October 13, 2005

BBC NEWS | World | Asia-Pacific | Bird-like dinosaur forces rethink: “A rooster-sized dinosaur with a long, slender snout and wing-like limbs is forcing a rethink on bird evolution.

The 90 million-year-old reptile belongs to the same sickle-clawed group of dinosaurs as Velociraptor and feathered dinosaurs from China.

Buitreraptor gonzalezorum, from the Nequn Basin in central Argentina may provide tantalising evidence that powered flight evolved twice.

Details of the discovery appear in the academic journal Nature.”

This is one cool-looking dinosaur.

via DHL Express, according to Amazon.co.uk.

Tip: if you pre-order from Amazon.uk, don’t use priority shipping. They ship so that you have the book by the pub date (in this case, October 17). So they send regular mail packages out a few days earlier! Rrrr…

Locus Online: George R.R. Martin excerpt: “Excerpt from George R.R. Martin’s A Feast for Crows,
fourth book of ‘A Song of Ice and Fire’,
to be published November 8, 2005,
by Bantam Spectra”

This Aeron chapter has already been published in several other locations, but well worth reading if you haven’t seen it yet.

Here is the cover for UNAUTHORIZED A FEAST FOR CROWS ANALYSIS (Nimble Books, November 8, 2005).

BlogThis!

Richard Stark (aka Donald E. Westlake) stands alone as a writer of tough-guy crime fiction. This new cover from Hard Case Crime is a retro beauty. 

Pinter Wins Nobel Prize in Literature - Yahoo! News: “STOCKHOLM, Sweden - British playwright Harold Pinter, who juxtaposed the brutal and the banal in such works as ‘The Caretaker’ and ‘The Birthday Party’ and made an art form out of spare language and unbearable silence, won the 2005 Nobel Prize in literature Thursday….

“Pinter restored theater to its basic elements: an enclosed space and unpredictable dialogue where people are at the mercy of each other and pretense crumbles,” the academy said.

A good choice for once.

via DHL Express, according to Amazon.co.uk.

Tip: if you pre-order from Amazon.uk, don’t use priority shipping. They ship so that you have the book by the pub date (in this case, October 17). So they send regular mail packages out a few days earlier! Rrrr…

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Posted by wfzimmerman to Unauthorized A FEAST FOR CROWS Analysis at 10/13/2005 07:47:00 AM

Locus Online: George R.R. Martin excerpt: “Excerpt from George R.R. Martin’s A Feast for Crows,
fourth book of ‘A Song of Ice and Fire’,
to be published November 8, 2005,
by Bantam Spectra”

This Aeron chapter has already been published in several other locations, but well worth reading if you haven’t seen it yet.

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Posted by wfzimmerman to Unauthorized A FEAST FOR CROWS Analysis at 10/13/2005 06:52:31 AM