Read Ebook {PDF EPUB} Getting Near the End by Andrew Weiner Life and death in the Universe. In memory of Sonia Piotelat 2002-2020. She was a real SETI supporter. Friday, April 23, 2021. How do you live in a landscape so vastly changed? I was living on a planet called Earth. There was oxygen, water, forests, flowers, insects, birds, life. With Sonia we loved this planet, we wanted to protect it. Sonia went to some "Fridays for future" climate strikes in Paris. When she died, life on Earth disappeared. I went Over the Moon. A princess named Chang'E invited me in the room for exquisite sadness. I loved this place. I could cry, I could be sad, I could grieve. The Moon is also the place for dreams. Sonia appeared from time to time. I remember when we were on Earth looking at the changing position of the Moon, waiting for the planet to appear. We felt part of a great mechanic, part of the universe, on a planet moving around the Sun, with the Moon turning around it. When her cousins were here, we use to dance. I was the sun. Sonia was turning around me. Her cousin was the Moon turning around Sonia. Each stone is an heritage from Sonia. I collected them. I wonder if I should make some change, remove some dust or not. I spent my day exploring each pattern, each sign of life Sonia had left behind. It was part of her history, part of my history. Drawing by Sonia Piotelat. 2017. Some stones made me laugh. Some stones seems of aliens origin. I didn't understand. I had to learn. Who are the Avatar? Katara? Korra? Viren? Yes, Sonia spoke about these favorite cartoons, about her fan fictions. But for me, it was important to stay in a different world. I discovered a new landscape with dragons, with conflict and children looking for peace. Then I understood some reactions Sonia had few weeks ago. She was trying to unite some children whose parents did some nasty cruel things. That was clever! So I went back to the Moon in the room for exquisite sadness and found some notes, some books, some sheets with scholar works done by Sonia. Chang'E spoke about magpie, I decided to change Sonia's paper into cranes I would send to Hiroshima children's memorial on Earth. I won't return to Earth. I'll stay on the Moon. But if intelligent life appear one day, if an Alien spaceship arrives on Earth, he will find peace looking at Hiroshima's cranes. Robert J. Sawyer Books. Robert J. Sawyer Books is the science-fiction imprint of Red Deer Press. Established in 1975 and now a division of Fitzhenry & Whiteside, Red Deer Press is one of Canada's leading publishing houses. The books in this line of literate, cutting-edge, philosophically rich science-fiction titles are personally selected by the man the Ottawa Citizen calls "the dean of Canadian Science Fiction" and the Rocky Mountain News calls "just about the best science-fiction writer out there," Hugo and Nebula Award-winning bestselling author Rob Sawyer. Writers whose submissions Rob selects work directly with him on their manuscripts, and Rob writes an introduction for each book. Robert J. Sawyer Books is strictly a science-fiction imprint: it does not publish fantasy, horror, magic realism, or anything else. It is a line of adult books : we are not interested in children's or young-adult fiction. Because some of our funding comes from Canadian federal and provincial government agencies, as of 2009, we exclusively publishing titles by Canadian authors — no exceptions. We do just two or three books a year (mostly novels, but we are open to single-author short-story collections by established novelists). Most of our books are published as trade (large-format) paperbacks, although we also do some hardcovers. We are looking for commercially viable titles, and we will be distributing our books across North America via Fitzhenry & Whiteside. Our maximum length is 100,000 words — no exceptions. Science-fiction publishing in the U.S. has been in a slump for over a decade, and lots of good books that might have found homes with the major New York SF imprints (Ace, Aspect, Baen, DAW, Del Rey, Eos, Roc, Spectra, and Tor) in more prosperous days have been going unpublished. If your book might have made it in New York in greener times, give us a try. Note that we only publish original self-contained, stand-alone books: don't send us the first volume of your prospective trilogy, because we'll never have enough slots to publish the subsequent books, and no other publisher is going to pick up a series started by somebody else. Also note that we're not currently interested in reprints. Some authors we like: James Alan Gardner, Nancy Kress, Jack McDevitt, Mike Resnick, Connie Willis, Robert Charles Wilson, and, of course, Robert J. Sawyer. If your work is like theirs, with the same deft mixture of science and fiction, we're interested in seeing a query from you. (If you don't know the work of these authors, or if the list of SF imprints given above didn't mean anything to you, then we're probably not going to be a good match for each other; try your luck somewhere else.) If your book is built on a foundation of accurate, cleverly extrapolated science and believable, subtle, sophisticated characterization, it might be for us. We want real people in our stories, not cardboard heroes and villains. We firmly believe that SF is the literature of ideas — and we love the sense of wonder that good science fiction invokes. Most of all, your book must be about something. If your first impulse in describing your novel is to make a thematic statement, we're interested; if, on the other hand, your first impulse is to give a plot synopsis, we're probably not the right place for you. We are open to stylistic experimentation and adult content, so long as they help, rather than hinder, the story. Plain, straightforward prose is fine with us; so is beautiful, lyrical writing. Humor and satire are welcome. Our advances are decent by the standards of small presses, but we can't compete up front with the big New York houses (although our royalty rates match theirs, of course). We cannot commission novels; you must have a completed manuscript, ready to go into editing. We welcome agented submissions, and are happy to deal with agents during contract negotiations. To give you a taste of what we're looking for, these were our first two books: No unsolicited manuscripts; currently closed to queries and submissions. More Good Reading. The Commons cover art wins Chesley Award Great review for The Commons RJS Books title nominated for John W. Campbell Memorial Award! Publicity doesn't just happen: An RJS Books case study New Publisher for Red Deer Press starting September, 2007. Anthony Weiner talks up live web chat for his post-prison business. Upstate GOP pol mulling gov run likens Cuomo scandal to Anthony Weiner’s. Anthony Weiner pops up again, urging people to vote. NY’s finest kinky duo: What Toobin, Weiner shared in front of camera. Anthony Weiner admits his political aspirations have shriveled. It could be a hard sell. Clueless ex-Congressman Anthony Weiner — whose online and sexting scandals destroyed his political career and landed him in prison — is now promoting his company’s ability to live-chat with customers. The convicted serial sexter resurfaced earlier this year as the CEO of IceStone, a manufacturing firm in the Brooklyn Navy Yard that designs tabletops from broken glass. “Suddenly we all were at home way more than usual,” Weiner wrote to customers in an email Friday. “So IceStone rolled out a brand new website that allows homeowners and countertop professionals to find everything they need to find the colors, the specifications, and the online support they require to visualize what they need. “We have even added an ability to chat with a member of our team,” the dopey ex-Democratic pol said. The firm’s website allows customers or viewers to click on “Live Chat” or “Get a Call.” Weiner told The Post he was being all business when promoting the web chats — not cheeky or naughty. “We added a capability to connect with a salesperson,” he said. Once a rising star in politics, Weiner’s career imploded in 2011 after he was busted sending explicit photos to a woman over his public Twitter account, forcing his resignation from Congress. An image rehabilitation and potential comeback with a mayoral run in 2013 was scuttled after more sexting allegations emerged. see also. Anthony Weiner piecing together shattered life as CEO of broken glass factory. In 2017, Weiner pleaded guilty to federal obscenity charges after he was busted again, this time for sending lewd images to a 15-year-old girl in North Carolina. The former pol has said he now has no plans for a political comeback and is enjoying new life as a factory executive. He wrote in his email to customers, “We are getting into the retrospective season. Before we slam the door on this crazy and difficult year, I want to give you a quick summary of the changes over here at IceStone. “If you have had more on your mind than your favorite Cradle-to-Cradle certified, US manufactured recycled glass and cement countertop company, then you probably missed some big doings at IceStone.” He continued, “This was the first full year of our new process that produces virtually carefree surfaces.