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The Tunguska centennial
Canada Day and U.S. Independence Day fireworks this week in honour of the countries’ 111th 141st* and 232nd birthdays, respectively, can’t hold a Roman candle to the natural fireworks that erupted in western Siberia exactly 100 years ago. On June 30, 1908, at around 7:17 a.m. local time, natives and settlers near the Podkammennaya Tunguska …
The Tunguska centennial
Canada Day and U.S. Independence Day fireworks this week in honour of the countries’ 111th 141st* and 232nd birthdays, respectively, can’t hold a Roman candle to the natural fireworks that erupted in western Siberia exactly 100 years ago. On June 30, 1908, at around 7:17 a.m. local time, natives and settlers near the Podkammennaya Tunguska …
Ain’t it the truth!
Seen at A Place for Strangers and Beggars, the blog of author James Van Pelt:
Ain’t it the truth!
Seen at A Place for Strangers and Beggars, the blog of author James Van Pelt:
My preliminary WorldCon schedule
Right now, I’m scheduled to be on four panels at Denvention 3, this year’s World Science Fiction Convention, August 6 to 10 in Denver. You can look for me on: Reading Tolkien in the early years, Wednesday, 11:30 a.m. Writers reading from their juvenalia, Thursday, 10 a.m. Canadian Science Fiction, Friday, 10 a.m. Working with …
My preliminary WorldCon schedule
Right now, I’m scheduled to be on four panels at Denvention 3, this year’s World Science Fiction Convention, August 6 to 10 in Denver. You can look for me on: Reading Tolkien in the early years, Wednesday, 11:30 a.m. Writers reading from their juvenalia, Thursday, 10 a.m. Canadian Science Fiction, Friday, 10 a.m. Working with …
Go to World Fantasy Con, get a free copy of Marseguro!
No, I won’t be handing them out in the hallways at World Fantasy Convention in Calgary in October; my publisher, DAW, has taken care of that for me. I just received confirmation today that the convention organizers have received 300 copies of Marseguro for including in the World Fantasy Con book bags. That’s not enough …
The remarkable life of Sir Joseph Banks
In the course of writing a non-fiction children’s book on the mutiny on the Bounty, I recently made the acquaintance of someone I’m sure I should have already known about: Sir Joseph Banks. Banks, who died 188 years ago last Thursday, was a remarkable scientist (though the word wasn’t in use at that time) whose …
Go to World Fantasy Con, get a free copy of Marseguro!
No, I won’t be handing them out in the hallways at World Fantasy Convention in Calgary in October; my publisher, DAW, has taken care of that for me. I just received confirmation today that the convention organizers have received 300 copies of Marseguro for including in the World Fantasy Con book bags. That’s not enough …
The remarkable life of Sir Joseph Banks
In the course of writing a non-fiction children’s book on the mutiny on the Bounty, I recently made the acquaintance of someone I’m sure I should have already known about: Sir Joseph Banks. Banks, who died 188 years ago last Thursday, was a remarkable scientist (though the word wasn’t in use at that time) whose …
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