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http://tomjmartinez.blogspot.com/2014/04/blood-moon-and-great-blue-heron_25.html?m=1
Fellow ASKC member and astrophotography Tom Martinez relates his recent adventures with the Blood Moon and Blue Heron.
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According to io9, Captain Kirk is right when it comes to diplomacy, despite (or because of) his bad press.
Kirk, in particular, comes in for a lot of bad press, as a captain whose life gets horizontal in ways that have nothing to do with gravitational anomalies.
Chortling aside, the article above had some interesting observations. Enjoy!
This us next up in my ebook reading queue, after I finish Red Seas Under Red Skies. In the meantime, enjoy my uncle’s thoughts on The Red Knight by Miles Cameron, which also comes highly recommended by Stefan Raets at his Far Beyond Reality blog.
Another awesome sketch courtesy of ASOD.
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http://www.skyandtelescope.com/observing/this-weeks-sky-atnbspanbspglance-2/
Finally Sky & Telescope has updated their website to be mobile and device friendly.
Lord of Emperors by Guy Gavriel Kay
Read in June 2010
The characters I related to best surprised me in this second half of the Sarantine Mosaic duology. I wept more than once for a chariot racer and for an obsessed, vengeful woman. Crispan, through whose eyes most of this tale was viewed, did not touch any of my heart-strings.
Both this novel, and its predecessor, Sailing to Sarantium, included phenomenal chapters filled with thundering horses hooves, dust and crashing chariots … just a pleasant day at the Hippodrome races. Continue reading “Book Review: Lord of Emperors by Kay (4 Stars)”
Next week watch the full moon turn red and fade to black.
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The Martian Chronicles by Ray Bradbury
Recommended by the GoodReads SciFi/Fantasy Book Club August 2009 Selection
Read in August, 2009
Synopsis (courtesy Wikipedia):
The Martian Chronicles is a 1950 science fiction short story collection by Ray Bradbury that chronicles the colonization of Mars by humans fleeing from a troubled and eventually atomically devastated Earth, and the conflict between aboriginal Martians and the new colonists. The book lies somewhere between a short story collection and an episodic novel, containing stories Bradbury originally published in the late 1940s in science fiction magazines. The stories were loosely woven together with a series of short, interstitial vignettes for publication.
My Thoughts:
This collection of stories about Mars reminded me of Edgar Rice Burroughs stories. But where Burroughs entertained with adventures and action, Bradbury expounded on various themes, mostly anti-war and anti-establishment.
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Great sketch of moon craters on ASOD today.
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A bunch of interesting WWII what ifs.
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