weirdquark

Came across a book published in the 70s with a 70s style cover. Had some figures in yellow lighting on a black background with blue lines going through everything. The book was for the sci-fi collection so I assumed, not looking too closely, that the blue lines were lasers and it was portraying some sort of space battle (two of the figures were sort of crouched battle style) or was a cyber club brawl or something similar.

It was missing the back cover and I read the last page which had two regency romance style proposals in it.

Regency romance IN SPACE people!

Looking more closely at the book, it has something to do with gypsies and the blue lines on the cover probably mean to show the figures having a fight in the rain and are not (sigh) lasers at all. I was very disappointed.

But regency romance in space sounds like it would be awesome.

Though of a much more recent vintage:

War of the Worlds: global dispatches / edited by Kevin Anderson.

An anthology of reactions of famous people such as Theodore Roosevelt, Emily Dickinson, Mark Twain, and Pablo Picasso to the martian invasion. (The foreword is written as though it was by H.G. Wells)

As I am cataloging, I don't actually get to read this at work (Which is why it's a good thing I don't get to catalog the sci-fi. Alas.) but flipping through it, it looks delightful.

Counting down to the last hours of the Sundown Kickstarter and we continue to be overwhelmed and honored by the support that we've gotten. When we started I was pretty confident that we'd be able to make our initial goal, though I was amazed that we made it so fast (I mean, 48 hours!) and then I thought that we might be able to make our last stretch goal, but we not only made that one too, but have added two stretch goals after that.

I like to call the last stretch goal the Viking Party Pack (officially the Futhark Song Teaching Collection) because in addition to teaching all of the parts of the Futhark Song, there will be a track of the Allfather's names so you can learn those too and be prepared for the next time you wind up at a Viking riddle contest because the Vikings were all about showing off your nerd cred.

After this we'll be performing at Worldcon San Antonio and continuing to work on recording for the CD. Thanks again for your support!

And possibly I'll post about other things occasionally, though I don't know how interesting adventures in cataloging and weightlifting are to people who aren't me. (Honestly, with the exception of moments where I'm muttering at records going 'what was the person who made this record thinking?' adventures in cataloging is only as interesting as how unusual or cool the book I have is. And sadly, I mutter at the records in despair a lot.)