WHAT'S NEW
Wayland's Principia, a hard science fiction novel about human-alien interaction, interstellar travel, and what it means to be human, is now available from Smashwords for all electronic formats. It's also available from Amazon for the Kindle only.
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My fantasy / alternate reality novel Exaltations is now available from Smashwords for all electronic reader formats and from Amazon for Kindle only.
Exaltations is a spiritual allegory of the importance of human life and love, the tyranny of quests, and the war for what the world is.
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Unknowable Death, a mystery about the nature of reality and of madness, introspection and the trauma of a young child, is available for Kindle readers.
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Two By Two Souls Fly, a pastoral fantasy romance about love, family, and acceptance, is available on Amazon for the Kindle.
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My blog is available directly on this site, replacing my old LiveJournal blog.
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ANIMATION AND GRAPHICS SOFTWARE
Richard Garfinkle and Achronal Press have released IgorAnimation for the iPad, a 3D computer animation and computer graphics, image creation, and photo editing program. Click here for IgorAnimation for the iPad on the Apple app site, or get more information and support at www.igoranimation.com.
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Read a humorous pulp-pastiche short short story at the website of the Chicago in 2012 WorldCon Bid. The bid has asked Chicago-area writers and artists for Chicago-themed pulp knockoffs, giving them a cast of character names and a request for a short short story, and seeing what they come up with.
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Serious publishing news: We have started our own imprint, Achronal Press, to publish some of Richard's more experimental stories. Two books are available:Wayland's Principia, a hard science fiction novel of space travel and alien thought, currently available as a Kindle eBook here, and Exaltations, an allegorical fantasy novel about love and the power of stories, currently available as a Kindle eBook here.
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Richard and his brother, gravitational physicist David Garfinkle, have written a physics book (see at left), Three Steps to the Universe: From the Sun to Black Holes to the Mystery of Dark Matter, published by the University of Chicago Press.
Three Steps to the Universe is an introduction to how scientist think by way of some interesting physics mysteries. It gives a good clear explanation of our current understanding of the sun, black holes, and dark matter, and how and why scientists work the way they do. The book also shows how to read science reporting and how to separate science from pseudoscience.
Three Steps to the Universe: From the Sun to Black Holes to the Mystery of Dark Matter is available from the University of Chicago Press.
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Webmistress Alessandra has cleaned up a few links on site so that, for example, the books published by BenBella can actually be found.
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