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From io9:

Tiffany Aching, the teenage witch who stars in Terry Pratchett’s latest novel I Shall Wear Midnight, is in many ways the anti-Harry Potter.

True, she’s a precocious pubescent who gets to ride a broomstick and save the day, but the final installment of her four-novel series of adventures is no jolly tale of boarding school, wand-waving and chocolate frogs. In fact, it is highly likely that a book so savagely bleak as I Shall Wear Midnight has not been marketed to children since the days of Struwwelpeter.

For example, not thirty pages in, Tiffany is called to assist when a pregnant thirteen-year-old miscarries after being assaulted by her violent, alcoholic father. The young witch is able to use hedge-magic to take away the girl’ s pain before burying the foetus; the father later hangs himself. Hogwarts, it ain’t.

Like I said, I’d like to see something like an anti-Twilight novel. I hate sparkly vampires.

Mars may have running water:

PASADENA, Calif. — The ground where NASA’s Mars Exploration Rover Spirit became stuck last year holds evidence that water, perhaps as snow melt, trickled into the subsurface fairly recently and on a continuing basis.

Where there is water, there can be life. So, let’s quit screwing around and get to Mars, OK?

Crossposted from Radio-Free-Peoria.

Dimension X: Destination Moon

I might have some other Heinlein material later on.

This is in German, but you don’t need to understand trhe language to grok this commercial.

And the Master was quite fond of Star Trek.

I received the following email and I am happy to print it:

Dear owner of the heinleinblog

I found you blog searching through the web for fan pages and blogs on Robert A Heinlein.

I am sending this email to inform you about the Virginia Edition, and to kindly ask you for a favor.

As you might already know, the Virginia Edition of Heinlein’s works will soon be published. With this in mind, I’m wondering if it’s possible for you to post some information about this limited edition of Heinlein’s works on your blog?

- The Virginia Edition is a complete, leather bound, collection of Robert A. Heinlein’s works, commissioned by his late wife, Virginia Heinlein.
The collection is printed in a limited volume of copies and includes never before released works from the highly acclaimed author. For more infomation, go to www.virginiaedition.com

I’m also attaching some files that we will be using for advertisement on the Internet – like on facebook, fan pages etc. If you’d like to post one or more of these, or just some information in text on your blog, we would be very grateful.

Kind regards
Aleksander M Larsen
Intern at The Virginia Edition and Heinlein Prize Trust

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