Only Posting on Friday!

I have spoken with my wife, She-Who-Must-Be-Obeyed, and she commands that, since I have a deadline looming with the editor for my next book, I can only post on Fridays for the next six weeks or so, albeit from time to time I may post a link.

A link like this one! http://www.space.com/159-strangest-alien-planets-447.html- with this must new info about exoplanets flooding into the scientific world, any sciffy writer who has to make up his own world rather than speculating about one of these is wasting a valuable resource. I, for one, would like to read a tale set on GJ 1214b, which is 6 times the size of earth, but not a gas giant; or HAT-P-11b which orbits every four days around his primary, and is larger than Neptune, a fire giant; or the planet in the globular cluster M4 which is only 2 billion years younger than the big bang; or SWEEPS-10 who orbits his star once every ten hours, at a distance of 740,000 miles — which sounds like a setting for an RA Lafferty story.

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