From Gay: Joe's novel BUYING TIME is on sale today only, June 18, on all e-platforms! $1.99.   https://www.amazon.com/Buying-Time-Joe-Haldeman-ebook/dp/B076RCR46P/ref=sr_1_9?dchild=1& ( Read more... )

1. Spring 1970.  Writing on THE FOREVER WAR at the outdoor hot dog cafe in Brooksville. It opened at 9 in the morning and had ice-cold beer. Outside of town, on the road to Ocala. Biked there with the Olivetti Valentine strapped on the bike, maybe a half-mile. They had great foot-long chili dogs!

But I'd start my day before that.  I'd usually get ( Read more... )

Joe's collection VIETNAM AND OTHER ALIEN WORLDS is on sale at Earlybirdbooks and Amazon and elsewhere, just today, November 21. $1.99

https://www.amazon.com/Vietnam ( Read more... )

Just finished reading DEADWOOD, by Pete Dexter, for the second time. I read it some years ago in Australia, and it stuck in my mind -- so strongly that when I picked it up again a couple of weeks ago, at random, I kept on reading. It's an unusually rewarding book.

It's sort of in the fake-biography mode, carefully researched but amplified with ( Read more... )

From Gay: Early Bird Books has FOREVER FREE, the sequel to THE FOREVER WAR, as a daily deal today, June 9. https://openroadmedia.com/ebook/forever-free/9781504039574

Kindle Daily Deal on Amazon.com  is selling THE FOREVER WAR ebook today only for $1.99.

From Gay: THERE IS NO DARKNESS, the novel collaboration between Joe and his brother, Jack C. Haldeman II, is on sale today only, March 18, for $1.99.
http://www.openroadmedia.com/ebook/there-is-no-darkness/
and also on EarlyBirdBooks.com. http://www.earlybirdbooks.com/ and on Amazon, Barnes and Noble, etc.
Buy early and often!

We watched Aldebaran blink out last night in occultation, right on time at 10:59 p.m. Right above the quarter moon. Quietly magical. Nicely scheduled; we just came in from a Pierce Pettis concert, and watched it from the driveway ( Read more... )

We had a few hours of good observing last night, though I got tired and pooped out. There wasn't a long line at the star telescope (so to speak), a giant 10" refractor., where we saw gorgeous colors in the Orion Nebula, and a stunning clear view of "the Pup," the dim white-dwarf companion to Sirius. (It's nine magnitudes dimmer than the Dog Star, ( Read more... )

Friday: Saw a Key Deer a couple of houses away yesterday morning.

We went over to the Winter Star Party site, but heavy clouds moved in.. We were moved by Christian charity to buy a box of Girl Scout cookies from a table of cuties, though, and charitably munched a dozen or so, walking back.

Too tired from our labors to even watch television. More ( Read more... )