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Original caption: This narrow-angle color image of the Earth, dubbed ‘Pale Blue Dot’, is a part of the first ever ‘portrait’ of the solar system taken by Voyager 1. The spacecraft acquired a total of 60 frames for a mosaic of the solar system from a distance of more than 4 billion miles from Earth and about 32 degrees above the ecliptic. From Voyager's great distance Earth is a mere point of light, less than the size of a picture element even in the narrow-angle camera. Earth was a crescent only 0.12 pixel in size. Coincidentally, Earth lies right in the center of one of the scattered light rays resulting from taking the image so close to the sun. This blown-up image of the Earth was taken through three color filters – violet, blue and green – and recombined to produce the color image. The background features in the image are artifacts resulting from the magnification. NASA Public domain
I’ll close this series of posts on the music references in Food with a reference that is not to music: Carl Sagan’s Pale Blue Dot soliloquy.
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The crew of STS-45 is already training for its March 1992 mission, including stints on the KC-135 zero-gravity-simulating aircraft. Shown with an inflatable globe are, clockwise from the top, C. Michael Foale, mission specialist; Dirk Frimout, payload specialist; Brian Duffy, pilot; Charles R. (Rick) Chappell, backup payload specialist; Charles F. Bolden, mission commander; Byron K. Lichtenberg, payload specialist; and Kathryn D. Sullivan, payload commander. NASA/JSC Public domain
I was listening to I’ll Take You There, by the Staple Singers, and I had a vision of kids floating in zero gravity, laughing and bouncing around.
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Astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope report a powerful gamma‑ray burst from a massive star that exploded when the universe was only about 730 million years old.
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A closeup of the drive plume as Rocket Lab’s Electron rocket called “PREFIRE and Ice,” lifts off from Launch Complex 1 in Māhia, New Zealand at 3:15 p.m. NZST Wednesday, June 5, 2024. NASA/Rocket Lab public domain
Maybe my use of Sly and the Family Stone’s I Want To Take You Higher was a bit on the nose for a launch song.
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A picture of two toy trains: Thomas and James.
Kids love trains. There are no trains on Mars, but kids there love them all the more for this. Cas and Ori, the sisters in my books, are past this stage of childhood, but they remember.
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Picture of skin with goosebumps. Image has been altered to display the words "it's just a song". photographer: Ildar Sagdejev license: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/deed.en
Do you get frisson? More specifically, do some pieces of music make the hair on your neck stand up?
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The author in a different and wilder period of life. This is too embarrassing to describe further.
My oldest also likes Radiohead, though she would probably think Creep is basic.
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Flyer written by Kathleen Hanna in 1989.
My oldest went through a Riot Grrrl phase. That phrasing sounds dismissive. I don’t mean it that way at all.
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An illustration of a very ungainly spaceship taking off. Illustration by Luis Peres for Food: Generation Mars, Book Four
Excerpt:
“The Country Roads stood upright on the pad, engine bells down, nose up, like all rockets since the beginning of the rocket age...
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Victorian woman standing with cello public domain
Do you remember the first time we see the Discovery One in 2001? It eases slowly onto the screen, as a melancholy orchestral piece plays (Adagio from Gayane, by Aram Ilyich Khachaturian).
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Closeup of a Woody vehicle with surfboards on top. Image from Wikimedia Commons, by Damian Gadal. Licence: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/deed.en
“Music filled the Country Roads. It was what used to be called surf music, with echo-y jangling guitars and voices in harmony singing about cars and waves.”
-- from Food: Generation Mars, Book Four
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An image of an acoustic phin instrument. public domain
Many years ago, I went to Bolivia to help a friend with some field research. We stayed on a remote ranch in the Gran Chaco, an arid grassland in the southern part of the country.
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There are many musical references in my latest book. These are a challenge for an indie author. I have to stay within fair use boundaries: artists and titles and bare hints of lyrics only...
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An author types at on a laptop over a background of stars. Floating around him we see Mars and Earth and the Moon. Spiraling above that we see the cover of each book of the Generation Mars series culminating in a larger image of the cover of Food: Generation Mars, Book Four.
Food: Generation Mars, Book Four has landed!
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Small images of the covers of four Generation Mars books are in a column on the left. A larger image of the cover of the new Generation Mars book is on the right. The words "Available December 1st" appear below.
Coming Monday: the next installment of the Generation Mars saga.
Food: Generation Mars, Book Four.
When a misaligned AI makes Earth unreachable, families on the Moon must make a hard choice...
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The cover of the next Generation Mars book, showing a spaceship against a green and orange background. The words "Coming December 1st, 2025" and "Food: Generation Mars, Book Four" are superimposed.
Holy smokes, guys! This thing comes out in a week! 😬
The Kindle preorder is up right now! 😮
Time's getting away from me. 😕
But I am excited! 😆
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Two middle grade stories that I'm querying
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The cover of the next Generation Mars book, showing a spaceship against a green and orange background. The words "Coming December 1st, 2025" and "Food: Generation Mars, Book Four" are superimposed.
Cover reveal and release date announcement for the next Generation Mars book!
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An 11-year-old boy and his robot dog take on aliens, secret missions, and the meaning of friendship in this action-packed sci-fi adventure for young readers. #BookReview #MiddleGradeSciFi #IndieAuthors #AmReading #ReaderViews buff.ly/kbFWLoI
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An image of the pages of a book. A great number are dog-eared.
Proofreading my next book. Oof!
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Thanks for reading! If you've been enjoying this teaser, please share the table of contents link widely.
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A SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket, carrying NASA’s Psyche spacecraft, blasts off from Kennedy Space Center’s Launch Complex 39A in Florida at 10:19 a.m. EDT on Friday, Oct. 13, 2023. The words "Chapter 17, Book Four Teaser, Available September 27th, 2025" overlay. credit: NASA/Kevin Davis & Kevin O'Conner copyright: Public domain
The exciting final chapter of Part One, and the conclusion of my teaser for Food: Generation Mars, Book Four, comes out Saturday, 9/27.
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Chapter 16 is up! This is the penultimate chapter of my teaser for Food: Generation Mars, Book Four, coming soon.
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Chapter 15 of my teaser for Generation Mars, Book Four, is up! Define "right"
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Chapter 14 of my teaser for Generation Mars, Book Four, is up! Boy meets girl
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Chapter 13 of my teaser for Book Four, is up! A new possibility emerges.
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Chapter 12 of my Book Four Teaser is up! Nefarious activity in the night
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Chapter 11 of the Book Four Teaser is up! Fatherly advice?
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Chapter 10 of my teaser for Food: Generation Mars, Book Four is up! This one gets a little heavy.
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