tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22238276378741974332024-03-05T03:52:48.715-08:00Virginia Edition UpdatesSimon Jesterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08262822736016993687noreply@blogger.comBlogger90125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2223827637874197433.post-46390130214485722162019-11-05T13:17:00.001-08:002019-11-05T13:17:16.709-08:00<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Houston (October 17, 2019) – Robert A. Heinlein’s continuing influence on space activities and education will be celebrated at the 70th annual International Astronautical Congress (IAC) next week in Washington, D.C. Throughout the week, the HPT will host special guests including NASA astronauts, authors, subject matter experts, representatives from HPT partner programs and international officials.</div>
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The Heinlein Prize Trust (HPT), a non-profit organization that honors the memory of Heinlein and reflects his vision and spirit for expanding human space exploration, is a silver sponsor of the IAC. HPT’s participation includes an exhibit showcasing Heinlein’s works, memorabilia, education programs, and partner projects from around the globe. Four-time shuttle astronaut Dr. Don Thomas will be in HPT’s booth #295 during the IAC demonstrating flown space suits and explaining the trust’s educational programs. </div>
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One of the most prolific, award-winning American writers, Heinlein’s works are available in 128 countries in more than 30 languages. The Virginia Edition, a 2,000-set limited edition of all of Heinlein’s works in a 46-volume leather-bound set, is one of the most important publishing events in modern U.S. history. The books will be on display at IAC and are available for a limited time only; click here for additional information. </div>
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IAC participants will be able to see, first-hand, Heinlein’s impact on space and the variety of programs and partnerships that encourage and reward progress in commercial space activities that advance Robert and his wife Virginia’s dream of humanity’s future in space. </div>
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Heinlein Prize: the $250,000 award designed to recognize, encourage and reward accomplishments of individuals in commercial space activities that advance Heinlein and his wife Virginia’s dream of humanity's future in space. Recipients to date are Peter Diamandis, Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos.partnership with the Heinlein Society to provide science fiction books, including Heinlein novels, to active military personnel, their families and veterans. To date, more than 23,000 books have been donated. </div>
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Heinlein for Heroes: a partnership with the Heinlein Society to provide science fiction books, including Heinlein novels, to active military personnel, their families and veterans. To date, more than 23,000 books have been donated. </div>
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Heinlein Professorship at Naval Academy: the endowment of the Heinlein professorship in aerospace engineering at the U.S. Naval Academy. Heinlein was a Navy Academy graduate and retired from the Navy as an officer in 1934. </div>
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Partnership with the International Space University for the Heinlein Pay It Forward scholarship fund: To date, 223 students from all over the world have received funds and have voluntarily reimbursed the fund to provide grants for future students. HPT is conducting a campaign to endow and expand this fund.</div>
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Have Space Suit-Will Travel: The program brings show real space suits to students that have reached more than 100,00 students in 15 countries. The program includes a space curriculum, visits from astronauts, hands-on experiences with flown space suits, posters and more. Heinlein’s book Have Space Suit-Will Travel is now a graphic novel available in print and digital formats.</div>
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As part of Have Space Suit-Will Travel, HPT works with the Mexican Space Agency to show space suits to Mexican students in Mexico. The campaign includes educational programs for students including a variety of materials available in Spanish and a free science curriculum. The program serves as a major educational opportunity for students in Mexico to learn about science and space. An official of the Mexican Space Agency, Mario M. Arreola Santander, will work with the trust at the IAC to explain the program.</div>
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New writing contest: HPT and the Commercial Spaceflight Federation are sponsoring a contest for 6th to 8thgrade students to write an essay, poem or create a piece of artwork inspired by Heinlein’s works and illustrating his relevance today. Submissions are due January 31, 2020. Winners will be recognized in conjunction with HPT’s first “Heinlein on the Hill” event in Spring 2020 that will bring together students, educators, policymakers, space industry leaders, contest winners, and others for an event on Capitol Hill. </div>
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International Institute of Space Law (IISL): HPT is a sponsor of the IISL Awards dinner at the Library of Congress as part of a student legal competition next week where NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine will be the keynote speaker. </div>
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On Sunday evening, one of HPT’s trustees, Art Dula, will be awarded the Social Sciences Award by the International Academy of Astronautics. </div>
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HPT and Phoenix Pick, an imprint of the Arc Manor publishing company, also announced a soon-to-be-published new novel by Heinlein, The new novel, The Pursuit of the Pantera, is based on a recently found Heinlein’s manuscript. </div>
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The Heinlein Prize® honors the memory of Robert A. Heinlein™, a renowned American author. The purpose of the Heinlein Prize® is to encourage and reward progress in commercial space activities that advances Robert and his wife Virginia’s dream of humanity’s future in space. More information is available on HPT’s website. Follow HPT on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram.</div>
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Erg!http://www.blogger.com/profile/06792403578328645068noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2223827637874197433.post-91238723755578945832016-06-24T10:24:00.001-07:002016-06-24T10:24:49.543-07:00 Jeff Bezos Named Heinlein Prize Recipient<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white;">Seattle - The Heinlein Prize Trust announced today that it is awarding its prestigious Heinlein Prize to Jeff Bezos, founder of <span style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="cursor: pointer;">Blue Origin</span>,</span> for his vision and leadership in commercial space activities that have led to historic firsts and reusability in the commercial spaceflight industry.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white;">The Heinlein Prize honors the memory of Robert A. Heinlein®, a renowned American author. The purpose of the Heinlein Prize is to encourage and reward progress in commercial space activities that advances Robert and his wife Virginia’s dream of humanity’s future in space. In addition to the award, recipients receive a Lady Vivamus sword from Robert Heinlein’s novel, Glory Road.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white;">Under Bezos’ leadership, Blue Origin developed a number of technology firsts that are driving U.S. space competitiveness. The reusable BE-3, a liquid hydrogen and liquid oxygen engine, is now being used in Blue Origin’s New Shepard spacecraft. New Shepard is the first rocket ever to fly above the Karman line into space and then land vertically upon the Earth. Furthermore, it has done so multiple times with the same rocket hardware – not even removing the engine between flights. In late 2014, Blue Origin reached a commercial agreement with a private launch company to develop the BE-4 engine which could be used to power the next generation of U.S. launch vehicles.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white;">“Under Jeff’s visionary leadership, Blue Origin has developed launch vehicles and a commercially-financed line of engines that pave the way to reusability in space transportation,” said Art Dula, Trustee of the Heinlein Prize Trust. “As a recipient of the Heinlein Prize, we recognize Jeff and the efforts of the Blue Origin team in its development of technologies that could revolutionize the industry and provide commercially-available launch capabilities to a variety of customers.”</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white;">“Robert Heinlein inspired millions with his visionary—and incredibly entertaining—stories, and it’s an honor for all of us at Blue Origin to receive this award,” said Jeff Bezos, founder of Blue Origin. “Heinlein foresaw a thriving future with humans throughout the solar system. We won’t stop working to make that vision come true.”</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white;">Bezos is the third recipient of the Heinlein Prize. The first award was to <span style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="cursor: pointer;">Dr. Peter Diamandis</span> </span>in 2006 for the Ansari XPRIZE and SpaceShipOne, the first manned commercial vehicle to fly to space. The second prize was awarded to SpaceX CEO <span style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="cursor: pointer;">Elon Musk</span></span> in 2011 for the Falcon 1, the first privately-developed launch vehicle to orbit the Earth.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white;">Announcement of the award was made today at the <span style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="cursor: pointer;">NewSpace </span></span>conference in Seattle. This event attracts space industry leaders, startups, policymakers, the investment community and technology innovators. The Heinlein Prize is a sponsor of NewSpace, where it is exhibiting the Have Space Suit – Will Travel educational program that includes the spacesuit worn by former astronaut and current NASA Administrator, Charles Bolden.</span></div>
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Erg!http://www.blogger.com/profile/06792403578328645068noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2223827637874197433.post-39485043751028570942015-11-03T11:55:00.000-08:002015-11-11T12:17:21.118-08:00Have Space Suit will Travel at AIC 2015 Conference in Israel<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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questions about walking on the moon and about his latest children's book; </span><b style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.5pt;"><a href="https://jet.com/product/detail/25728a4204ac42b5baf3e0ece7b05383?jcmp=pla:ggl:media_a3:books_childrens_books_a3_other:na:na:na:na:na:2&code=PLA15&k_clickid=bf11c783-c556-4b58-8e31-06033d4181a7&gclid=COHB3a2D9cgCFQasaQodfj4GRQ" target="_blank">"Welcome to Mars: Making a Home on the Red Planet"</a>.</b></div>
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<span style="color: #f3f3f3; font-family: inherit;">Robert Heinlein is one of my all-time favorite sci-fi authors. I used to devour his works voraciously, from the undisputed classics to his more questionable later works. Somehow, though, I’ve never read <em style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px;">Citizen of the Galaxy</em>. I have no idea how faithful this comic adaptation is to the original, or whether or not it does justice to the novel. What I do know is that it’s a very entertaining read.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #f3f3f3; font-family: inherit;">This was originally a Young Adult novel—or a “Juvenile” as they called it back then. It follows Thorby, a young slave boy, sold at auction on a distant planet to an old beggar named Baslim. Baslim has a very strict moral code, which includes the wholehearted belief that people should not be sold as slaves. So, instead, he raises Thorby as a son, educates him, and gives him a life that’s meager, even squalid, but also free, loving, and ultimately happy.</span></div>
<span style="color: #f3f3f3; font-family: inherit;"><br />Over time, it becomes apparent that Baslim is more than just an old, crippled beggar. He knows things and does things that aren’t befitting of his status, and he keeps all sorts of secrets. One thing is certain, though: he’s a good man in a world that’s sorely lacking in good men.<br />This first issue covers a whole lot of ground, seeing Thorby grow from boyhood to young adulthood and setting up quite a bit of plot in the process. Heinlein’s stories always have a rather sweeping scope, though. They take us through quite a bit, but it’s always a fun ride.<br />Heinlein fans will recognize several other familiar themes, as well, such as the use of hypnosis and eidetic memory. The way they’re used can be a little silly at times, and they definitely strain credulity, but they make for convenient plot devices to advance the rest of the story, which is the important thing.<br />The artwork here is great, as well, vivid and colorful, bringing the world of the distant planet on which the story takes place to life and adding depth to the story. Between the two, I was hooked right from the beginning and was held in rapt attention all the way through. I can’t wait till the next issue. If you’re a fan of Heinlein, YA sci-fi, space travel, or just really cool and compelling stories, you’ll want to take a look at <em style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px;"><a href="http://www.heinleinbooks.com/#!book-store/ctw8" target="_blank">Citizen of the Galaxy</a></em>.</span><br />
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Erg!http://www.blogger.com/profile/06792403578328645068noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2223827637874197433.post-64903124360493452852015-03-27T11:01:00.001-07:002015-03-27T11:01:54.389-07:00New Heinlein Story?<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Erg!http://www.blogger.com/profile/06792403578328645068noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2223827637874197433.post-2092845586171209982015-03-18T11:25:00.001-07:002015-03-18T11:25:13.912-07:00Bringing Heinlein's Lunar Revolution Home<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">Halvorssen is talking to me about a film he’s producing based on Robert Heinlein’s classic 1966 novel of a libertarian revolt on the moon,</span><span style="line-height: 1.5em;"> </span><em style="border: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">The Moon is a Harsh Mistress.</em><span style="line-height: 1.5em;"> </span><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">(It's the book that popularized the libertarian catch phrase "There Ain't No Such Thing As A Free Lunch," or TANSTAAFL, as a slogan for its revolutionaries.) </span><em style="border: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">"</em><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">If what you are looking for is a message movie, you will be disappointed. This is an amazing story of struggle against government tyranny by a group of people who want freedom and the right to determine their own futures. You can call that ideological if you want, but I just call it a great, great movie."</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Fans of science fiction writer Heinlein and libertarians—two circles with a large overlap—were simultaneously excited and unsettled at the announcement two weeks ago that 20th Century Fox intends to make, with <a href="http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001741/" style="border: 0px; color: #fc8600; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;">Bryan Singer</a> (most famous for his work on various <em style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">X-Men</em> movies) attached to direct, a movie version of Heinlein’s <em style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0312863551/reasonmagazineA/" style="border: 0px; color: #fc8600; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;">The Moon is Harsh Mistress</a>.</em> (In 2007, I wrote a <em style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Reason</em> feature about <a href="http://reason.com/archives/2007/07/09/robert-heinlein-at-100" style="border: 0px; color: #fc8600; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;">Heinlein’s complicated, multi-level appeal to libertarians</a>.)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Devoted book fans often rightfully fear Hollywood’s rough, leveling hands wrecking what’s unique and delightful about their literary loves. Heinlein heads tend to react with a shudder to Paul Verhoeven’s 1997 <em style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Starship Troopers</em>, widely seen as more a burlesque of Heinleinian ideas than a skilled instantiation of them. Fans of the pure Heinlein jolt sniff the leeching of its unique qualities already in the film’s bland announced working title of <em style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Uprising</em>.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Halvorssen wants to get some things on the record "before things get out of hand with fanboys or anyone else who has already decided their own view on a project they know nothing about." (He seems well aware of the two-edged sword of a built-in enthusiastic audience for a property, particularly one whose enthusiasm is at least in part based on ideology.) "It's important to be open and not allow for doubts to cloud people’s perceptions. We do want all the goodwill we can get [from the book’s existing fan base] and don’t want people doubting our commitment to make a big, fun, entertaining movie that captures the essence of Heinlein."</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Halvorssen is experienced with bringing libertarian-beloved science fiction classics to screen; he produced in 2009 a short film based on Kurt Vonnegut’s anti-egalitarian fable "Harrison Bergeron," <a href="http://reason.com/archives/2010/03/21/vonnegut-on-film" style="border: 0px; color: #fc8600; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;">under the title 2081</a>. He founded the <a href="http://www.thempi.org/" style="border: 0px; color: #fc8600; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;">Moving Picture Institute</a> (MPI) in 2005, an organization dedicated to helping build and support movies that, in the words of their slogan, "promote freedom through film."</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Halvorssen has no official link with MPI anymore, but he honors its role in giving him experience in making various previous documentaries, all essentially "about revolution against tyranny, against totalitarian systems" set in worlds from <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2007/12/14/movies/14revo.html?_r=0" style="border: 0px; color: #fc8600; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;">Estonia</a> to <a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0870117/" style="border: 0px; color: #fc8600; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;">Russia</a> to <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indoctrinate_U" style="border: 0px; color: #fc8600; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;">American universities</a>. "MPI was my film school as a producer, and while MPI is not involved in this production in any way, they were so central to my development as a producer that I can say this is not just my credit, it’s their credit."</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Halvorssen knows that in film industry terms, he’s on a different level than his production partners. He’s amused how the announcement in the movie trades listed the three producers as Bryan Singer, one of the biggest adventure/thriller directors of our time; <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lloyd_Braun" style="border: 0px; color: #fc8600; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;">Lloyd Braun</a>, former chairman of ABC; and Thor Halvorssen. “Who?” he imagined many thinking.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Halvorssen’s avocation is unusual among Hollywood players: full-time human rights activism, via the <a href="http://humanrightsfoundation.org/" style="border: 0px; color: #fc8600; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;">Human Rights Foundation</a> and the annual Oslo Freedom Forum. The latter is a yearly confab known to some as the "Davos" (or "Woodstock") for human rights activism, a place for people to tell direct stories of their oppression under some of what Halvorssen considers the world’s worst tyrannies, from Angola to Pakistan to Saudi Arabia to Venezuela (his family’s native land, whose government illegitimately imprisoned his father and shot and wounded his mother) to Iran to Bahrain to North Korea to Equatorial Guinea ("one of the worst tyrannies on the planet, and no one hears about it"). The event provides a place to hear from and celebrate "real live heroes, not just symbols of survival and the nobility of the human spirit but actual active Mandelas in the making, Solzhenitsyns in the making." </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Halvorssen realizes his filmmaking team has to walk a fine line adopting this most libertarian of Heinlein works; libertarianism so-called (he stresses "libertarian" is not how he self-identifies, preferring "classical liberal" or "anti-fascist") is not Hollywood’s favorite ideology. Still, he is sure that his Fox/Singer team is on board with what’s really key to the <em style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Moon</em> story.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Still, "anyone expecting quotations from political tracts in this movie will be sorely disappointed," he says. Even though one of the book’s central characters, <a href="http://reason.com/blog/2012/10/02/robert-heinlein-muses-on-anarcho-capital" style="border: 0px; color: #fc8600; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;">Bernardo de la Paz</a>, does have a tendency toward political lectures in defense of "rational anarchy," I ask?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Halvorssen detects I’m trying to get him to get specific about what elements of the novel will or won’t be in the finished product. But its screenplay, being written by <a href="http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0973233/" style="border: 0px; color: #fc8600; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;">Marc Guggenheim</a> (currently an executive producer on the CW show <em style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Arrow</em>, the writer of the <em style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Green Lantern</em> movie, and someone who, Halvorssen says, "has a perfect understanding of what the book is and he is a brilliant writer") is still being perfected, Halvorssen says.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Such questions, he warns me, are a "non-starter" at this stage. (The film does not yet have a set date to start shooting.) "What will, what won’t happen, what’s in, who's out, what we are redacting" are things he’s not going to discuss now. He doesn’t want to worry about fans out there starting to take notes on, "Oh my, they eliminated the plot element of sexual liberation which in the 1950s might have been an amazing plot point but nowadays would be, yawn….that sort of thing is not the issue, the issue is capturing the essence of the story."</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Halvorssen is thrilled to have Bryan Singer on board. "He could have just been a producer, so that he chose to direct too is huge. This is his next movie after the next <em style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">X-Men</em> movie." (His 2014 <em style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">X-Men</em> film <a href="http://www.boxofficemojo.com/yearly/chart/?view2=worldwide&yr=2014" style="border: 0px; color: #fc8600; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;">was number 6 for the year</a> in worldwide gross.) "Getting him was like throwing a dart and hitting bull’s-eye the first time. His [production company’s] guys are like warriors of story, obsessively focused on story, story, character development, character development. I don’t think there has been a single discussion on politics in the entire time I have been on calls with them, which has been dozens of hours."</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">While Halvorssen grants that open classical liberalism isn’t something you find in a lot of Hollywood power players, he says he’s gotten no bad reactions or pushback based on his Human Rights Foundation or Oslo Freedom Forum work. "If people want to I.D. us as anti-dictatorship, looking to overthrow, using peaceful resistance and education, overthrow foreign powers that oppress their people, they are at liberty to take that interpretation because it happens to be true," he says, though he stresses amid this revolutionary talk that "I’m a non-violence fanatic."</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Whether or not his colleagues on this film project agree with all his political goals is irrelevant, he says. Though he’s never had occasion to talk politics specifically with Guggenheim or top Fox execs, he says the "words 'libertarian ideas' have been used by the writer several times. We are not unaware of what the book is and certainly not unaware of the reason why we are doing this." Love for Heinlein runs deep among Hollywood storytellers; "the number of studio executives who have called Lloyd [Braun] and said, 'Oh man, that’s what I wanted to do,' have been several."</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Halvorssen is proud one of his recent human rights endeavors, in alliance with one of his earliest financiers and a co-producer on the <em style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Moon</em> movie project, venture capitalist <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Lloyd_%28venture_capitalist%29" style="border: 0px; color: #fc8600; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;">Alex Lloyd</a>, is <a href="http://www.wired.co.uk/magazine/archive/2015/04/features/hacking-north-korea/viewall" style="border: 0px; color: #fc8600; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;">featured this month in <em style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Wired</em> magazine</a>: sending balloons over North Korea with anti-regime propaganda, U.S. dollars, and copies of the regime-mocking <a href="http://reason.com/blog/2014/12/19/drop-comedy-bombs-not-real-bombs-why-not" style="border: 0px; color: #fc8600; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;">controversial film <em style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">The Interview</em></a><em style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">.</em></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">"The guys taking on the North Korean government also happen to be making a Heinlein picture," Halvorssen says, proudly.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">"Is a movie about fighting tyranny conservative or liberal or libertarian?" Halvorssen asks. "It’s quintessentially American, that’s what it is. This is not going to be a film about politics. This is going to be a great big entertaining movie about the struggle for freedom on the moon by a group of devoted idealists who have an amazing story fighting against tyranny.”</span></div>
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Erg!http://www.blogger.com/profile/06792403578328645068noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2223827637874197433.post-81832854618458453062015-03-08T20:53:00.000-07:002015-03-08T20:53:00.365-07:00Bryan Singer to direct The Moon is a Harsh Mistress<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;">Bryan Singer is to adapt Robert Heinlein’s classic right-wing libertarian science-fiction novel The Moon is a Harsh Mistress for the big screen, <a class=" u-underline" data-component="in-body-link" data-link-name="in body link" href="http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/heat-vision/bryan-singer-tackling-sci-fi-778949" style="-webkit-transition: border-color 0.15s ease-out; border-bottom-color: rgb(220, 220, 220); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 0.0625rem; cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none !important; transition: border-color 0.15s ease-out;">according to The Hollywood Reporter</a>. The X-Men director will work with 20th Century Fox, which produces the long-running mutant superhero saga, on the project.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;">Heinlein’s 1966 Nebula award-winning book has been called one of the three or four most influential libertarian novels of the last century. It centres on a lunar colony with old west overtones which decides to fight for independence from Earth with the help of its protector, a newly-sentient supercomputer named Mike.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;">Hollywood has attempted to bring the story to the big screen twice before, most recently via Steven Spielberg’s DreamWorks, but to no avail. Singer will reportedly work from a screenplay by Green Lantern’s Marc Guggenheim on the new version.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;">Heinlein is known as one of the “big three” science-fiction writers of the 20th century, along with Arthur C Clarke and Isaac Asimov, but has suffered a chequered history on the big screen. The most notable adaptation was the 1997 space romp Starship Troopers, but director Paul Verhoeven chose to subvert the original novel’s patriotic-militaristic leanings by painting a future controlled by bug-hunting fascists. Heinlein, who died in 1988 at the age of 80, would not have been amused.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;">Singer is currently Hollywood hot property after his return to the X-Men franchise, last year’s Days of Future Past, scored an impressive $748m worldwide at the global box office and benefited from strong reviews.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;">He’s set to direct the follow-up, 2016’s X-Men: Apocalypse, which once again stars Jennifer Lawrence, Michael Fassbender and James McAvoy as mutants Mystique, Magneto and Professor X.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;">Source: <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/film/2015/mar/04/bryan-singer-robert-heinlein-the-moon-is-a-harsh-mistress?CMP=share_btn_fb" target="_blank">The Guardian</a></span></span></div>
Erg!http://www.blogger.com/profile/06792403578328645068noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2223827637874197433.post-40315655921672793022015-03-06T11:39:00.000-08:002015-03-06T11:39:38.636-08:00 Predestination Movie Screening<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Erg!http://www.blogger.com/profile/06792403578328645068noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2223827637874197433.post-61718094988406160192014-12-24T09:30:00.002-08:002014-12-24T09:30:47.748-08:00Russia's Angara 5 Successful Maiden Voyage!Congratulations to the Russian space industry <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica;">for the Angara 5 successful first flight. It holds great promise for future commercial space activities for the benefit of all humankind!</span><br />
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A new Russian rocket designed as a successor to the workhorse Proton booster lifted off Tuesday on a maiden test flight that could signify Russia’s shift away from launching satellites at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan.</div>
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The 180-foot-tall Angara 5 rocket ignited five kerosene-fueled RD-191 booster engines and lifted off from the Plesetsk Cosmodrome — a military-run spaceport 500 miles north of Moscow — at 0557 GMT (12:57 a.m. EST) Tuesday, according to the Russian Federal Space Agency. <span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; font-family: 'Open Sans', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-weight: bold; line-height: 16px;"><a href="http://spaceflightnow.com/2014/12/23/first-angara-5-rocket-blasts-off-from-russia/" target="_blank">(read full article)</a></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">Source: Spaceflight Now December 23, 2014 by Stephan Clark</span></span>Erg!http://www.blogger.com/profile/06792403578328645068noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2223827637874197433.post-59687596699860076072014-10-31T14:41:00.002-07:002014-10-31T14:41:41.444-07:00<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<br />Erg!http://www.blogger.com/profile/06792403578328645068noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2223827637874197433.post-50205664145555035352014-10-22T11:32:00.000-07:002014-10-22T11:37:55.627-07:00The Heinlein Book Club - Lesson Plan One Recently we've added and new page to the Heinlein Books site, <a href="http://www.heinleinbooks.com/#!bookclub/mainPage">The Heinlein Book Club</a>.<br />
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Basically the Heinlein Book Club is a one stop hub to access everything you need to start your own Heinlein book club or discussion group. The site will be updated regularly with access to the latest lesson plans and discussion questions based on Heinlein's work as found in the Virginia Edition. Each month the site will feature a different lesson plan which will link back here for further discussion. <br />
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It is our hope that the site will grow with suggestions from Robert Heinlein's ever-growing fan base and will become a valuable asset not only to fans but for teachers and librarians who could use this site as a means to introduce the world of Heinlein to a younger generation of readers.<br />
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<b>Lesson One - Space Cadet</b><br />
<i>An excerpt from the Space Cadet Lesson Plans as developed by Robert James, PhD.</i><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #f3f3f3;"><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">The following was taken from the introduction to Virginia Edition Volume No. 42. </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">The excerpt is from a letter Heinlein wrote to his editor after the book was published in 1964.</span></i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><br /></span></span><br />
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<i>The excerpt is from 1952 and it was for Edward R. Murrow's
radio show "This I Believe".</i><o:p></o:p></div>
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I believe in—I am proud to belong to—the United States.
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And finally, I believe in my whole race, yellow, white,
black, red, brown—in the honesty, courage, intelligence, durability ...and
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the skin of our teeth, that we will always make it just by
the skin of our teeth—but that we will always make it, survive...endure. I
believe that this hairless embryo with the aching, oversize braincase and the
opposable thumb, this animal barely up from the apes, will endure—will endure
longer than his home planet, will spread out to the other planets, to the
stars, and beyond, carrying with him his honesty, his unlimited courage—and his
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Congratulations to all the award winners and a big thanks to everyone who participated. Also a special shout out to our friends at the Heinlein Society for making our appearance at Freedom Fest a memorable experience!</div>
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The Citizen of the Galaxy blog is now on line. Visitors can now monitor the progress of the graphic novel and see the latest art concepts. Our Kick Start supporters can view their names in a special section of the blog. Viewers can also link back to the Virginia Edition blog site and also link to the Virginia Edition page. </div>
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Since the Kick Starter site has been live we've received several inquiries about the Virginia Edition which has resulted in at least one sale. Not a bad start!</div>
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<span style="color: #666666;"><span style="line-height: 27px;"><b>Citizen of the Galaxy </b>will be the first graphic novel adapted from Robert A. Heinlein's Virginia Edition which is the complete and definitive 46 volume collector's set of all of Heinlein's works. This project is approved by the copyright owner, the Heinlein Prize Trust and will be produced with the support of the Virginia Edition Publishing Company. The purpose of the Heinlein Prize is to encourage and reward progress in commercial space activities that advances Robert and his wife Virginia's dream of humanity's future in space. The Virginia Edition Publishing Company is responsible for the production and distribution of the authoritative text of all of Robert Heinlein's published fiction and non-fiction - The Robert A. Heinlein: Virginia Edition Collection.</span></span>Erg!http://www.blogger.com/profile/06792403578328645068noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2223827637874197433.post-83034925494110665592012-05-17T16:29:00.001-07:002012-05-17T16:29:06.136-07:00As it was in the beginning...To all Virginia Edition subscribers, prospectives, and general belligerents,
It gives me great pleasure to announce that the final volumes of the Virginia Edition have finished printing and arrived at the fulfillment center to be shipped to customers over the next week.
We will be making a formal announcement on May 25th at the National Space Society's 30th International Space Development Conference. For those that don't know, the National Space Society was formed from a merger of the National Space Institute and the L5 Society. Mr. Heinlein was director of the L5 society for a decade prior to the merger and so we are especially excited to be able to announce his complete works at ISDC.
That has been a long project--longer than we anticipated though I casually note that we are still ahead of the original project's completion date--and rather than belabor the point and bore us all to death, I will simply say my thank you's and be done.
Thank you to Bill Patterson and Robert James for helping with volume notes and correspondence. Thanks as well to Robert Gorsch, David Wright, Sr., Geo Rule, and Perry Chapedelaine for their help with the Heinlein-Campbell correspondence.
Thank you to Windhaven Press for their editorial and layout work in the face of remarkable hardship.
Thank you to the Robert A. and Virginia Heinlein Prize Trust for supporting this project and for vigorously supporting Robert and Virginia's vision of humanity's future in space.
And, of course, thank you to all of our subscribers who bore with us over the last several years with remarkably good grace. Your support and kind words have made this experience enormously more bearable than otherwise.
Never forget to pay it forward,
Simon JesterSimon Jesterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08262822736016993687noreply@blogger.com8Tranquil Ln, Harrow, Greater London HA2, UK51.5709269 -0.362962551.5684594 -0.367898 51.573394400000005 -0.35802700000000004tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2223827637874197433.post-66895901107540666412012-03-19T15:42:00.001-07:002012-03-19T15:42:59.024-07:00Last week I was working on the cover icons for 3 of these last five books.<br />
We did test stampings, and here is what they looked like.<br />
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This is the icon for Letters Volume 3, which looks kind of like Ginny, if she were of Asian descent and got punched in her left eye. Oh bad. I think this icon is based off of this photo:</div>
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These junks are for Tramp Royale. They look ok, but the black and white has way more detail that didn't show up due to the blurring/spreading effect stamping has. The original file was:<br />
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We reversed it upon suggestion from Transcontinental that it would be nice for the boats to be gold rather than leather, which also meant I needed to add the ring.<br />
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Here is Screen Writing 1 - the black and white has more detail but this looks good, too.</div>
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Screen Writing 2 was more tricky since some of the the detail did show up. So we tweaked it and are waiting to see what the changes look like.</div>
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And lovely Requiem which came out perfect.</div>
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This morning I received an email from Julie at Transcontinental letting me know that the three I had worked on were not different enough. So I worked on them for several hours this morning and sent them back to her and should hear back tomorrow morning.<br />
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This is the last stage of the getting everything printed so they can be bound and shipped. As far as I know the interiors are already printing. It is just dear Ginny's face that I still have reservations about. I hope it comes out pretty.<br />
<br />LemonPihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13259897366522433821noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2223827637874197433.post-16600350016891132472012-02-28T10:31:00.000-08:002012-02-28T10:31:54.329-08:00<span style="background-color: black; color: #9fc5e8;">Tuesday, February 28th, 2012...</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: black; color: #9fc5e8;">Today has been a slow morning while waiting for the last of the hard copy text proofs to be delivered.</span><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: #9fc5e8;">I received an automated call from FedEx telling me it would be here by 10:30 and to make sure someone would be here to sign for it, unless I completely spaced and they were telling me it would be here on Wednesday, but I am pretty sure the automated lady voice said Tuesday. Either way it is noon here in Houston and it still isn't here. There was one false alarm a couple of minutes ago, but it was just the regular mail, with a package that did not require a signature, and was not for me, but that our lovely mail deliverer always rings the bell when something will not fit in the box. </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: black; color: #9fc5e8;">Other than the above, we are quite close to beginning actual printing. Most of the other texts are in their final form and through Transcontinental's pre-press department, which shines them up even more than when Windhaven sent them in before hitting the presses. Specifically as follows:</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: black; color: #9fc5e8;">Letters 3 - good to go</span><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: #9fc5e8;">Tramp Royale - good to go (hard proof reviewed for surprise picture)</span><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: #9fc5e8;">Screenwriting 1 - this is the one I am waiting for</span><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: #9fc5e8;">Screenwriting 2 - good to go</span><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: #9fc5e8;">Requiem - good to go</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: black; color: #9fc5e8;">COVER</span><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: #9fc5e8;">Letters 3 - ready for hard proof (this one may cause trouble, I already redesigned it once)</span><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: #9fc5e8;">Tramp Royale - ready for hard proof (also may cause trouble, but not as much)</span><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: #9fc5e8;">Screenwritting 1 - ready for hard proof</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: black; color: #9fc5e8;">Screenwritting 2 - ready for hard proof</span><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: #9fc5e8;">Requiem - ready for hard proof</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: black; color: #9fc5e8;">Usually we do not do hard proofs and have stuck with soft proofs, but given the trouble with JWC's face in the last set (and RAH's as well, but which wasn't pointed out to me) and the time and money spent on redoing all the covers for L1 we are taking extra precautions with the stamping. Also there are more graphics and pictures in these last ones and some of them didn't measure up to Trans' standards and had to be altered (since we had to open them all up I also cleaned a lot of them up). </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: black; color: #9fc5e8;">AND NOW THE MAIN POINT OF THIS POST!!!!</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: black; color: #9fc5e8;">PROPHETS OF SCIENCE FICTION on DISCOVERY'S SCIENCE channel</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: black; color: #9fc5e8;">Executive Producer Ridley Scott presents<em style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;">Prophets of Science Fiction</em>.<br style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" /><br style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" />The "Science Fiction" of the past has now simply become "Science". And the science of the future was strangely prophesied by a group of visionaries whose dreams once may have deemed them renegades and "mad scientists," have become reality!</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: #9fc5e8;">TOMORROW IS ROBERT ANSON HEINLEIN!!!!</span><br />
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<br />LemonPihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13259897366522433821noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2223827637874197433.post-84924327820436352562012-02-03T14:57:00.000-08:002012-02-03T14:57:47.624-08:00It is February! <br />
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I know, I know, I skipped January, but only because I was hoping to have the best update I could give - that we were finished. It turned out we weren't so my procrastinating has slipped into the next month.<br />
However, I do have good news - we will be doing no more read-throughs of the books!<br />
In turn this means that all we have left to do is to review layout and previously submitted lists of edits.<br />
Depending on the speed with which Windhaven applies the last two lists (or so) of edits we have going, we should sign off on the text by close of business Monday. <br />
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These are some of the unique things included in this last set (which in a large part are also the reasons it has taken longer):<br />
The last volume of correspondence - which some of you may be anxiously awaiting - and is 648 pages long<br />
The two volumes of screenplays - which have never been printed in this arrangement before (there is a Subterranean Press edition that contains some of them) - totaling 1166 pages<br />
Tramp Royale - has been out of print since the mid 1990s and includes an awesome picture, which I am refusing to tell you about b/c it will ruin the surprise - @ 336 pages<br />
A updated version of Requiem - which includes new tributes - 384 pages<br />
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As you can see there is still a lot to read and some of it is probably brand new (unless you have been thoroughly trolling the archives).<br />
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On a side note - in first reading through The Rolling Stones and information about it, it was pointed out that Star Trek's "Trouble with Tribbles" episode gave a nod to Heinlein for using something very similar to Martian flatcats. Earlier this week in reading through one of the tributes in Requiem, someone remembered Heinlein saying that he didn't invent them either so it was ok from his perspective.<br />
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Does anyone know where RAH got the idea from? (I do have the recollected answer, but I want to know if anyone else knows.)LemonPihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13259897366522433821noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2223827637874197433.post-13608967397359288472011-12-08T14:49:00.001-08:002011-12-08T15:03:18.174-08:00<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #6aa84f;">2011 is almost finished and so is this lovely collection.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #6aa84f;">Today I sent in the last full round of edits for Letters 3</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #6aa84f;">AND</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #6aa84f;">I just got in the next round of Screen Writing 1, which puts our current standing at:</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #6aa84f;">Vol. 41 - (the elusive) Letters 3 - last set of edits have been sent in, need to be applied, and needs permission to print</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #6aa84f;">Vol. 43 - Tramp Royale - needs permission to print</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #6aa84f;">Vol. 44 - Screen Writing 1 - last read through, apply, quality control, apply, and needs permission to print</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #6aa84f;">Vol. 45 - Screen Writing 2 - send in last edits, which need to be applied, then quality control, apply, and permission to print</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #6aa84f;">Vol. 46 - Requiem - quality control, apply any edits, then needs permission to print</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #6aa84f;">Sean and I are splitting SP 1 (Screen Writing 1) and hope to have this round finished by COB on Monday. At which point, I hope we have Requiem and/or Letters 3. Close of business Tuesday should see us with 2 books ready to print (minus the official permission form), maybe 3. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #6aa84f;">The screenplays have been a hassle. Most of them have not been typeset before, which left a lot of room to design a readable book, but also a lot of open questions. We have tried to stay close to the patterns and formats, while adjusting text and layout to make them internally consistent. It meant a lot of word juggling for Andrew, who has been working pretty much solo in New Hampshire. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #6aa84f;">This overdue update written, I am going to get reading! </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #6aa84f;">Hope to write soon with more completions to report. </span>LemonPihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13259897366522433821noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2223827637874197433.post-3062688711528527312011-11-21T13:19:00.001-08:002011-11-21T13:27:25.477-08:00Status Update<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #f6b26b; font-size: large;">As you all may be aware from the shelf space the collection is already taking up we are coming to the end of this very long quite bumpy road. The last five volumes need to be read over or just have the last set of edits checked and will go to the printer soon. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #f6b26b; font-size: large;">We (Sean and myself) just got in the fully updated Screen Writing 2 and are diving in. I wanted to share a piece of it with you.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #f6b26b; font-size: large;">From Crater Base One - "Nothing Ever Happens--" </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #f6b26b; font-size: large;">The television has below it a more numerous </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #f6b26b; font-size: large;">group of controls than are found on a </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #f6b26b; font-size: large;">livingroom</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #f6b26b; font-size: large;"> set; this is intended to </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #f6b26b; font-size: large;">be a closed-circuit system whereby the Director can see, from his desk, any </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #f6b26b; font-size: large;">of many scenes inside and outside Crater Base One. A single power knob </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #f6b26b; font-size: large;">plus a long row of push buttons conspicuously numbered and/or lettered is </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #f6b26b; font-size: large;">sufficient to simulate this. It is assumed that a repeater with parallel controls </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #f6b26b; font-size: large;">is located in his private dining-living room, and another at his bedside; </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #f6b26b; font-size: large;">thus the Director can see, from the three places where he spends most of </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #f6b26b; font-size: large;">his time, every major activity he directs. Cutting in the video pickup also </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #f6b26b; font-size: large;">cuts in 2-way teletalk . . . and it may be assumed that the video is 2-way, </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #f6b26b; font-size: large;">also, for this is 1988. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #f6b26b; font-size: large;">As we all know, 1988 of course had two way t.v.'s. At least now we have touch screens and video chat on our phones and computers. Dear Mr. Heinlein, sorry we took so long.</span>LemonPihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13259897366522433821noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2223827637874197433.post-80538638682363222832011-09-29T14:49:00.000-07:002011-09-29T14:49:59.975-07:00Don't worry you aren't missing vol. 41<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #ffe599; font-size: large;">This edition of the blog is to reassure everyone that you are<b> not missing volume 41</b>.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #ffe599; font-size: large;">Volume 41 was not ready to go to print with the preceding 4, while volume 42 (Farnham's Freehold) was.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #ffe599; font-size: large;">It will be printed and shipped with the last set of books.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #ffe599; font-size: large;">You read correctly, the last set of books!</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #ffe599; font-size: large;">On our current schedule, updated this week, we should have all material turned over to the printer by mid to late October. This means the books should ship in November and be in your hands for the holidays.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #ffe599; font-size: large;">Volume 41 - Letters 3 is undergoing a quality control check, and will be turned back to WH for final corrections tomorrow.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #ffe599; font-size: large;">Volume 43 - Tramp Royale is at WH to have proofreading edits applied, then it will come here for a quality control check.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #ffe599; font-size: large;">Volume 44 - Screenplay 1 just got turned back to WH after its 2nd proofread and needs those edits applied. We are also working on getting some pictures from the set of Destination Moon to include in this volume.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #ffe599; font-size: large;">Volume 45 - Screenplay 2 was also just turned in to WH, but from its 1st proofreader, and will come here next.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #ffe599; font-size: large;">Volume 46 - Requiem is going out this week for its 1st proofread. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #ffe599; font-size: large;">On another note here is an interesting Heinlein mention:</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #ffe599;">BARACK OBAMA MUST BE A ROBERT HEINLEIN FAN! <a href="http://pajamasmedia.com/instapundit/126046/" style="font-weight: 600; text-decoration: none;">Robert Heinlein:</a></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #ffe599;">Throughout history, poverty is the normal condition of man. Advances which permit this norm to be exceeded — here and there, now and then — are the work of an extremely small minority, frequently despised, often condemned, and almost always opposed by all right-thinking people. Whenever this tiny minority is kept from creating, or (as sometimes happens) is driven out of a society, the people then slip back into abject poverty.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #ffe599;">This is known as “bad luck.”</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #ffe599;"><a href="http://campaign2012.washingtonexaminer.com/blogs/beltway-confidential/obama-i-reversed-recession-until-bad-luck-hit" style="font-weight: 600; text-decoration: none;">Barack Obama:</a></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #ffe599;">“We had reversed the recession, avoided a depression, gotten the economy moving again,” Obama told a crowd in Decorah, Iowa. “But over the last six months we’ve had a run of bad luck.”</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #ffe599;">Fan, instantiation, whatever.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #ffe599;">Posted by Glenn Reynolds at 10:00 pm</span></div>
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