Welcome Carnival of Spacers!
Ken Murphy / 11:38 pm April 26th, 2007
Thanks to Henry Cate for putting together the first Carnival of Space. I’ll admit that I’m a little unclear on the whole on-line “Carnival of” concept, in large part because I’ve never had the time to look into it. I am thankful that Mr. Cate included the Lunar Library in the Carnival, and I hope you enjoy your visit. Be sure to visit the Out of the Cradle home page as well, for a lot of other good content.
A brief overview:
This is the Lunar Library home page, and all the categories roll up into this one, which is why if you look at the bottom you’ll see some 35 or so pages total. Each page represents approximately 30 entries. New additions of note will be filed at the top, but will eventually get put in chronological order (usually after they roll off the first page), which is how the bulk of the Library is organized.
To your left is the menu that will narrow the entries to a particular area of interest. Some of the main sections like High Frontier and Youth are sub-divided into groups of similar references. If you want to know more about what happens to the human body in space, drop by High Frontier Biologics (there’s a really good on-line reference in there). If you want to find maps of our Moon, drop by Selenography. If you need an escape, then some Moon or High Frontier Fiction might be just the ticket to space.
Each entry has basic bibliographic information which should be sufficient for inter-library loan purposes. If the publisher has a website relating to the work, that will be linked to. Other links are for on-line text where available, reviews here at Out of the Cradle and elsewhere, interviews, news articles, and so forth. Where an Amazon.com link exists I’ll include that so that additional reviews may be consulted, or a copy purchased.
This website receives a small cut of each Amazon purchase which is used for website upkeep so that we can continue to make this reference available. If it ever gets to the point where those proceeds exceed the website expenses, then any excess apportioned to yours truly will be applied to the purchasing budget of the Lunar Library (which currently comes entirely out of my salary). No benefit accrues from publisher website links, but I feel it’s important to include them for further reference.
One thing to remember is that this represents a physical collection. This is not just a collection of weblinks, but an online manifestation of over 50′ of shelf space representing most of the best reference books and articles available in each category, and for many of which the text is on-line. A lot of the sections do contain a list of on-line only weblinks, but that’s at the very end of each section. If you don’t see a Moon work here that you know about, it’s because I don’t yet have a physical copy. Feel free to let me know and I’ll try to find it. Please address any comments to my Lunadyne account at gmail.
Enjoy your visit, and feel free to leave comments if you know about a particular work!
[Addendum: Your friendly has since hosted a Carnival of Space, the 18th, with another one coming up in November. They’re actually a lot of fun!]
