On A Personal Note

What is personal about this antho, aside from the story or two I have in it, is the cover. My first debut as a cover photographer! The model is my son.

Brenda


BOOK VIEW CAFÉ LAUNCHES ROCKET BOY AND THE GEEK GIRLS

Book View Café, the Internet's only professional author cooperative, announces the creation of Book View Press. Book View Press will expand the Café authors' mission of bringing the best online fiction to the readers by bringing new work ready-to-read on the most popular ebook devices, including the Amazon Kindle, the Sony eReader and a variety of cell phones.

This group of award-winning and best-selling authors is launching their new press with its first science fiction anthology: ROCKET BOY AND THE GEEK GIRLS, a collection of rare reprints, hard-to-find favorites and bold new tales by some of SF's finest authors including Vonda N. McIntyre, Katherine Kerr, Judith Tarr, P.R. Frost, Pati Nagle, Amy Sterling Casil, and Maya Kaathryn Bohnhoff.

Rocket Boy and the Geek Girls is available at http://bit.ly/rgr4K for the Kindle version and http://www.bookviewcafe.com/index.php/BVC-eBookstore/ for other formats including pdf, mobi, prc, lit, lrf, epub.

To celebrate the launch of Rocket Boy, BVC is holding a TwitterFic contest. For details visit the contest page: http://www.bookviewcafe.com/index.php/News/BVC-Twitter-Fic-Contest-8-Celebrating-Book-View

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"Fasten your seatbelts and brace your tentacles. These all-star tales of epic wonder from the genre's masters will sizzle through your mind like a spaceship on re-entry burn." --Dave Willilams, author of The Burning Sky
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Relevant Pages

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  • Re: Noise during Titan II Start Up Prior to Ignition
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    (sci.space.history)
  • Re: White material on Soyuz boosters
    ... For recent launches (for example, ... The liquid oxygen in the tanks of the rocket make the exterior very ... When the pad workers breath on the outside of the rocket the ... Stolichnaya fumes on their breath freeze onto the rocket tanks. ...
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