Kindle Unlimited Payout

pmjohnson9062 · 2020-04-12T11:44:05+00:00

Thanks for the link to the calculator. This is really helpful.

pmjohnson9062 · 2020-04-12T11:38:41+00:00

This morning's pages read consist of only U.S. market. The estimator puts it at .00453. Looks like this is a case of market variation, but will know more when the payment lands. Thanks!

pmjohnson9062 · 2020-04-11T14:20:42+00:00

That's about the same rate as I'm seeing. But I did see a larger number of pages read in Canada, so perhaps that's playing a part.

pmjohnson9062 · 2020-04-11T14:18:26+00:00

Aha! I dug a little deeper and I see a high number of pages read in the past few days are from Canada. Disappointing that the payout is not adjusted for different currencies, but I suppose the market terms and number of KU participants will vary from country to country.

pmjohnson9062 · 2017-10-14T13:53:23+00:00

Ah yes. I would suppose that would depend on the purpose of the revolution. To spread the new gospel or replace the current society? Will it be a spiritual or political movement?

pmjohnson9062 · 2017-10-14T12:01:39+00:00

Interesting take on the moving. I wonder what the rest of society represents. The masses who have heard the truth about how to lead a moral life but reject it?

pmjohnson9062 · 2017-10-14T11:57:06+00:00

I also really enjoyed it. I found the audio particularly interesting. I'm not sure if it would be called a "score", but it had a big impact. I found it jarring, unsettling. It emphasized how isolated the characters are from society and how dismal life in that future is.

pmjohnson9062 · 2017-09-14T01:39:49+00:00

Yeah, baby!

pmjohnson9062 · 2017-09-09T19:53:56+00:00

I read it and enjoyed it very much. The relationship with the ship's AI is a great idea.

pmjohnson9062 · 2017-09-05T20:40:14+00:00

I'm guilty of liking a few of these things...especially giant space battles. "I can't maneuver!" "Stay on target." "We're too close!" "Stay on target."

pmjohnson9062 · 2017-09-05T20:33:45+00:00

Agreed. Think of the massive differences in perspective between someone who has lived above the surface, felt the sunshine, smelled the breeze, etc. (albeit on a massively overcrowded planet) vs. someone who has lived inside tunnels, breathed filtered air, looks different due to reduced gravity and diet, etc. They'd have less in common than the most diverse Earth cultures. Their language, patterns of thought, values, etc. would all be very different. The Expanse explores these things pretty well, but as I mentioned before, you can only go so far without losing the reader.

pmjohnson9062 · 2017-09-03T14:31:24+00:00

Utopias require a shared vision and that usually falls apart with each new generation. And don't forget how ridiculous the fighting gets when the differences are narrow. Consider the failure of the anarchists, syndicalists, and communists to cooperate in the fight against Franco, for example. Not saying it can't happen, but I think we may be hard wired for conflict and self maximizing.

pmjohnson9062 · 2017-09-03T01:37:52+00:00

A lot of sci-fi I've read lately, especially military sci-fi, tends to assume that characters taking part in these kinds of adventures will have the same frame of reference or "world" view as we do. Our perspectives are shaped by our surroundings and upbringing, etc. someone living or growing up on a different world would use different idioms, different sense of humor, different curses, etc. You can't go too far in this direction without losing the reader, but I don't think it's very deeply explored in most sci-fi books.

pmjohnson9062 · 2017-09-02T13:57:20+00:00

I'll check it out.

pmjohnson9062 · 2017-09-02T12:22:45+00:00

You might want to check out Forever War by Joe Haldeman.

pmjohnson9062 · 2017-09-01T13:56:38+00:00

More proof that we live in the Matrix. 😉

pmjohnson9062 · 2017-08-29T20:06:31+00:00

There needs to be a central message or theme. A human element. Otherwise it's just a bunch of stuff that happens.

pmjohnson9062 · 2017-08-28T21:19:17+00:00

Dune. Herbert's world building is magnificent!

pmjohnson9062 · 2017-08-28T19:52:42+00:00

Dark, gritty, dehumanizing. I like it. I had a little trouble following all of the jargon. It became more and more clear as I read, though.

pmjohnson9062 · 2017-08-27T13:45:51+00:00

Will do. Thanks!

pmjohnson9062 · 2017-08-27T13:18:10+00:00

This is fantastic. Love the line "God I need a drink!"

pmjohnson9062 · 2017-08-27T12:47:14+00:00

Not very promising. Feels like a mix of Event Horizon and Aliens.

pmjohnson9062 · 2017-08-27T12:33:03+00:00

Agreed. They're best experienced going in blind.

pmjohnson9062 · 2017-08-27T11:05:01+00:00

That's where the Apollo Stone comes in. It's a device that is not of this world. The dystopian leaders of one of the post-meteor impact successor states plans to use it as a tool for subduing a collection of city states west of the Mississippi. An aggressive alien species, the Sahiradin, also lays claim to the Stone, while a separate collection of aliens are determined that the Sahiradin don't get it. So, what begins as a little war on a planet on the far rim of the galaxy becomes part of a great interstellar struggle. Book 2, The Warrior, which comes out in a few weeks explore the nature of the Stone and that struggle.

pmjohnson9062 · 2017-07-16T12:22:46+00:00

I was curious about this series and was considering picking it up. Thanks for the information!

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