Monday, December 05, 2011
Darrell K. Sweet, R. I. P.
Darrell K. Sweet, 1934-2011 | Tor.com: It is with tremendous sadness that I report that Darrell K. Sweet passed away this morning. Since the mid 1970s, Darrell’s illustrations defined many of fantasy’s most beloved series—including Robert Jordan’s The Wheel of Time—among literally thousands of genre book covers. An avid history buff, Darrell also spent much of his time painting frontiersmen and the American West. His paintings evoked the classic storytelling narration of the Golden Age illustrators. A Sweet cover promised an adventure to be had.�
Buy My Book!
Amazon.com: The Nighttime is the Righttime eBook: Bill Crider: Kindle Store: The Nighttime is the Right Time is a collection of short fiction from the author of the popular Sheriff Dan Rhodes series. In these 11 previously published tales, we meet a detective who also happens to be a werewolf; investigate two separate missing-animal cases; tag along with series characters Carl Burns (the amateur-sleuth English teacher) and Dan Rhodes; watch Elvis Presley hunting a vampire; and check out a handful of other interesting puzzles. Crider is a very smooth writer: his prose is always lively, and his characters are always fun to hang around with. (His fans will notice that a couple of the stories here are much harder-edged than usual; he can be quite dark, when he wants to be.) A must read for fans of mystery, and darker fantasy tales. There will even be a few stories for fans of a certain Jack MacLane, whose work Bill Crider is intimately familiar with...
James Gunn's Ad Astra! |
AboutSF: The Center for the Study of Science Fiction (CSSF), in association with the University of Kansas, announces the launch of James Gunn’s Ad Astra, an online resource for authors, scholars and all those who are interested in speculative fiction at http://adastra.ku.edu/.
Link via SF Signal.
NASA Update
NASA: NASA's Kepler mission has confirmed its first planet in the "habitable zone," the region where liquid water could exist on a planet’s surface. Kepler also has discovered more than 1,000 new planet candidates, nearly doubling its previously known count. Ten of these candidates are near-Earth-size and orbit in the habitable zone of their host star. Candidates require follow-up observations to verify they are actual planets.
12 Days of Bookmas -- Day 3 #bookmas
Play to win free books! Go here for an explanation of the contest and for a list of the many blogs where clues can be found.
Today's Question: What piece did Kim have to memorize in her 10th grade English class and who wrote it? And what author did Kim do her 11th-grade presentation on and what’s the title of that author's most famous work?
My clues: You're dreaming if you think the answers have anything to do with going house to house and singing Christmas songs.
First It Was the Thin Mints Melee . . .
BBC News: A woman was shot with an electric stun gun, bound and gagged and then buried alive in a box after her partner got "bored" with her, a jury has been told.
Once Again, Texas Leads the Way
Officers Arrest Woman on 5-Yr-Old Truancy Warrant: The 22-year-old mother of two was arrested for failure to attend school back in 2006.
And Stay off Her Damn Lawn!
Mail Online: A 69-year-old Palm Springs woman has been arrested after allegedly trying to cut off her husband's penis with a pair of scissors.
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