…Robert J. Sawyer has provided a blurb for the cover: “This book has it all: great aliens, brilliant world-building, a breakneck plot, and a message that resonates with our times. Edward Willett has arrived, and SF is the richer for it.” — Robert J. Sawyer, Hugo Award-winning author of Hominids Hard to ask for anything …
…Steve Stone. I couldn’t be happier. I love his work. I’m told I’ll see a cover proof (and page proofs) in the next week or two. I can’t wait to see what he’s come up with! The link above goes to his portfolio on his representative’s website, by the way; Steve Stone’s home website is …
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J.K. Rowling has been voted the greatest living British author. Better yet, Terry Pratchett came second. I would have put Pratchett first, but two fantasy authors leading the pack? I’ll take it.
No, not the old singing group.
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In August of 2000, a shower of dead fish fell onto Great Yarmouth after a thunderstorm. Live toads dropped on a Mexican town back in 1997. And quite frequently, dust in the air produces colored rain, like the red-tinted rain that dropped fine grit from the Sahara over southern England in 1968. In 2001, then, …
How have I lived for (almost) 47 years without reading anything about the Antikythera Mechanism? New research seems to confirm that it is the world’s oldest surviving astronomy computer and may rewrite our understanding of just how technically capable the Greeks were.
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