200 years to christmas - ed valigursky (artist)

the title is awesome. there's a crisis in the tenth generation?! is that the famous star that guided the wise men?

I don't know anything about the story, I just like the title, hopefully I'm not propagating anything that I wouldn't. I don't mean to promote misogynist, racist, juvenile, jingoist, nationalist, or just not-very-good writing.

@art #art #scifiart #pulpart #acedouble #relativity #christmas #aerodynamic 🎅

#Books and #stories completed in July:⁰

22 ss | 03 nvt | 02 nva | 09 nov

Potential Enemy - Mack Reynolds (ss) ●●●◐○

Pawley's Peepholes - John Wyndham (ss) ●●●◐○

Assault on Fortress Sol - Ralts Bloodthorne (nov) {Behold: Humanity! 07} ●●●●○ #HFY

Fifty Years of Wonder - Leigh Brackett (intro to Best of Edmond Hamilton collection) ●●●○○

Return of the Dragon - M L Maki (nov) {Fighting Tomcats 10} ●●●●○ #AlternateHistory

Pillar to Post - John Wyndham (ss) ●●●◐○ #MindTransfer

Medal of Honor - Mack Reynolds (ss) ●●●○○

The Pro - Edmond Hamilton (ss) ●●◐○○

Technical Slip - John Wyndham (ss) ●●●●○ #reincarnation

The Wagered World - Laurence M Janifer & S J Treibich (nva) {Angelo diStefano 3} ●●○○○ [attempted humor, more pointlessly weird than funny]

The Value of Honor - Gina Marie Wylie (nov)¹ {alt-Kalvan 1}² ●●●●◐

Monster-God of Mamurth - Edmond Hamilton (ss) ●●●●○

Island of Unreason - Edmond Hamilton (ss) ●●●○○

Adaptation - John Wyndham (ss) ●●●◐○

Chronocide Mission - Lloyd Biggle Jr (nov) ●●●●○ [very slow first half, but then progress and a double twist ending]

A Conquest of Two Worlds - Edmond Hamilton (nvt) ●●●◐○

The Man Who Evolved - Edmond Hamilton (ss) ●●●◐○

Atlantida ⬙ Pierre Benoit (nov) ●●●○○

Emergency Skin - N K Jemison (nvt) ●●●●○

Red Portal - John J Rust (nov) ●●◐○○ #TimeTravel

Happy Ending - Mack Reynolds & Fredric Brown (ss) ●●●○○

Thundering Worlds - Edmond Hamilton (ss) ●●◐○○

The Cost of Time - Gina Marie Wylie (nov) {alt-Kalvan 2} ●●●●◐

Accursed Galaxy - Edmond Hamilton (ss) ●●●◐○

A Stray from Cathay - John Wyndham (ss) ●●●○○

The Man Who Returned - Edmond Hamilton (ss) ●●●○○

Bartley's Man (nov) {Grantville} ●●●◐○ #AltHistory

In the World's Dusk - Edmond Hamilton (ss) ●●◐○○

Dogfight—1973 - Mack Reynolds (ss) ●●○○○

The Spider and the Stars ⬖ D K Mok (ss) ●●◐○○

The Blind Spot - Austin Hall & Homer Eon Flint (nov) {Spot 1} ●●●◐○ #SFF

Conquest of the Space Sea - Robert Moore Williams (nva) ●●◐○○ #AceDouble

Child of the Winds - Edmond Hamilton (ss) ●●◐○○

The Artificial Man - Clare Winger Harris (ss) ●●●◐○

Confidence Trick - John Wyndham (ss) ●●●◐○

Grow, Give, Repeat ⬖ Gregory Scheckler (ss) ●●●●○ #SolarPunk

The Ark - Veronica Roth (nvt) ●●●◐○

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20 ss | 08 nvt | 02 nva | 07 nov == May
19 ss | 04 nvt | 03 nva | 09 nov == June

⬙ = Atlantis and Lemuria: 13 Classic Tales
⬖ = Glass and Gardens: Solarpunk Summers

[1] The stats say that The Value of Honor, at 3316 pages, is the longest work I've read on #koReader since I installed it mid-March.³

Granted, I read at 38 points on a 1440×1920 8-inch screen, giving me 16 lines per screen. It would be ~750 pages in paperback. If I hadn't split Atlantis and Lemuria: 13 Classic Tales into individual novels, that anthology would have come in at over 14,000 screens.

[2] Gina Marie Wylie wrote Lord Kalvan of Otherwhen fan fiction. (Yes: an #AltHist version of an alt-hist story.) The trilogy is set after John F Carr's Gunpowder God, but the books were written before he released his final two Kalvan novels. #fanfic

GMW ends the Fireseed Wars more quickly, picking up events after seven years of peace. She begins her tale with five teenage girls and two adults who were going on a camping trip when their van was caught up in a conveyor crossover and dumped in Kalvan's Timeline.

They're in the Southwest, which the Mexicotál – allied with West Coast Zarthani, in whose realm the remnants of Styphon's House have set up shop – are about to invade. Kalvan is mentioned often in the first novel, but only shows up for a few short conversations near the end of the book. The trilogy's middle volume adds another local girl as a mostly-separate plot thread. #ScienceFiction

Neither ArchiveOfOurOwn·org nor FanFiction·net lists other Kalvan #fanfic besides Gina Marie's trilogy, but some is likely out there. Wylie's Kalvan timeline novels focus on other characters, with Kalvan and Verkan and the rest only making cameos. GWM's books are slightly better than Carr's. #SciFi

[3] I doubt anyone reads these posts, but I suspect that's true of most posts. I like having #reading statistics and filling a nice calendar. My reading time is up noticeably since installing KOReader. Even if this post means nothing to anyone else, it has value to me.

#Books completed in March:

An Angel Called Peterbilt - Gorg Huff & Paula Goodlett {Assiti Shards | Peterbilt 1} ●●●●◐ #TimeTravel

The Reset Life of Cassandra Collins - Shawn Inmon {Middle Falls 8} ●●○○○ #reincarnation

How Alike Are We - Bo-young Kim (novella) ●●●●○ #AI

The Pool Is Reserved for Podlings - Ralts Bloodthorne {Behold: Humanity! 3} ●●●●○ #HFY

Parasite Puppeteers - Jim Bowering {Green Comet 2} ●●●○○ #ScienceFiction

Time Shards - Dana Fredsti & David Fitzgerald {Time Shards 1} ●●●◐○ #SciFi

The Heartfelt Life of Max Hartfield - Shawn Inmon (ss) {Middle Falls 14.5} ●●○○○ #SFF

Delete All Suspects - Donna Andrews {Turing Hopper 4} ●●●●○ #Mystery

The Battlemaster - Christopher Rowley {The Vang 3} ●●●●○ #reading

Shatter War - Dana Fredsti & David Fitzgerald {Time Shards 2} ●●●◐○ #AltHist

Dome Around America - Jack Williamson ●●◐○○ #ClassicSciFi #AceDouble