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With my daughter as co-author, I have spun off a micro-budget one-act play from my short science-fiction screenplay DEATH ORBIT. The Kindle version is now available and briefly on sale for $0.99 USD. DEATH ORBIT: A Play in One Act is set in the future, in the seedy courtroom of an ice-mining colony. A young law … Continue reading Book Brief: Short screenplay DEATH ORBIT now on Kindle as a one-act play
Surviving Orbit the DIY Way Sandy Antunes (O’Reilly, paperback – Kindle) Okay, it’s not exactly Star Trek. For less than the price of a reasonably good used car, you now can build your own picosatellite from a kit, get it launched into low Earth orbit by commercial rocket, and receive data from space. Surviving Orbit … Continue reading Surviving Orbit the DIY Way – You, too, can launch a satellite – #diy #science #bookreview
The Manga Guide to the Universe By Kenji Ishikawa, Kiyoshi Kawabata, and Verte Corp. (No Starch Press, paperback, list price $19.95) There was a time long ago, in a decade far, far away, when I really wanted to be an astronomer. It was a time, pre-Sputnik, when some astronomers still thought there might be beings … Continue reading To the edge of the cosmos & beyond: The Manga Guide to the Universe – #bookreview
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