Put this under the category of “things I’ve meant to do for a long time”: I finally published (under my Endless Sky Books imprint) a new edition of The Haunted Horn, a modern-day middle-grade ghost …
The Shards of Excalibur audiobooks, narrated by the wonderful Elizabeth Klett, are now available again after being off the market for a short while. Best of all, while they’re once more on Audible.com and Audible.ca, you …
The official press release from the publisher says it all: Award-winning Canadian author, and host of The Worldshapers podcast, Edward Willett, is joining the Tuscany Bay Books family in 2026 with his The Helix War series. Tuscany Bay Books …
It’s been quite the year for reprints of some of my older novels, thanks to modern technology, and now there’s another: Magebane, the stand-alone steampunk-tinged fantasy I originally wrote for DAW Books, under the pseudonym …
Fairly hard on the heels of the new edition of my second novel, The Dark Unicorn, I’ve now released a new edition of the first of my novels published by DAW Books in New York. …
I’ve been meaning to create a new edition of my second novel, The Dark Unicorn, for a long time, and I finally did it, bringing it out in paperback and ebook (and AI-narrated audiobook) through …
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Comet ‘Armageddon’ less likely than previously thought
Well, this is good news! An astronomer has calculated that there are seven times fewer comets in our solar system than previously thought, and thus the chances of us being wiped out by a collision with a “continent-busting” comet are also less than previously thought; such a thing probably only happens once every 150 million years or so.
I like this quote:
“So I don’t lose sleep over it, but you’re still more likely to be killed by a comet than win the jackpot at Lotto.”
I always appreciate a good dig at lottery-ticket buying.
Permanent link to this article: https://edwardwillett.com/2005/09/comet-armageddon-less-likely-than-previously-thought/
