Authors and astronomers at the Adler Planetarium Book Club

[mount_oregano]

On Saturday, December 1, from 1 to 3:30 p.m., three Chicago authors will be talking with astronomers at the Adler Planetarium about our inspiration from the stars. I’m one of the authors.

I’ll be discussing life on other planets and how huge the universe is with Mark SubbaRao, president-elect of the International Planetarium Society and director of Adler’s Space Visualization Program. Asteroid 170009 Subbarao is named after him for his work on the Sloan Digital Sky Survey.

Astronomer Mark Hammergren will talk with Michael Moreci, author of the science fiction novel Black Star Renegades. Astronomer Maria Weber will talk with Lori Rader-Day, author of the murder mystery Under a Dark Sky.

Admission to the book club talk is free with general admission, and if you’re an Illinois resident, you get free admission to the entire planetarium on Saturday with a valid Illinois ID as part of Illinois Resident Discount Day.

Books will be available for purchase, and we’ll be signing books and chatting with the audience after the talk. You can get full information about the event and books here.

Science informs fiction! Come find out how.

— Sue Burke

Comments

[captlychee]

How are you doing this crossposting? You're approaching some sort of ubiquity singularity, or perhaps the other way around, but I would be interested to knowhow you're doing it, as my attempts have been failing of late—well, most of the last couple of years.

Irrelevant to your post, I know, but…ah, there are no 'buts'.

[mount_oregano]

I crosspost manually. But I have discovered a secret. Here's what I do:

First, I create the post in LiveJournal. (I could use Dreamwidth just as well.)

Then, after I post it, I click "Edit" and in edit mode, I click "HTML" then I "select all" and copy it. After that, I click that I'm through editing and repost the original, careful not to change anything.

Second, in Dreamwidth, I go to Post, click on "HTML" and paste what I've copied. Voila! I get the exact same post, with pictures embedded in it the exact same way. I can also post at my Wordpress sites the same way, posting the HTML from the original LiveJournal post.

I hope that makes sense. It's a little fiddly, but not very. If I need to, I can paste the HTML in something like Notepad for temporary safekeeping.

Does that answer your question?

[captlychee]

Yep! Lucidly and informatively answered, thanks.

I've been posting manually, too, but a lot of places online are telling me I can simultaneously post to multiple journals using a client like Semagic, but I'm having trouble with that. So it' still manually for me.

Not that I've been posting much, so it isn't too onerous, but I like things to be efficient where possible. And I may increase posting in 2019—who knows?