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Even More Books – Amanda S. Green

Even More  Books – Amanda S. Green

Here are some more books and short stories for your reading pleasure.

[image error] Polly

by James Snover

When a slight problem of some missing mountain range threatens to have Rex Mason thrown in jail, what does he do? He creates the Excentrifugal Engineering Youth Internship Program! The first partcipant: 13-year-old Polly Madison! But it won’t be easy, and confined to a wheel chair, it may be too much for her. Join her as her intelligence, creativity, perseverance and...

“The Future Does Not Come Gift-Wrapped” By Jeff Greason

“The Future Does Not Come Gift-Wrapped”

By Jeff Greason

I use social media mostly to connect with a small group of friends, but I have noticed a rise, even among that group, of a certain form of magical thinking that I believe is misinforming our cultural view of the future and how we link our actions today to that future.   That growing disquiet was triggered when I saw, in a discussion about recent policy debates, the phrase “We NEED renewable power, we NEED space colonization”.

“All right”...

I’m SOOOOOO Sorry

As most of you know I’m at Liberty con.  I only have three panels and a reading and stuff, so I thought I’d have plenty of time, but we’ve been…  Well, coming out of the Baen road show took me an hour.  Because people want to talk to me, and honestly, I love my fans.

Neat presies so far: bottle single malt, bottle port, handmade knife and SP IV t-shirt someone has been saving for me!

Anyway, sorry I didn’t put up a guest post.  I started to, then got called away by someone knocking at our roo...

Everyone Needs Something Good To Read Amanda S. Green

Everyone Needs Something Good To Read- Amanda S. Green

Here are a few of the books I’ve either just finished reading or that are on my to be read pile.  Or mine, that are on sale.  Enjoy!

[image error]The Long Black (The Black Chronicles, Book 1)

by J. M. Anjewierden

Morgan always assumed that if she could survive growing up in the mines of Planet Hillman – feared for its brutal conditions and gravity twice that of Earth – she could survive anything.
That was before she became a starship mechanic. Now sh...

Person or Principle? by Julie Pascal

Person or Principle?

by Julie Pascal

 

Fifteen or twenty years ago I was reading a science fiction novel and during the course of a conversation one character asked the other which they put first, if they put people first or principles first.  If I recall correctly the main character said that she put people before principles.

I remember this so clearly after all this time because I didn’t understand the question.  What was meant by “people?”  What was meant by “principles?”  It seemed obviou...

The Day Before Liberty Con

As most of you know, my one, no-fail con a year is Liberty Con, in Tennessee.  Over the years it’s become not just a family reunion (my kids consider it so themselves) but also a place where my fans know they can find me.

It’s sold out, as it usually does.

Thing is, this year with the trip to Dallas so close by, we’re running to get everything done before LC.  I have a mound of clothes to iron (before it gets too hot), I have the beginning of Guardian to rewrite (I’ve not sent it in yet becau...

Making Ladders

Six years ago now I told my husband I was quitting writing.

It wasn’t the first time I told him that, but that time he took me seriously.  He knew it had been building a long time, partly frustration, partly insufficient recompense, partly that proverbial hostile work environment.

It wasn’t a matter of my being tired of writing, or frustrated with my own progress.  I’d had those moments too, coming up.  I once gave up writing for two weeks.  At the end of which Dan and the boys begged me to g...

Vignettes by Luke, Mary Catelli and ‘Nother Mike

*Haven’t got a post from the Oyster.  He’s probably playing with his forks. Seriously, not a reproach, I know what his life gets like, and he does this for free.
As for me, I’m dressing to go to the airport and will be back home in some hours.  I feel dead, but that is more that the antibiotic level I’m taking is ALMOST anti-Sarah, because of the levels and compensating for the prednisone.  I hate antibiotics that make you feel like your internals were liquified and hurt all over. Anyway, bac...

Bright Shiny Buttons

Okay, ladies, gentlemen and small fuzzy animals.  Vignettes are postponed till tomorrow, when there might also if Oyster has time, be a promo post.

This is the time in the blog where (Giovanni Guareschi readers will get this) I turn the picture of Heinlein to the wall, put my hands on my hips and speak in my own way.

Before we start, I want to point out this is my one and only post on this sh*t and that it is done ONLY to be my one and only post on this thing, because a) I have a job.  (Three...

I’m Away, Doing Writing

We’re at an undisclosed location for a writing weekend.  I’m sorry.  I meant to post, but I have a ton of things to catch up, since I am FINALLY over the auto-immune and medicated for the ear infection.

 

I’ll TRY to do Grant today, but no promises.