Special Local Space Events:

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LepreCon39

Further Information when available.

See http://www.leprecon.org/

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TELEPRECENSE REMOTE CONTROL RACES

(Still on going planning for Races.)

The Moon Society Phoenix is still working on the Teleprecense Remote Control races.

Check this blog for details as they develop.

We are still discussing set-ups, rules, equipment and sponsorship rules at this time and it appears that the races wont occur until sometime in the late winter or early spring.

All races will be open to all comers, however, judging maybe bases on age and type (cost) of RV Car. If you prefer to buy your own car and practice for the races, then you will need a three (3) channel RC Car that can be purchased at Walmart, Target or another store. You will need a minature TV camera, a transmitter, a receiver and a device to display the picture from the Car so that you can practice driving the Car by use of the TV System only.

In the talking stages are basic racing, advanced races, and the Lunar Challenge, race heats may be run against the clock and/or one on one or more.

If you have comments and suggestions please make your comments to this blog or send them to me at portercd@msn.com Subject RC Racing.

Demonstrations of the Race Cars will be available at CopperCon32 at the Moon Society Outreach Table.

Craig

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Monday, December 3, 2007

Charles Lee Lesher's Book "EVOLUTION'S CHILD" Wins Award

Congratulations, Chuck

Hi EveryoneSomething exciting happened to me on Saturday morning. I was notified by email that Evolution's Child had garnered Best of the Moon Fiction of 2007 from the Lunar Library -
Out of the Cradle, a web site devoted to all things lunar, fact and fiction. In the link below, you must scroll down almost to the bottom for the fiction section.
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Award Excerpt:...All of the books were fun reads as part of the Lunar Library Moon Fiction review project.
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“Moon Quake” is published as part of Apogee Books ‘Science Faction’ series of books, and would be considered the hardest science of the works, in the tradition of Arthur C. Clarke. “Moon Blog” is rather contemporary, but then so is “Evolution’s Child”. Ultimately, I’d have to say that “Evolution’s Child” is the most fully developed from a number of perspectives, from philosophical to a not unbelievable future technological society. So while it can be considered controversial, it is at least an explored and reasoned controversy, not a reactionary one. “Evolution’s Child” is the Best of the Moon Fiction of 2007.
Its not a Hugo or Nebula award but its better than a kick in the head! Here is a link to the review posted Oct 6 on the Lunar Library:
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http://www.blogger.com/
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Review Excerpt:Lazarus Sheffield is a man on the edge. A high level analyst in the Department of Homeland Security, he's finally had enough and decides to bolt to the Moon, a place of freedom in his mind. The year is 2092......This is a complex book. It takes a very strong position, and one that does not look kindly on fundamentalism... this may throw off some readers. If you don't like your theology being questioned... then this book is not for you. For more tolerant folk, this is quite a story that keeps building and building to the climax... I'll give this one a waning Full Moon.
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Go through the list of reviews and look at how many Full Moons are given out. Not many!
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Thanks Everyone!!!Chuck
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