Jim Aikin

Autor(a) de The Wall at the Edge of the World

15+ Works 227 Membros 2 Reviews

About the Author

Jim Aikin has been writing about music technology for more than 30 years. He is the author of hundreds of product reviews and tutorial features in keyboard, Electronic Musician, and other magazines, as well as books on Csound, music theory, and cello technique. He also teaches classical cello mostrar mais privately and plays in community orchestras. In his PC-based home studio, he composes and records using software instruments from more than a dozen manufactures. Selected musical results can be heard at midiguru.bandcamp.com and synthage.wordpress.com mostrar menos

Obras de Jim Aikin

Popular Recente

The Wall at the Edge of the World (1993) 110 cópias

Walk the Moon's Road (1985) 57 cópias

Power Tools for Synthesizer Programming: The Ultimate Reference for Sound Design (Power Tools Series) (2004) 23 cópias

A Player's Guide to Chords and Harmony: Music Theory for Real-World Musicians (Backbeat Music Essentials) (2004) 8 cópias

Csound Power! (2012) 6 cópias

Picture Yourself Playing Cello: Step-by-Step Instruction for Playing the Cello (2011) 5 cópias

Software Synthesizers (2003) 4 cópias

Dancing Among Ghosts [short fiction] 4 cópias

Fruityloops: The Ultimate Electronic Virtual Music Studio with CDROM (Quick Start (Music Sales)) (2003) 2 cópias

Run! Run! 2 cópias

An Elvish Sword Of Great Antiquity 2 cópias

A Place To Stay For A Little While 1 exemplar(es)

My Life in the Jungle 1 exemplar(es)

Leaving The Station 1 exemplar(es)

The Inform 7 handbook 1 exemplar(es)

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Associated Works

The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror: Second Annual Collection (1987) — Contribuinte — 199 cópias

The Year's Best Fantasy Stories: 13 (1986) — Contribuinte — 120 cópias

The Sixth Omni Book of Science Fiction (1989) — Contribuinte — 49 cópias

The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction February 1985, Vol. 68, No. 2 (1985) — Contribuinte — 12 cópias

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Conhecimento Comum

Nome padrão: Aikin, Jim
Nome de batismo: Aikin, James Douglas
Data de nascimento: 1948
Sexo: male
Nacionalidade: USA
Locais de residência: Livermore, California, USA
Ocupação: magazine editor
cellist
teacher
technical writer
novelist
Organizações: Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America (SFWA)

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The Wall at the Edge of the World de Jim Aikin

Something of a lost sf classic. I stumbles across this at a used bookstore and found it to be compelling and surprisingly well written. I figured this had to be the work of a well established author, but no, Aiken wrote one other book a decade earlier and never any more, as far as I can tell. This one was published in paperback only and tragically, soon faded into out of print obscurity.
The Wall at the Edge of the World deserves to be in print. I've always thought if I was rich I'd open a publishing house specifically to bring my favorite obscure and forgotten books, albums, TV shows etc. back to light, and this is one of the first books I think of in that scenario.… (mais)

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usuallee | Oct 7, 2021 |