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- Homesteading Mention
OK, a little random, but very cool in my mind: Homesteading was mentioned in an article on the relatively new Gawker Media Network science fiction blog, io9. But, and this - Homesteading Update
Another picture from my friend Jordan Walker of Homesteading Space on a shelf ... this time at a bookstore at Yale. Heh. - A Cold Read
This week's new Hatbag strip is now online.Go check it out! - Skylab's Just Fine
Per the Dessert Dispatch: This Saturday marks 30 years since the United States’ first space station, Skylab, fell out of orbit in 1979 and reentered the atmosphere. When i - Recovery To Be Slow, Say Experts
This week's new Hatbag strip is now online. Go check it out! - H2G2 6
Per TimesOnline:The author of the Artemis Fowl novels is to write the first posthumous installment to the Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy series. ... Mostly Harmless, the - In The Shadow Of The Moon
OK, shamefully, I've just just now finished In the Shadow of the Moon: A Challenging Journey to Tranquility, the second book in the Outward Odyssey space history series. A - Space Scion's Soyuz Soars Sunday!
OK, this is a first for me -- my take on this post is basically, "A spaceflight participant will be flying this weekend! And, oh yeah, a space station crew is riding with - To Boldly Read
Take three basically random facts:In his blurb for the cover of Homesteading Space, noted space journalist Jim Oberg described the book as "a worthy addition to any space - Cut It Out
I'm mentioning that there's a spacewalk today outside the International Space Station in part because I feel guilty that I didn't mention last week's. According to Spacefl - Homesteading Update
Yeah, that's my book, for sale, on a shelf, at a bookstore ... ... at the Smithsonian. Cool, no? Just unbelievable to me. I've been so blessed this year, it's unreal. - Homesteading Update
For the record, Homesteading Space: The Skylab Story is now another step closer to publication. A few weeks ago, we received the page proofs; the book laid out as it will - Waste Not
Being somewhat of a pro-am chronicler of NASA's history makes it all the more interesting watching the current developments as the agency moves forward with the new Conste - Giant Leaping, Slowly
After the talk this morning by members of the Expedition 15 and 16 crews of the International Space Station, a Marshall Space Flight Center official commented on one of th - Kindle mini
According to an "inside source," Amazon is planning a new version of Kindle for October that will be smaller (albeit with the same screen size), cheaper and "three or four - NASA Images
NASA has had several image archives online, but now the agency has teamed up with Internet Archive (which operates the very cool Wayback Machine) to offer NASAImages.org, - Fanfare
So in one fell swoop, my friend Joe Gurner managed to simultaneously make my forthcoming book Homesteading Space both more and less awesome. Joe composed a fanfare score f - "Homesteading" In Space
Robert Pearlman of collectSPACE shared this picture with me. The guy in white is Richard Garriott, who is the son of one of my co-authors, astronaut Owen Garriott. The s - Flown
Energia, via collectSPACE First, go read this article at collectSPACE about Richard and Owen Garriott; it's very possibly the best I've seen. It has one flaw that Rob shou - OK, Now...
For quite a while now, friends have been wanting to talk about how I'm a "published author," and I've asked that they not use word "published," since the book wasn't actua - Don't Read Too Much Into This
It's Thursday, so this week's new Hatbag strip is now online. Go check it out. For those ATW readers who don't follow the weekly Hatbag link, a brief explanation -- Hatbag - Tips For Authors
"Writing a book is the most important thing a human being can do." - Homesteading Update
I've been blogged! Very cool! - Stormtrooper Book Review
Stormtrooper Reviews a Book from Brent Bernasconi on Vimeo. I can only imagine what he would have to say if he continues the series to Homesteading. - Homesteading Review
There's a review of Homesteading Space online now at the Space Coalition Book Review site. I believe the current edition of Smithsonian Air & Space magazine also has a rev - Homesteading Review
Noted space historian Roger Launius has posted a review of Homesteading Space on Amazon, and given us five stars. Very cool! - Homesteading Update
OK, today, for the first time, I came across a review of Homesteading Space that I knew nothing about before it was published, from the Rocky Mount Telegram. It's very fla - Homesteading Update
Another review of Homesteading, from the worlds in a grain of sand blog. In part:The University of Nebraska Press has undertaken a huge series that I have been paying clos - A Birthday Gift Suggestion For Me
(Link) I wouldn't even mind terribly if you wanted to keep the book for yourself.
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