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Books from Critters!
Check out Books by Critters for books by your fellow Critterfolk, as well as my list of recommended books for writers.
How to Write SF
The Craft of Writing Science Fiction that Sells by Ben Bova, best-selling author and six-time Hugo Award winner for Best Editor. (This is one of the books your ol' Critter Captain learned from himself, and I highly recommend it.)
(Also via Amazon)
A Guide to Barsoom
The ultimate, definitive
GUIDE TO BARSOOM from ReAnimus Press.
NOW IN PRINT EDITION TOO. The best guide to Edgar Rice Burroughs' Mars series.
Interviewed!
I was interviewed live on public radio for Critters' birthday, for those who want to listen.
Free Web Sites
Free web sites for authors (and others) are available at www.nyx.net.
ReAnimus Acquires Advent!
ReAnimus Press is pleased to announce the acquisition of the legendary Advent Publishers! Advent is now a subsidiary of ReAnimus Press, and we will continue to publish Advent's titles under the Advent name. Advent was founded in 1956 by Earl Kemp and others, and has published the likes of James Blish, Hal Clement, Robert Heinlein, Damon Knight, E.E. "Doc" Smith, and many others. Advent's high quality titles have won and been finalists for several Hugo Awards, such as The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction and Fantasy and Heinlein's Children. Watch this space for ebook and print editions of all of Advent's current titles!
Book Recommendation
THE SIGIL TRILOGY:
The universe is dying from within...
"Great stuff... Really enjoyed it." — SFWA Grandmaster Michael Moorcock
Announcing ReAnimus Press
If you're looking for great stuff to read from bestselling and award-winning authors—look no further! ReAnimus Press was founded by your very own Critter Captain. (And with a 12% Affiliate program.) [More]
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Ack!
(As Bill the Cat used to say)
My apologies for the outage the last week! Murphy's Law has a way of whacking you. Despite my building in a gazillion redundancies and failsafes that have kept the servers up almost continually for 15 years, this is by far the worst failure we've ever had. This outage was a confluence of not one but four problems — a network outage, a hard drive failing and the RAID array not taking the load like it was supposed to, and a UPS failing and taking out some of the routers with it (so much for "Uninteruptible"!) — exacerbated by my being out of town visiting friends for the holidays, and thus hampered in directing the repairs. When it rains it— well, this is Colorado, and it does what it's doing outside right now as I write this — it blizzards. :)
Of course I also didn't have my Facebook or Twitter passwords with me so I couldn't even post updates.
Thanks to everyone for your concerns. I'm fine, just really walloped by Murphy. I think we're back on track now. I can also see several new failsafes to add, like bringing my Facebook password with me instead of relying on the browser's password manager. :)
If you had sent email, chances are your mail server bounced back to you, so just resend as if it were new.
For the P&E Poll, I'd told Dave that if there were any problems I'd be glad to extend the poll, so if it's ok with him I'll just extend the poll by a week.
Whew! Happy 2011 everyone! :)
