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In case you were wondering if anyone brought their towel to work today, the answer is: YES.
Opening in Summer 2013 at 123 Newark Avenue! Thanks for the early love, JC.
JC tumblr has arrived!
A round-up in honor of Towel Day, courtesy of our staff and you froody internet people:
- Astronaut Academy: Re-Entry, Dave Roman
- Packing for Mars, Mary Roach
- The Martian Chronicles, Ray Bradbury
- Selected Stories of Philip K. Dick
- Zita the Spacegirl, Ben Hatke
- Brightness Falls from the Air, James Tiptree Jr.
- The Human Division, John Scalzi
- Cordelia’s Honor, Lois McMaster Bujold
- Sorry Please Thank You, Charles Yu
- Year Zero, Rob Reid
- Hyperion, Dan Simmons
- The Left Hand of Darkness, Ursula K. LeGuin
- Eon, Greg Bear
- The Summer Queen, Joan D. Vinge
- 57thstreetbooks: A Princess of Mars and Brian K Vaughan’s Saga
- bestreadamerican: Fiasco, Stanisław Lem
- writersflow: 172 Hours on the Moon, Johan Harstad
- sahoward: Citizen of the Galaxy, Robert Heinlein
- jaimealyse: The Sparrow, Mary Doria Russell
- bookoisseur: Ender’s Game, Orson Scott Card
- rachelfershleiser: This Place Has No Atmosphere, Paula Danziger
- @ConstellationBo: Sharon Lee and Steve Miller; Jack McDevitt; John Scalzi
- @JessVerdi: Glow, @AmyKathleenRyan
Towels are surprisingly hard to draw. (Or at least, to draw well.)
(Aside from H2G2, of course.)
- Emily: Lydia Davis just won the International Booker, right?
- Molly: Yes. Or at least, she got some kind of Booker.
- Jenn: There's more than one kind of Booker?
The afternoon shift is also sometimes known as the IT IS TIME FOR TREATS shift.
e-Staff Picks: The Water Castle, Megan Frazer Blakemore
Jenny says: “A middle grade novel with elements of mystery, fantasy, and sci-fi, The Water Castle has it all: the fountain of youth, fitting in at a new school, secret diaries, making friends, hidden passageways, underground laboratories, genetic mutations, and more.”
