Find the Comet!

[ase]

loupnoir asked, so here's my extremely amateur Comet Holmes pics. Thumbnails (those are thumbnails, not black placeholders) lead to 1024x768 versions. There's a Sky and Telescope article that might help orient you, if you remember your constellations. Markups in the gallery, unless someone wants to teach me the rollover trick. Bonus zoom-in view also in the gallery.



My library system calls with a recorded message when your holds come in. In a perfect demonstration of Murphy's law, two of my holds came in yesterday and today, and the third is in transit. If I wait a day or two, I will have to choose between the new Walton, the new Novik, and an old Neil Stephenson (The Diamond Age) to read first. This is the sort of "problem" I can't get too upset over.

Comments

[limnrix.livejournal.com]

The Diamond Age is one of the best books ever. Read it first even though it's long. It will go fast.

[weyrlady.livejournal.com]

I'll second that. I've read... every Neal Stephonson novel ever, and I still love Diamond Age best. Snow Crash is a close second, though.

[ase.livejournal.com]

I love Cryptonomicon the most. It will forever be associated with my last semester of college, and that's a good thing. I'm doomed to read everything else at some point too.

[guitaromantic.livejournal.com]

Second that.

Probably my 2nd favorite Stephenson. Some of the others read better, but don't come out better in the end.

[ase.livejournal.com]

If Diamond Age is your second favorite, which is your favorite?

[guitaromantic.livejournal.com]

Snow Crash. For sentimental reasons involving the world-building and action of the first scene.

[ase.livejournal.com]

I stalled in the first 50 pages the first time I tried it, but now that I understand Stephenson's writing geek comedies, it may go better.