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KiTE: “Rollicking Sci-fi”… Book Blog Tour Update

bshears — Sat, 26 Mar 2011 19:15:43 +0000

Click on over to any of these fine blogs listed below for the full reviews and see what people are saying about KiTE. Or just go ahead and buy it by clicking this: KiTE is hard science fiction with heart.

The Book Connection (interview)

The Bec-ster
“This storyline is so new it just compelled me to want to keep reading. I had to see how it all ended.”

Syncopated Musings
“KiTE is not one of those books where you can check your brain at the door when you open its cover and begin to read.”

Elizabeth Mueller
“If computer programs wanted to take over the world, this would be the right book for them.”

I am a Pistacio
“Mr. Shears writes with a flavor reminiscent of Douglas Adams, but the resulting dish is entirely his own. Quite tasty.”

J. Lloyd Morgan
“When the “twist” of the book is revealed at the end, I found myself smiling. It was certainly clever.…I will give the following praise to the book: it’s like nothing I’ve read before. The author stays true to the tone and pacing of the book, which is always a plus.”

KiTE: Hard Sci-Fi with Heart

3/30 The Musings of a Hopeful Writer
3/31 Karen Adair
4/1 Why Not? Because I Said So.
4/2 My Life in a Laptop
4/4 mormonhermitmom’s book habit
4/11 T.J. Types TMI
4/15 A Bookworm’s Tale

Unscheduled stops:

Azurescape
Critical Mass
Rememorandom
The Atomic Spud

Confirmed: Shears, a “deft touch”; KiTE, a “rollicking sci-fi”"

bshears — Tue, 22 Mar 2011 10:12:48 +0000

According to this reviewer. And of course we would tend to agree.

KiTE book blog tour schedule

bshears — Wed, 16 Mar 2011 11:52:58 +0000

Haven’t read KiTE yet? What are you waiting for? KiTE is hard sci-fi with heart. Check these sites for reviews, a Shears interview, commenting and at least one giveaway at these book-loving blogs, starting about now and ongoing for a few weeks:

KiTE: Hard Sci-Fi with Heart

3/19 The Book Connection (Interview)
3/21 Designs by DeDe (Scrapbooking site? Hey, why not?)
3/23 The Bec-ster
3/24 Elizabeth Mueller
3/26 Husband and wife tandem reviews. Should be interesting: I Am A Pistacio and Syncopated Musings
3/26 A Writer’s Eyes
3/26 J. Lloyd Morgan
3/30 The Musings of a Hopeful Writer
3/31 Karen Adair
4/1 Why Not? Because I Said So.
4/2 My Life in a Laptop
4/4 mormonhermitmom’s book habit
4/11 T.J. Types TMI
4/15 A Bookworm’s Tale

Reviews with no schedule, which like Billy Pilgrim, will be unstuck in time:

Azurescape
Critical Mass
Rememorandom
The Atomic Spud

KiTE: Make your own bookmarks

bshears — Fri, 12 Nov 2010 23:29:58 +0000

JPG suitable for printing. Right-click and Save Image as…Enough KiTE bookmarks to last you a lifetime. If you live longer then just print another one. KiTE is a novel set in Earth orbit starring Mason Dash, operator of Kite, Janet Dash, his genius AI researcher wife and Sheila, his beautiful virtual assistant. More information here.

Kite bookmark sheet

Kite freebie satellite sites on Wix and Weebly

bshears — Wed, 02 Jun 2010 00:38:57 +0000

With both Wix and Weebly you can raise some nifty Flash-based simple webs sites. Be patient and remember to save as you go, especially with Wix. Got pretty far along and the browser crashed and…oops! Luckily I had already been through the head-banging, how-to phase and within a half hour or so had reconstructing it easily enough. With Wix, too, make sure you pick the template you want before doing any any otherr work. It doesn’t seem like it lets you transfer content from one template to another.

Weebly allowed the rotating Earth Flash 8 animation. Wix refused the same files because it was not ActionScript 3-compatible, even though I didn’t write in any ActionsScript.

Weebly also gives you the better URL but is somewhat limited in layout of elements.

They’re both free though so who cares?

Kite Wix Site
Kite Weebly Site

NASA issues future space tech RFI

bshears — Sun, 23 May 2010 13:29:23 +0000

NASA issues request for information for future space tech

Anyone planning to respond and cite KiTE as a source don’t forget about proper attribution. Possible techs from this prescient comedy to include: energy-agnostic launch method; space junk detection, slicing, dicing and processing; “BIC” reusable orbit booster modules…and more!

Excerpts available here http://www.facebook.com/kitethenovel
and here: http://kite.infinitybound.com

Infinitybound – State of the Blog

bshears — Thu, 29 Apr 2010 10:55:29 +0000

Small adjustment of focus but not really a big change, just adapting to ever-evolving virtual weather conditions. The winds of the interwebs are shifting. But we’re not going away, so all you loyal fans – especially you Cabot, Arkansas – can keep checking in. The Kite Facebook page for Kite: A Novel in Earth Orbit has become the primary outlet for space and Earth orbit and science fiction news and commentary. It’s open to everyone so please feel free to join. You’ll continue to see posts from there in real time in the right sidebar here as well.

Shifting that topic out is surrendipitous, since the experts advise your main site have a specific focus. We will continue to post our famous in-depth game reviews here and InfinityBound is still well-situated for when we finally pull the trigger on a publishing venture.

We will be striving to contribute smaller posts more in real time, mostly in the form of tips on the titles we’re looking at, old stand-bys that continue to take up our time, gaming news and commentary and perhaps previews of the reviews on which we are working. Next review should be Acgtunh Panzer: Kharkov 1943 by Paradox.

And of course, movies and writing. Well, so much for a specific focus.

Cheers!

The beginnings of Sheila’s search tech

bshears — Sun, 07 Mar 2010 16:47:14 +0000

In Kite Mason Dash sends Sheila on a search similar to the one used as an example in this story about a new artificial intelligence method for mega-fuzzy deep-topic searching, to be used to strip anonymity on the net.

NASA, a small step in the right direction

bshears — Sun, 07 Feb 2010 00:53:51 +0000

NASA awards $50 million in grants to private companies to develop technologies for Low Earth Orbit. A couple of the usual suspects are here , including Boeing, but also a start-up associated with Amazon’s founder, Jeff Bezos.

Janet Dash’s adaptive modules

bshears — Sun, 31 Jan 2010 16:13:34 +0000

Here they are. Adaptive intelligence in robots. Predator-prey behaviors. Is self-preservation inherent in intelligence?

Don’t know who Janet Dash is? Read Kite!