So much news: a “Big Based Book Sale,” Liberty Con weekend, and an update on fulfillment for the Wise of Heart crowdfund!
Bypass the cultural gatekeeping, support non-woke authors, and get yourself some great books from both established and emerging talent. The Big Based Book Sale runs through Tuesday June 27, 2023. The sale offers about 150 books for free or $0.99, including about sixty works new to the sale. The contributors include science fiction grandmasters, Dragon Award winners and nominees, established mainstream authors, and emerging indie talent.
“The Shadow that bred them can only mock, it cannot make: not real new things of its own,” Tolkien noted. At a time when evil continues trying to corrupt and ruin what the good have created, support genuine creators, and get some great books from authors who don’t hate you!
Here’s a quilt of some of the previously offered books:
And here are some of the new arrivals to the sale:
I’ll be at LibertyCon in Chattanooga this weekend. I’ll present my talk, "What Physicists Don’t Know About Electromagnetism” Friday June 23 in MTG 3 .
In the 1940s, physicists and engineers alike used Stratton’s Electromagnetic Theory as their text. They learned about such applied topics as simple antennas, waveguides, arrays, even radio wave propagation over the earth. Today, physicists use Jackson’s Classical Electrodynamics. There’s still material on simple antennas and waveguides, but nothing on arrays and the only practical case of radio wave propagation mentioned is Schumann resonances. Meanwhile radio scientists and electromagnetic engineers have taken Schelkunoff’s concept of “impedance” and put it to work in a host of practical applications understanding transmission and reflection of microwave signals. They’ve worked out link laws that describe what fraction of energy makes it from a transmitter to a receiver, or reflects from a target in a radar system. They’ve worked out fundamental equations for physical limits on the size and performance of small antennas. What else don’t physicists know about electromagnetism? And what implications does it have for our understanding of how the world works? Find out in this talk!
Also, I’ll be signing and selling books along Author’s Alley Saturday 6-9 pm.
Hope to see you there!
Finally, books are starting to arrive. I’m going to be out of town traveling next week, but I’ll keep the fulfillment crew at home busy getting books prepped and packaged to be sent.
Cheers!