Vintage Worlds 2 and 3 Kickstarter!
Sep. 1st, 2020 09:40 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
ecosophia
I'm delighted to announce that Founders House Publishers has just launched its Kickstarter campaign for Vintage Worlds 2 and 3, two new volumes of original short stories about the Old Solar System -- that is to say, outer space as it should have been, with swordsmen dueling along the banks of the Grand Canal on Mars, strange creatures slithering through the steaming jungles of Venus, and all the other details of the greatest shared fictional cosmos ever created by the human imagination. Both volumes are edited by Zendexor, the amiable host of Solarsystemheritage.com, and me; both are chockfull of two- (or more-)fisted adventure tales set in the science fictional future we didn't get: Volume 2 includes the following stories: Whom Gods Destroy by Dylan Jeninga
Zookie Must Die by Violet Bertelsen
Flow by K S Augustin
Flame Lords of Jupiter by Robert Gibson
The Sarcastic Snake-Men of Neptune by Troy Jones III
The Lost Rings of Saturn by James W Murphy
Beyond Despair by Jamie Ross
The Horse-Men of Ganymede by Ron Mucklestone
Exodus by Joel Caris
Blood Prince of Venus by Joel B Jones
Volume 3 includes these stories:
Volume 3 includes these stories:
Home by Levi Seeley
A Martian Iliad by Ariel Cohen
On the Shoreline of Darkness by Violet Bertelsen
The Arc of Iapetus by Robert Gibson
Europa Dive by Jamie Ross
The Resurrection of Merrick Hardcastle by K S Augustin
Pirates of Titan by Dylan Jeninga
Cutter Pristine by James W Murphy
Lady Penelope and the Drug Lords of Venus by David England
Ghosts of Saturn by Augustus and Lenore Keden
Love in the Mountains of Venus by Ron Mucklestone
Interested? Intrigued? Ready to climb aboard the next rocket ship to Neptune? Here's your boarding pass.
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Date: 2020-09-02 03:19 am (UTC)https://www.businessinsider.com/why-nasa-spacesuits-so-expensive-cost-russia-spacex-2020-3
Four suits. Four.
We all know humans will never live out of Earth, but this hurts more than I expected.
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Date: 2020-09-02 09:08 pm (UTC)A shame you don't have a story in the mix, JMG! Next time?
Synchronicity
Date: 2020-09-02 11:47 pm (UTC)I just posted on your Ecosophia blog about a synchronicity having to do with a Tim Powers novel, Last Call.
Coincidentally, my library request for another title by him, Salvage and Demolition, was ready and I picked it up today.
Reading Chapter 1, this sentence riveted my attention:
“...his gaze had fallen on the science fiction paperback, and, though he hadn’t given it more than a glance a few moments earlier, he was sure that it was now a different book; its cover had been dark purple, some kind of outer space scene with planets or rockets or something of that sort, but now it was green and yellow— giant lizards chasing men in a jungle with What Vast Image in lurid lettering across the top.”
Close enough to your two covers to stop me in my tracks.
Now, which tracks might these be, I am asking myself.
Heading over to Kickstarter now!
The Kickstarter is time sensitive
Date: 2020-09-04 12:48 pm (UTC)