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Comment on Percival’s Planet by Percival’s Planet by Michael Byers – Book Talk by Julia « BlogaBook

Mon, 13 Jun 2011 13:49:30 +0000

[...] Michael Byer’s website is http://michaelbyers.org/books/percivals-planet [...]

Comment on Hollis Hempstead (1900-?) by Fiction Writers Review » Blog Archive » Stalking the Inner Celestial: An Interview with Michael Byers

Tue, 17 May 2011 20:26:57 +0000

[...] dictated by the storylines they had become involved in. I had a number of different endings for Hollis Hempstead, for example, all of which were dramatically exaggerated and spectacular, but none of which made [...]

Comment on Long for This World by Fiction Writers Review » Blog Archive » Stalking the Inner Celestial: An Interview with Michael Byers

Tue, 17 May 2011 20:26:38 +0000

[...] In his 1999 short story collection, The Coast of Good Intentions, and his two novels, 2003’s Long for This World and the recently released Percival’s Planet, Byers eschews literal detonations for the precise [...]

Comment on Long for This World by Cosmic Log: Pluto in fact and fiction | Tolly Blog

Cosmic Log: Pluto in fact and fiction | Tolly Blog — Wed, 18 Aug 2010 07:39:37 +0000

[...] “I couldn’t quite find the interest in the material that I felt was needed,” Byers told me, “so I actually put the whole project down.” Instead, he wrote a novel about something else entirely, titled “Long for This World.” [...]

Comment on Percival’s Planet by The originals of Alan and Mary. « Finding Pluto

The originals of Alan and Mary. « Finding Pluto — Wed, 11 Aug 2010 02:42:46 +0000

[...] plutovian under Alan Barber, Mary Barber, unreal persons Leave a Comment In the course of Percival’s Planet, Clyde Tombaugh interacts with a guy called Alan Barber — an astronomer at Lowell — [...]

Comment on About the author by Fiction Writers Review » Blog Archive » Percival’s Planet Launches Today

Wed, 04 Aug 2010 01:43:09 +0000

[...] Byers is the author of two previous books, both of which were New York Times Notable Books: The Coast of Good Intentions (a story collection) and Long For This World (a novel). To read more on the background of this book, to find links to Michael’s essays and stories, or to check his tour schedule, visit his website. [...]

Comment on How to make a good telescope by How to make your own telescope, in 45,350 easy steps. « Finding Pluto

How to make your own telescope, in 45,350 easy steps. « Finding Pluto — Wed, 21 Jul 2010 22:53:02 +0000

[...] July 21, 2010 How to make your own telescope, in 45,350 easy steps. Posted by plutovian under Clyde Tombaugh, persons Leave a Comment It’s hard to believe, but Clyde Tombaugh really did make his own telescope essentially from scratch. In an effort to try to understand how this was actually done, I hunted down old reference guides that would make the process plain. These images are from 1001 Celestial Wonders, published in 1931. For a complete account of the step-by-step procedure, and for a description of the materials Clyde might have made use of, go here. [...]

Comment on Flounders and Tigers by The loveliness of the Lab Lit List. « Finding Pluto

The loveliness of the Lab Lit List. « Finding Pluto — Tue, 11 May 2010 00:54:05 +0000

[...] knew I wanted to write about that sort of work, and though it took me a while to figure out how much it meant to me exactly, the impressive daily endeavor that science is, in full, has always struck me as one of the great [...]

Comment on Long for This World by The loveliness of Lab Lit. « Finding Pluto

The loveliness of Lab Lit. « Finding Pluto — Tue, 11 May 2010 00:52:40 +0000

[...] entirely. My father, Peter Byers, is a medical geneticist at the University of Washington; my first novel takes place (in large measure) in a genetics laboratory. In high school I worked occasional [...]

Comment on Percival’s Planet by The smoldering gun. « Finding Pluto

The smoldering gun. « Finding Pluto — Sun, 02 May 2010 01:53:44 +0000

[...] least, so goes another reading of the facts. [...]