{"id":679,"date":"2020-12-28T16:36:24","date_gmt":"2020-12-28T16:36:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/andrew-may.com\/blog\/?p=679"},"modified":"2020-12-28T16:36:25","modified_gmt":"2020-12-28T16:36:25","slug":"a-reasonably-productive-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/andrew-may.com\/blog\/2020\/12\/a-reasonably-productive-year\/","title":{"rendered":"A reasonably productive year"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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In spite of all the difficulties this year, I\u2019ve still managed to do a reasonable amount of writing as the following table shows:<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n
Year<\/td>\nBooks<\/td>\nMagazine articles<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2019<\/td>\n3<\/td>\n12<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2020<\/td>\n2<\/td>\n9<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

The main book this year (on the left in the picture above) was The Science of Sci-Fi Music<\/a> from Springer. I also did a couple of music-related articles for Fortean Time<\/em>s \u2013 \u201cCharles Fort and the Viennese Trichord\u201d in FT390 and \u201cThe Music of the Spheres\u201d in FT398 (that\u2019s the issue you can see in the picture).<\/p>\n

The high-point on the magazine side was a huge (eight and a half pages) article about the Hubble Space Telescope in the April issue of All About Space<\/em>. This was great fun to write, as the editor wanted some quotes from scientists who have worked with Hubble, which gave me a chance to get in touch with (among other people) an old colleague of mine from the 1980s. The result was probably the best magazine feature I\u2019ve ever written \u2013 and hardly anyone saw it, because it came out during the Covid-19 lockdown!<\/p>\n

I also had several articles in How It Works<\/em>, including ones on antimatter and \u201cDeadly Weapons of the Future\u201d seen in the above photograph. Related to the latter subject, my other book this year was The First Killer Robots: Guided Missiles in the 20th Century<\/a>. This one was self-published, although based on material from several short ebooks previously published by Bretwalda Books.<\/p>\n

Hopefully more to come in 2021!<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In spite of all the difficulties this year, I\u2019ve still managed to do a reasonable amount of writing as the following table shows: Year Books Magazine articles 2019 3 12 2020 2 9 The main book this year (on the left in the picture above) was The Science of Sci-Fi Music from Springer. I also … <\/p>\n

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