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Remembering Robert Heinlein
I posted this article on both the Heinlein Prize Trust and the Heinlein Society websites. Robert Heinlein was one of the major influences on my life. All the activities listed below, I am in some way involved in. May 8, … Continue reading
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Succeeding Through Paying It Forward
An article I wrote for the Heinlein Society website: The Heinleins’ Adopted Granddaughter Invents Medical Product by Deb Houdek Rule “When your hero adopts you at age 12, there’s little that seems out of reach.” —Amy Baxter, M.D. Amy Baxter, … Continue reading
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Heinlein Publishing History is Made
Heinlein publishing history was made on March 26, 2013 when the Kickstarter project to fund a graphic novel version of Robert A. Heinlein’s Citizen of the Galaxy achieved its funding goal! With several days yet before the funding date of … Continue reading
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Heinlein Citizen of the Galaxy Graphic Novel
Citizen of the Galaxy will be the first graphic novel adapted from Robert 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 … Continue reading
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New Publication from Variations on a Theme
Variations on a Theme Press Release March13,2013 in PDF Variations on a Theme publishing announces the release of THE BLACK HOLE PROJECT by G. David Nordley and C. Sanford Lowe in print and ebook. The Black Hole Project is … Continue reading
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Tales of Television: Vanished Into Electrons
So what is it I’ve done in this past 30+ years? In the final analysis, I’ve arranged electrons into interesting patterns, flung them into the ether, and seen them vanish. Continue reading
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Hobbit: The Musical
Peter Jackson’s new movie, The Hobbit, certainly delivers value for your ticket price. The three hours you spend at the movie will feel like eight or nine! True value. The film is a brilliant example of the film editing concept … Continue reading
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Christmas Lights Denial
The Stages of Christmas Lights Denial: I’m just not going to do lights this year. It’s too much work and I don’t have time. Christmas, bah! Waste of effort. Anyhow, no one cares about my Christmas lights. Sure I’ve enjoyed … Continue reading
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Future History is Made Today!
11-11-12: It’s Lazarus Long’s 100th Birthday ! Happy 100th Birthday Woodrow Wilson Smith, aka Lazarus Long; Ernest Gibbons; Captain Aaron Sheffield; “Happy” Daze; His Serenity Seraphin the Younger, Supreme High Priest of the One God in All His Aspects and … Continue reading
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My Virginia Edition Arrived!
My Virginia Edition of the Complete Works of Robert A. Heinlein arrived and has a new home on shelves in my office! My goodness… with as many things having to do with Heinlein and his legacy I’ve been involved in … Continue reading
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Father’s Day Memories
I wrote this for a booklet for my father’s funeral in March of 2008… My father, Calvin George Houdek, was born June 11, 1927 in Pine City, Minnesota, the only son, and only child, of George Houdek and Clara … Continue reading
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Season of Marvels: Viking Tales
It’s Vikings past, present, and future! Available on Amazon Kindle Season of Marvels: Viking Tales joins my novel, Of All the Western Stars, and science fiction story collection, Stars That Sing the Requiem, on Amazon Kindle, all published by Variations … Continue reading
Stars That Sing the Requiem
Stars That Sing the Requiem, a science fiction short story collection, joins my novel, Of All the Western Stars, on Amazon Kindle, published by Variations on a Theme publishing. Four of the six stories in Stars That Sing the Requiem … Continue reading
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The Hunger Games
Originality of concept often isn’t as important as the freshness and the vitality of the approach. As the Harry Potter series breathed a vibrant new life into some very old fantasy concepts, The Hunger Games gives a hint of that vitality to the post-apocalyptic survival scenario, at least in the first book. Continue reading
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Prophets of Science Fiction
Most of you who read here probably know I’m heavily involved in the world of Heinlein. I am on the Board of Directors of the Heinlein Society, and spend quite a bit of time and efforts advancing our goal to … Continue reading
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Romance Guest Author
Today I’m guest blogger on romance writer Bernadette Marie’s website talking about how I came to be interested in Tudor history, and how it led to the writing of my historical time travel romance novel Of All the Western Stars. … Continue reading
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Warrior Princess Romance Writer
I am delighted to be the guest author this week on romance writer Bernadette Marie’s website. On Warrior Princess Romance Writer blog site, I am the featured interviewee today, will have a guest blog on Thursday, and will be giving … Continue reading
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Of All the Western Stars
My historical-time travel-science fiction romance novel, Of All the Western Stars, is now available on Kindle from Amazon.com published by Variations on a Theme publishing. You don’t need a Kindle to read Kindle books. Just select to purchase the novel, … Continue reading
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Tudorland
I’m pleased to announce the launch of a new website, Tudorland. Tudorland explores an area I’ve long been interested in, which is the history of the Tudor and era in England. Since I was only eleven-years-old and saw the movie … Continue reading
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Emeralds, Diamonds and Amethysts
It’s with a great deal of pleasure I direct your attention to an upcoming book by friend, and college roommate, Mary Matthews. Emeralds, Diamonds and Amethysts is the sequel to Splendid Summer, a novel of the Roaring Twenties set in … Continue reading
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Boat Day: With Spiders
We’re in the last waning days of summer. I just moved to sit outside on the deck, to enjoy the summer sun, but it’s sixty-seven degrees right now, and feeling very much like autumn. The aspen tree has already lost … Continue reading
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Remember Flight 93
In the midst of the remembrances and reflections on the tenth anniversary of 9-11, I will remember and honor the brave people of Flight 93. That flight, aimed for our nation’s capital, was crashed into a field in Shanksville, Pennsylvania. … Continue reading
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Splendid Summer Honors Tasha
Mary Matthews, the author of Splendid Summer, available on Kindle from Amazon.com, is honoring the memory of our dearly beloved Tasha with a donation to PAWS of Coronado. The $1000 donation was the award for having one of the best … Continue reading
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Remodeling the Website
I’ve been working the last few days on another major website remodel. This gets rather technical, so bear with me. When I did the redesign I’ll call the “misty blue lake” design, I built using ASP.NET, a programming language based … Continue reading
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Tasha
We lost our dear Tasha last night, age 16. She was our baby from the time we were first married. Abandoned at four-weeks-old, weighing only one pound, and deaf, it was we who were the luckiest people on earth to … Continue reading
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Splendid Summer
Splendid Summer is a new website by an old friend, my college roommate Mary Matthews. She has a new book out, “Splendid Summer,” available on Kindle at Amazon.com. It’s a mystery tale set in 1920′s San Diego. I helped Mary … Continue reading
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Krystal Loves the Kitty Half-Time Show
The dog portion of Puppy Bowl VII on Animal Planet held no interest for her, but Krystal was enthralled by the Kitty Half-Time Bowl. Geo commented she probably thinks it’s the best way to have kittens in the house–on the … Continue reading
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Minnesota Winter Driving Rules
As I told to Husband his first winter here: 1. Green light does not mean ‘go’, it means check to see if the other direction can stop. The car sliding sideways through the intersection on a red has the right-of-way. … Continue reading
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The Long Winter
Laura Ingalls Wilder and The Long Winter When I lived out west for ten years or so, and it never snowed and summers were brown and winters were rainy, the book I most read and reread when I was homesick … Continue reading
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I Know a Place…
I know a place where there is no smog and no parking problem… and no television commercials… So begins Robert Heinlein’s novel Glory Road. It’s a happy place the hero finds, with lovely land and friendly people. And quiet. We … Continue reading→