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Can you think of a better recommendation? 941 pages of space opera goodness! I'm heading for the bookstore tomorrow with my forklift!

So many anthologies. So many novels. So little time. So many ex-lovers to get rid of.

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Rick N Tumlinson and Erin R. Medlicott(editors): Return to the Moon.

Made up of: The Moon (Rick Tumlinson); The Next Age of Lunar Exploration (Andrew Chaikin); Marketplace of Competing Ideas Will Determine Alternate Futures (Courtney A. Stadd); The Moon: A New Destination in Space for America (Dr. Paul D. Spudis); Manned and Robotic Explorations of Space (Dr. Yoji Kondo); History and Frontiers: What Works, What Doesn't (Alex Gimarc); Returning to the Moon Will Transform NASA (Howard E. McCurdy); Making a Business Case for a Return to the Moon (Dr. Mike H. Ryan); The Extraterrestrial Enterprise (Philip K. Chapman, Sc.D.); Brave New World? (Robert Zimmerman); LunaMars: The Challenge (Robert D. Richards); Transporting a Legal System from the Earth to the Moon (Rosanna Sattler); The Space Settlement Initiative (Alan Wasser); Lunar Prospector: Lessons Learned (Alan Binder, Ph.D.); A Real Return to the Moon (David Gump); The New Space Revolution and Return to the Moon (Charles Lurio, Ph.D.); Access to Luna (John K. Strickland, Jr.); Lunar High-Risk Manufacture (Simon P. Worden); The Future of Lunar Tourism (Patrick Collins); Asteroidal Resources and the Cis-Lunar Industrial Economy (Dennis Wingo); Astronomy from the Moon (Yoji Kondo); The Overview Effect from the Moon (Frank White); The Conscious Evolutionary Choice (Steven Wolfe); The Social and Spirtual Significance of Lunar Settlement (Edward Hudgins, Ph.D.); Moon Age Daydreams (Allen M. Steele); The Lunar Declaration; Moon Facts; Moon Statistics.

Counts as four entries in the 2006 short story project.

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Chet Raymo: The Soul of the Night: An Astronomical Pilgrimage.

Made up of: Preface; The Silence; In a Dark Time; Faint Lights; Night Creatures; Beginnings; An Ancient Brilliance; Snakes and Ladders; Stardust; Far Down a Billowing Plain; Hidden Matter; The Monster in the Pool; Night Brought to Numbers; The Blandishments of Color; Follower of the Pleiades; The Shape of Night; A Midwinter Night's Dream; Earth, Kind, Mild; Waiting for the Comet; How Slowly Dark; The Bird and the Fish.

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Douglas R. Hofstadter: Metamagical Themas: Questing for the Essence of Mind and Pattern (An Interlocked Collection of Literary, Scientific, and Artistic Studies. more...

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Leigh Brackett: Martian Quest: The Early Brackett.

Made up of: Queen of the Martian Mysteries (Michael Moorcock); Martian Quest; The Treasure of Ptakuth; The Tapestry Gate; The Stellar Legion; The Demons of Darkside; Water Pirate; Interplanetary Reporter; The Dragon-Queen of Venus; Lord of the Earthquake; No Man's Land in Space; A World is Born; Retreat to the Stars; Child of the Green Light; The Sorcerer of Rhiannon; Child of the Sun; Out of the Sea; Cube from Space; Outpost on Io; The Halfling; The Citadel of Lost Ships; Meet the Author (Leigh Brackett).

A collection of Brackett's early works. So pulpy, for the most part, that you have to brush wood chips off the pages! Two-fisted heroes (usually with some hidden secret or flaw), stellar heroines, evil villains and more!

Seriously, a fun collection. Some of the best include The Halfling (a space carnival), The Sorcerer of Rhiannon (one of the best of her Mars tales in the short form) and Retreat to the Stars (I wonder if Andre Norton read this and was inspired to write They Shall Have Stars!). Substitute Mars for Arizona or New Mexico, Venus for an Amazonian jungle...Brackett clearly was writing to fill the cupboard and not to create great literature. But out of financial need comes some brilliance. I'm looking forward to the next volume in the collection.

Counts as nine (9) entries in the 2006 Short Story Project.

Counts as sixteen (16) 2007 Short Story Project (initial stories re-read in 2007).

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So these folks claimed to have invented a perpetual motion machine. And they invited the scientific world to validate their claims! Heck, they even were going to have a demo! Free energy! Rejoice!

Huh. It seems that the machine did not work in the demo "...due to excessive heat from the lighting in the main display area..."

Riiiiiiggggghhhhhtttttttt....

Folks, I suggest strongly that you keep your hands on your wallets.

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