In these days of computers and CCD cameras, visual comet observers can still contribute scientifically useful data with the help of this handy reference for use in the field. Comets are one of the principal areas for productive pro-amateur collaboration in astronomy, but finding comets requires a different approach than the observing of more predictable targets.
A comprehensive guide to the speculative sub-genre of alternate history fiction, this book maps the unique terrain of this vibrant mode of storytelling and then explains how to write it. First giving a concise conceptual overview and the critical tools to differentiate the different forms of counterfactual fiction, Jack Dann lays out the ‘tricks of the trade’ such ‘Heinleining’, how to create recognizable ‘divergent points’ and how to employ paratextual elements and ‘layering’ to overcome readers’ unfamiliarity with invented counterfactual events and cultures.
The thief Gaston escapes the dungeon of medieval Aquila through the latrine. Soldiers are about to kill him when Navarre saves him. Navarre, traveling with his spirited hawk, plans to kill the bishop of Aquila with help from Gaston.
The hit game show where adults have to answer grade-school level questions to win big is back. And this time, the kids play a bigger role as they help contestants prove that they’re smarter than a 5th grader. Hosted by John Cena.
After being released from a 6-year prison sentence for the possession of marijuana at a college party, Tyler Richards is surprisingly reunited with the friends for whom he took the fall. After a secretly planned dinner party is revealed by his best friend Justin, Tyler finds himself forced to spent his first night out “catching up with the old crew”. The surprise to Tyler, he is shocked at how distant the group has grown and how much each individual has changed; and not for the better. Seeing that they have nearly all veered from the paths that he expected them to take, Tyler listens as the complaints of their everyday lives become louder, and he sees the selfish and ungrateful soul of this generation’s society. However, Tyler comes to hear that being imprisoned in your mind and literally being in prison might not be as far from one another as one would think. Or are we simply conditioned to take our freedom for granted? Are we taking our own willpower and ability to make conscious …
An elite government team gets called into to investigate a paranormal incident only to find that it is a threat none could possibly have imagined.
Michael Dorsey is an unemployed actor with an impossible reputation. In order to find work and fund his friend’s play he dresses as a woman, Dorothy Michaels, and lands the part in a daytime drama. Dorsey loses himself in this woman role and essentially becomes Dorothy Michaels, captivating women all around the city and inspiring them to break free from the control of men and become more like Dorsey’s initial identity. This newfound role, however, lands Dorsey in a hot spot between a female friend/’lover,’ a female co-star he falls in love with, that co-star’s father who falls in love with him, and a male co-star who yearns for his affection.
“Prosecuting Casey Anthony” reveals Ashton’s inside story of the true crime drama that captivated and then shocked the nation when Caylee Anthony’s mother, Casey, was acquitted of killing her daughter, despite what many thought to be overwhelming evidence of guilt.
