Saturday, May 19, 2012
Modern Minimalist Covers
AbeBooks: The Bare Essentials - Modern Minimalist Covers: It should come as no surprise that we love beautifully designed books at AbeBooks. The books highlighted on this page all share the same cover characteristics: minimal usage of fonts, images and graphics. Minimalism is popular in the design world and has definitely made its mark on countless book covers. Each one of these books is simple in layout but extremely effective in capturing the eye.
Archaeology Update
If the Christian Science Monitor uses "humongous" in a headline for a serious article, it must be a real word, right? As for me, I'm worried about the tiny Volkswagen-sized turtles.
Humongous Volkswagen-sized turtle fossils discovered
Humongous Volkswagen-sized turtle fossils discovered
Heinlein Update
SF Signal – A Speculative Fiction Blog: Variety is reporting that a film adaptation of Robert A. Heinlein’s short story “All You Zombies” will begin production early next year. Predestination stars Ethan Hawke and is being written and directed by written and will be directed by Michael and Peter Spierig (Daybreakers).
Friday, May 18, 2012
PimPage: An Occasional Feature in Which I Call Interesting Books to Your Attention
I loved the Lone Ranger show on radio when I was a kid, and I still have my Lone Ranger Silver Saddle Ring that I got by sending in box tops and a quarter. So it was a real pleasure to be invited to write a story for this collection. I've read only two others, the ones by Mel Odom and James Reasoner, and they're both absolutely top-notch. The collection is worth buying for those two stories alone. Highly recommended!
Amazon.com: The Lone Ranger Chronicles Limited Hardcover Edition (9781936814220): James Reasoner, Johnny D. Boggs, Ruben Procopio: Books: The First Ever Collection of New Lone Ranger Prose Stories! The masked ex-Texas Ranger and his Native American companion Tonto fight injustice in the Wild West! Stories include meetings with The Cisco Kid, Wyatt Earp, and Doc Holliday, as well as the origin of Tonto and the origin of Silver! Authors include Spur Award-winner Johnny D Boggs, James Reasoner, Alex Award-winner Mel Odom, Anthony Award-winner Bill Crider, Matthew Baugh, Tim Lasiuta, Joe Gentile, Paul Kupperberg, Denny O''Neil, Kent Conwell, David McDonald, Thom Brannon, Troy D. Smith, Chick Dixon, and Richard Dean Starr. This limited edition hardcover includes an exclusive bonus: "75 years of the Lone Ranger"
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