See? I told you it was going to take a few weeks to get through this one …
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Teaser Tuesday 9/13/2016: (Still) “Seveneves”
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Teaser Tuesday 9/6/2016: “Seveneves”
So this week, and given its size, probably for a few more weeks, I’ve been reading Seveneves, an apocalyptic doorstopper of a novel by Neal Stephenson. Of course, “doorstopper of a novel” and “Neal Stephenson” do tend to go together; this particular one, if I shook it out of my eReader onto a stack of paper, would add up to about 900 pages, or about the same length of the original Shards before I split it into two parts, which I did because nobody is going to cough up $17.99 $11.99 (the current price of Seveneves) for an eBook by me …
The Early Years: Haunted House
This week, we have a lovely piece of artwork from the archives:
The Early Years: Jack-O’-Lantern
A while back my parents sent me a big package full of old school papers and such, whence I got the, um, amazing space battle drawing that I posted a few weeks ago. Reaching into this package today, I discovered this small exercise in giant block-letter printing, in which the moon has what may be an overly familiar relationship with a pumpkin:
Viscosity 