At Doona and The Ship Who Won, and wrote a solo sequel to The Ship Who Won: The Ship Errant. Jody co-authored the Visual Guide to Xanth with best-selling fantasy author Piers Anthony, and edited an anthology of humorous stories about mothers in science fiction, fantasy, myth and legend, entitled Don't Forget Your Spacesuit, Dear! She wrote eight books with the late Robert Lynn Asprin, License Invoked, a contemporary fantasy set in New Orleans, and seven set in Asprin's Myth Adventures universe. Since Asprin's passing, she has published Myth-Quoted and Dragons Deal (Ace Books), third in Asprin's Dragons series. Her newest series is the Lord Thomas Kinago books, beginning with View From the Imperium and Fortunes of the Imperium (Baen Books). Her newest books are Rhythm of the Imperium, an e-collection of cat stories, Cats Triumphant (Event Horizon), Dragons Run (fourth in the Dragons series) and Launch Pad, an anthology of science fiction stories co-edited with Mike Brotherton. Upcoming are the next Myth-Adventures novel, Myth-Fits, her novella in the second in the Clan of the Claw series, Tooth and Claw, and Wishing on a Star, a Stellar Guild collaboration (Arc Manor Press). Jody lives in the northwest suburbs of Chicago, with her husband Bill Fawcett, a writer, game designer, military historian and book packager, and a black cat, Jeremy. Jody and Bill are the fiction reviewers for Galaxy's Edge Magazine. Jody is on the net at www.jodynye.com and mythadventures.net, on Facebook as Jody Lynn Nye, and Twitter @JodyLynnNye.

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ISBN 13	9780345354242
ISBN 10	0345354249
Title	The Dragonlover's Guide to Pern
Author	Jody Lynn Nye
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Hardback
Publisher	Random House USA Inc
Year published	1989-11-05
Number of pages	178
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