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Old 10-April-2007, 02:28 PM
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Working title: "Death from the Skies"
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Hmmmmm, I'm wondering if the pack of weirdos, although now slightly larger, gets a mention again.
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Working title: "Death from the Skies"
Is it a colorful death?
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next book: un-official title contest...

No one won
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I think I may have come closest. Maybe, it's a little death from the skies--I know some get that
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What kind of astronomy are you doing?
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Not to douse this topic with cold water, but the next book already has a title.

And yes, you can ask. But no, I won't tell.
So this was that book
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Out on Ninth Street Hill, where it's dark
That's the place for the little death, all right.
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It's a mind killer alright I think my title (also in that link) is in the spirit of the book's theme as well
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Is it a colorful death?
I'm sure most of these deaths involve the full electromagnetic spectrum from radio to gamma-rays.
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I'm sure most of these deaths involve the full electromagnetic spectrum from radio to gamma-rays.
Thanks, I feel better. If I can't cheat death, I don't want it cheating me!
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Exit Mundi might be an interesting source.
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Beat the deadline Phil! I'm actually looking forward to this book. If I didn't read your blog I wouldn't know about it until it was out...stupid well-written and informative blog

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I have recently published a book titled "The Virtue of Heresy - Confessions of a Dissident Astronomer". It's about the bad science (mostly) that we are taught to use to try to explain what we see.

Publishing a book, especially in the popular science genre, and even more especially one that calls some of the heroes of cosmology half-blind sissies, is a testing task, one that takes your fortitude and tenacity to the brink of collapse. Some wags suggest it preferable that mine should have collapsed

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Weird, I was thinking the same thing
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Working title: "Death from the Skies"
Cool, I had no idea he wrote a book I'll have to buy the other and this one when it comes out.
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I just sent the draft of my manuscript for Death from the Skies! to my editor.

PHEW!

This is a major step, of course. For one thing, it fulfills my contractual obligation of getting the book to the publishing house by November 12.
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Hang in there. Congratulations for reaching this stage.
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Preordering for the new book ist possible at Amazon.
I just bought the new book! :-)
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BA Blog: Why I love my BABloggees

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So I tease the book last night, and today I decide to check the Amazon rank… and look what I find! [image from Amazon.com]
Wow! I have no clue how many books that translates to as far as preorders go, but a rank of 2300 is pretty nice before the book is even out yet. Thanks everyone!
In the mean time, the book's stats have zoomed upward. Amazon product details:

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#1 in Books > Professional & Technical > Professional Science > Astronomy > Astrophysics & Space Science
#1 in Books > Science > Astronomy > Astrophysics & Space Science
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I got a notification that this thread had been bumped, and I thought I'd do another photoshop of a cover for the book.

Gives me something to do.

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Popular in these categories: (What's this?)

#1 in Books > Science > Astronomy > Astrophysics & Space Science
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I got the book a couple days ago, and it appears we've been downgraded from "denizens" to "minions".
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