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A science fiction writer attempts to survive on Mars: My old friend David D. Levine has gone to Utah to particitpate in a two-week simulation of a mission in a Martian habitat. (The link is to Day Zero as the crew arrives; go forward in his blog to see what happens next.)

Art Clokey, creator of Gumby and other animated characters, passed away Friday at age 88. From 2007, my thoughts on Davey and Goliath in the 21st century.

Worth reading: An envious [livejournal.com profile] hradzka examines Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's word rate.

Davey and Goliath’'s Snowboard Christmas

Date: 2010-01-12 01:35 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] forestweather.livejournal.com
I'm going to be Ranger Ava when I grow up!

Date: 2010-01-12 05:38 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] purpleranger.livejournal.com
As [personal profile] scarfman has mentioned elsewhere, Happy Birthday, Bill.

Date: 2010-01-12 06:03 pm (UTC)
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From: [identity profile] beamjockey.livejournal.com
Thank you.

Date: 2010-01-13 11:05 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] tceisele.livejournal.com
Speaking of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle:

Sandy found an odd little book in the local bookstore. It's one of a series of modern reprintings of old pulp detective novels, complete with a cover featuring a screaming, scantily-clad woman being menaced by a muscular, tattooed guy. You know, the sort of thing that screams "trashy". And the teaser paragraphs on the first page have a scene that they are obviously trying to play up as being on the torrid side.

The thing is, it's "The Valley of Fear", the last Sherlock Holmes novel. The author is just listed as "A. C. Doyle, author of 'The Lost World'". The blurb on the back seems to be going out of its way to downplay the idea that this book has anything to do with Sherlock Holmes, only mentioning him in passing at the very end.

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