My book, Death from the Skies!, is of course the best book you’ll ever read in any genre of all time. That goes without saying (at least, in my mind it does). So of course I want to see it selling as widely as possible…
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But somehow, seeing a book about the ways the Universe can destroy the Earth coupled with a logo like this one, well, it’s more disturbing to me than maybe it should be.
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The original BA site (with the Moon Hoax debunking, movie reviews, and all that) can be found here.
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September 14th, 2009 at 2:11 pm
And you can get it gift wrapped.
September 14th, 2009 at 2:17 pm
Perhaps with so many Target stores around, the asteroids’ targeting systems will become confused by all the bulls-eyes and bypass the planet altogether.
September 14th, 2009 at 2:22 pm
You wrote a book?
P.S. It’s Monday, so I’m a bit slow on the draw in pulling that gag!
September 14th, 2009 at 2:22 pm
You wrote a book?
Edit: Darn! Ivan just barely beat me to it!
September 14th, 2009 at 2:25 pm
Are you sure? I heard about this other book, Bad Astronomy, that’s supposed to be pretty decent, itself. But it is by a rather obscure author.
September 14th, 2009 at 2:27 pm
I got it the other day. Buggered up my back so, at least, now I have time to read it. So far it’s a real cool read, GJ Dr. Phil.
September 14th, 2009 at 2:38 pm
I Loled.
September 14th, 2009 at 2:41 pm
I guess the next world-destroying GRB will be on-Target, eh?
September 14th, 2009 at 2:43 pm
Can I get one with a reprinted autograph?
September 14th, 2009 at 2:47 pm
I read the Kindle version just this week. I think you are missing a bet in your promotions. Clearly you win the prize for the book with the Greatest Dynamic Range ever. I think it was 10 **-41 seconds to 10**1000 years, something like that. Makes you want to use the word logarithm!
Which reminds me: the Kindle edition eliminates the minus sign from exponents, so 10**-41 comes out 10**41. Oh well, what’s 80+ orders of magnitude in the bigger scheme of things?
September 14th, 2009 at 2:49 pm
Is it called Death from the Skies because Death from Above was taken?
September 14th, 2009 at 2:50 pm
@ Todd W. (#4),
As they say at the (horse) race track, you got beaten by a nose!
September 14th, 2009 at 3:10 pm
Aha! In the sidebar:
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So that’s how you got it published! unh-huh!
September 14th, 2009 at 4:09 pm
I’m halfway through it right now and having a blast (no pun intended). Great work!
September 14th, 2009 at 4:48 pm
I’m finally reading Death, Phil. I’m on page 209 (You know, the page with all the words on it?
). Outside of wishing the wanton destruction parts were longer, it’s a satisfying read so far.
September 14th, 2009 at 5:46 pm
These posts are all fine and good, but what we all really want to know is — DID YOU GET A TATTOO TODAY??? Did it hurt?
September 14th, 2009 at 6:00 pm
I’m sure “Death from the Skies” will in future find it’s way into the halls of the classics and be found among other titles like “A Brief History of Time”, “Dante’s Inferno”, “The Book of Revelation” and let’s not forget “The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy”.
September 14th, 2009 at 6:54 pm
I thought the target logo was the tatt?
September 14th, 2009 at 9:09 pm
Already have the book, but I’ll be looking for it the next time I shop there. Awesome
Good to hear it’s on time for the holiday season.
September 14th, 2009 at 11:23 pm
You basically said your book was better than Randi’s books. And you work for his organization! Also Neil deGrasse Tyson beat you on the whole “death from the universe” book. Your stuff is great, but it’s not original or better than Randi.
September 15th, 2009 at 12:03 am
Hmm, the logo for this blog (i.e. the little icon that appears next to the link on my bookmarks toolbar) looks an awful lot like the Target logo, just in orange instead of red.
Speaking of circular and extraterrestrial things, has everybody seen the Google doodle for today? Click it and prepare for much amusement at the links you follow.
But at least the Skeptic’s Dictionary shows up on the first page! And the Wikipedia article at least does a halfway decent job of presenting the skeptical position (then lets some woo claims go uncontradicted in the interests of “neutrality” of course!)
September 15th, 2009 at 12:28 am
Listening to you on tv while twittering. Maybe paranoia is just random skeptacism.
September 15th, 2009 at 5:52 am
I’m in the middle of Death right now. I actually reached the section on GRBs the same day you posted the spectra from Eta Carinae, which I considered terribly cool.
Well done.
September 15th, 2009 at 3:31 pm
Do you feel like your book might be in the right place at the wrong time?
September 15th, 2009 at 3:32 pm
I’m just glad that they don’t sell military uniforms.
September 15th, 2009 at 7:10 pm
Just got my confirmation from Amazon last night that my copy of DftS! is on its way to my humble abode in the Antipodes! I’m soooo excited – really looking forward to reading it on the train to and from work
September 15th, 2009 at 10:44 pm
While on the way home from AZ, we stopped in a little town called Weatherford in OK. One of the Apollo astronauts is from there and they have a very nice space museum named after him. They have a resource center which consists of two very small book cases. On one of them was a very interesting book called Death from the Skies…ever heard of it?