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Dear Readers  ReadFreely is calling for nominations for the 50 books of 2016 worth reading. http://www.readfree.ly/50-self-published-books-worth-reading-2016-nominations/ The rules: The book must be self-published or published by a small, “indie-minded” house. The book must have been published on or after 1 June 2015. The book must be available for purchase from a large…

On Kepler’s 1284 New Planets Posted: 11 May 2016 05:37 AM PDT If you look into the software that made possible yesterday’s exoplanet results, you’ll find that VESPA (Validation of Exoplanet Signals using a Probabilistic Algorithm) is freely available online. The work of Princeton’s Timothy Morton, who spoke at the announcement news conference, VESPA is […]

KIC 8462852: Where Are We After Eight Months? Posted: 10 May 2016 05:18 AM PDT The unusual star designated KIC 8462852, and now widely known as ‘Tabby’s Star,’ continues to be an enigma. As discussed in numerous articles in these pages, KIC 8462852 shows anomalous lightcurves that remain a mystery. Recently Michael Hippke explored a […]

V.L. Jennings designed this thunderclap to spread the word about a rafflecopter I’m running to help promote my books and hopefully get people excited about joining in on the fun of reading “Join the fun! Buy a book, take a selfie, and join the Raffle to win some awesome prizes before the summer’s up! THANK YOU!!! […]

  Posted: 09 May 2016 08:32 AM PDT If you’ve been following the Breakthrough Starshot concept in these pages and elsewhere, you’ll know that it’s small at one end and big on the other. A beamed sail mission, it would use sails four meters to the side — quite small by reference to earlier beamed […]

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  ‪#‎aromasauthors‬ ‪#‎christineamsden‬ @ChristineAmsden A spin-off to the award-winning Cassie Scot series! Monday, May 16 at 5:30 PM/CDT – 7:30 PM/CDT There will be so many prizes!!!! $10 Amazon Gift Card every half hour!!!! Cassie Scot Audiobooks Signed copies of Touch of Fate and The Immortality Virus (US only) 1 complete set of Cassie Scot […]