New BA book announcement in the BA blog on Apr. 8, 2007
Working title: "Death from the Skies"
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New BA book announcement in the BA blog on Apr. 8, 2007
Working title: "Death from the Skies"
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Hmmmmm, I'm wondering if the pack of weirdos, although now slightly larger, gets a mention again.Originally Posted by hhEb09'1
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Horray!
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Is it a colorful death?
We know time flies, we just can't see its wings.
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I think I may have come closest. Maybe, it's a little death from the skies--I know some get that
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What kind of astronomy are you doing?I think I may have come closest. Maybe, it's a little death from the skies--I know some get that
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Gillian
"Now everyone was giving her that kind of look UFOlogists get when they suddenly say, 'Hey, if you shade your eyes you can see it is just a flock of geese after all.'"
"You can't erase icing."
"I can't believe it doesn't work! I found it on the internet, man!"
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Out on Ninth Street Hill, where it's dark
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So this was that book
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That's the place for the little death, all right.Out on Ninth Street Hill, where it's dark
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Gillian
"Now everyone was giving her that kind of look UFOlogists get when they suddenly say, 'Hey, if you shade your eyes you can see it is just a flock of geese after all.'"
"You can't erase icing."
"I can't believe it doesn't work! I found it on the internet, man!"
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It's a mind killer alright
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I'm sure most of these deaths involve the full electromagnetic spectrum from radio to gamma-rays.Is it a colorful death?
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Thanks, I feel better. If I can't cheat death, I don't want it cheating me!I'm sure most of these deaths involve the full electromagnetic spectrum from radio to gamma-rays.
We know time flies, we just can't see its wings.
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Cosmic string whip mentioned?
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Collapse to the quantum vacume ground state?
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mickal555, you win! That's the last chapter. :-)
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Horray for me
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Exit Mundi might be an interesting source.
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Beat the deadline Phil! I'm actually looking forward to this book. If I didn't read your blog I wouldn't know about it until it was out...stupid well-written and informative blog
<Just my way of thanking you for your work>
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Oh no! Not another one...
I have recently published a book titled "The Virtue of Heresy - Confessions of a Dissident Astronomer". It's about the bad science (mostly) that we are taught to use to try to explain what we see.
Publishing a book, especially in the popular science genre, and even more especially one that calls some of the heroes of cosmology half-blind sissies, is a testing task, one that takes your fortitude and tenacity to the brink of collapse. Some wags suggest it preferable that mine should have collapsed
With kind regards
Hilton Ratcliffe
Astronomical Society of Southern Africa
Alternative Cosmology Group
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Weird, I was thinking the same thing
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Weird, I was thinking the same thing
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Cool, I had no idea he wrote a book I'll have to buy the other and this one when it comes out.
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BA Blog: Major book milestone
Ah...I just sent the draft of my manuscript for Death from the Skies! to my editor.
PHEW!
This is a major step, of course. For one thing, it fulfills my contractual obligation of getting the book to the publishing house by November 12.
Not so fast, author boy.
Hang in there. Congratulations for reaching this stage.But it’s nowhere near the end! Once my editor looks it over and edits it, I’ll have to revise it.
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Preordering for the new book ist possible at Amazon.
I just bought the new book! :-)
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In the mean time, the book's stats have zoomed upward. Amazon product details:So I tease the book last night, and today I decide to check the Amazon rank… and look what I find! [image from Amazon.com]
Wow! I have no clue how many books that translates to as far as preorders go, but a rank of 2300 is pretty nice before the book is even out yet. Thanks everyone!
Amazon.com Sales Rank: #725 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)
#1 in Books > Professional & Technical > Professional Science > Astronomy > Astrophysics & Space Science
#1 in Books > Science > Astronomy > Astrophysics & Space Science
#3 in Books > Science > Physics
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I got a notification that this thread had been bumped, and I thought I'd do another photoshop of a cover for the book.
Gives me something to do.
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Zoom.
Edit, about 9 hours later: Uh-oh. It's back-sliding.Amazon.com Sales Rank: #468 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)
Popular in these categories: (What's this?)
#1 in Books > Science > Astronomy > Astrophysics & Space Science
#1 in Books > Professional & Technical > Professional Science > Astronomy > Astrophysics & Space Science
#2 in Books > Science > Physics
Amazon.com Sales Rank: #1,022 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)
Popular in these categories: (What's this?)
#2 in Books > Professional & Technical > Professional Science > Astronomy > Astrophysics & Space Science
#2 in Books > Science > Astronomy > Astrophysics & Space Science
#6 in Books > Science > Physics
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I got the book a couple days ago, and it appears we've been downgraded from "denizens" to "minions".Hmmmmm, I'm wondering if the pack of weirdos, although now slightly larger, gets a mention again.
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