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Mark's first novel, WYRM, has just been published by Bantam Spectra as a trade paperback.
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Jormungandr links:
http://www.vikingage.com/vac/lokis-kids.html
http://http://media.dickinson.edu/Germanic_Mythology/Cosmography3.html
http://www.stowrie.demon.co.uk/stoor.htm
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Apocalypse Watch will keep you informed about signs of impending doom, such as fiery letters appearing in the sky, or the Cubs winning a pennant. This week:
Pssst! Wanna buy a T. Rex? Only $12 million (plus postage and handling). Dinosaur fossils for sale on the Internet:
And, the infamous exploding whale:
http://www.xmission.com/~grue/whale/
Whether it's frogs, boils, or just an unusual number of Jehovah's Witnesses knocking at your door, it all points to one thing. You know what we mean.
Just spotted on the Internet:
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And, an anti-chain letter:
http://www.perry.com/bizarre/antichn.html
Are there unusual lights in the sky? Strange footprints in the snow? Are you afraid to open the refrigerator, because the mold on your Cheez Whiz is starting to resemble Elvis? E-mail us here at Apocalypse Watch and we'll post it. And see to it that you get professional help. This week:
Winking Jesus on the Internet!
http://www.fastlane.net/~sandman/jesus/
Sightings links:
UFOs
http://www.artesia.net/~jstyck/ufo.shtml
http://www.geocities.com/Area51/Vault/4658/
Bigfoot
http://www.kent.net/paranormal/bigfoot/sightings.html
Elvis
http://ace.cs.ohiou.edu/personal/smccormi/elvis.html
http://www.elvissightings.com/elvis/
When the eschaton is finally immanentized, where ya gonna read about it? In the New York Times? The Wall Street Journal? (The Dow Jones Industrial Average fell sharply yesterday, after a fiery pit opened in the floor of the New York Stock Exchange...) Nah. The tabloids have had this story staked out for years. AW's favorites so far, both from the Weekly World News:
Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse Photographed in the Arizona Desert
(Next up: Rose Garden photo op)
Post Office Discovers 2000 Year Old Letter from Jesus Christ
(Postmaster insists it will be delivered "any day now")
We are pleased to note that the Weekly World News, that bastion of cutting-edge journalism, has outdone itself. These headlines are all from the front page of the June 24 edition:
Six signs that prove the world is coming to an end!
(Sign #6: They're starting to roll the credits.)
The ONLY way to protect your family from the apocalypse!
(Now available in a handy aerosol!)
Where the battle of Armageddon will start--and how it will end!
(They tried to get Sydney, but the Olympics were already booked and there's no hotel space.)
The moon really will turn to blood--on Christmas day!
(In other astronomical developments, Mars will turn into a ball of warm mucus and asteroids will come
flying out of Uranus.)
FIVE WORDS you MUST SAY to survive the end of the world!
("How now, brown cow?" No, that's only four...)
When we will all wear the number 666--the 'Mark of the Beast'
(Can we order ours in mauve and lime green?)
The Anti-Christ is alive--and living in the U.S.!
(And what better way to introduce our newest Apocalypse Watch feature:)
Yes, folks, we have it on the unassailable authority of the Weekly World News: The Anti-Christ is among us! But who is he? Where is he? Does your mailman keep his hat on no matter how warm it is? Does your neighbor's kid's "birthmark" bear a suspicious resemblance to a certain three digit number? Does your Uncle Damien's breath wilt crabgrass? Send your nominees to Apocalypse Watch, and when we get a significant statistical sampling (or at least three or four entries) , we'll start publishing the results right here.
"Things fall apart; the center cannot hold;" --W. B. Yeats
Reprieve! Yes folks, we are happy to announce that we all have an extra second to prepare for the end of the millennium. One second will be added at the end of July to compensate for slowing of the earth's rotation, meaning that instead of 80,791,739 seconds left, there are in fact:
Only
*As of the last update. If you want a more up-to-the-millisecond count, use this link:
http://greenwich2000.com/countdown/
This site uses a Java applet to put a millennium countdown on your screen that runs off your computer's
own clock. The site will also allow you to check your computer's clock against the master clock at
the U. S. Naval Observatory.
"Science-fiction fans will love Mark Fabi's Wyrm."
--Washington Post Book World
"A huge, ambitious, roller-coaster of a debut."
--Kirkus Reviews
"... I laughed out loud a lot. Wyrm is a great read."
--Barnes & Noble Explorations
"Wyrm is a hugely enjoyable book."
--Charles Sheffield, Hugo award winning author of Georgia on My Mind
"If the of the millennium doesn't scare you yet, this book will."
--Donald Kingsbury, Nebula finalist, author of Courtship Rite
"...a classic...", "...highly contagious...", "...compares favorably to William Gibson's Neuromancer
and Neal Stephenson's Snow Crash...", "...a great read...", "I loved this book!!!", "...I want more!!!"
--excerpts from reader reviews at Amazon.com.
"...thoroughly well written...Add Wyrm to the annals of important cyber fiction along
with books like True Names and Snow Crash."
--SF Revu
"...criminally boring..."
--Scifi Weekly
Hey, folks, you can't please everybody!