To recap from the February Roadhouse Report: A fan contest is announced! Alert readers will have noticed that I’m re-running “The History of Kate Shugak in 22 Objects” series here on stabenow.com. I’ve even managed to keep all the original comments. Some are pretty funny and all of them are fun. Scroll down to read them…
Tuesday, July 10th Kushtaka Tyler Mack was an eighteen-year old stick of post-adolescent dynamite just waiting for the right match. He was smart in all the wrong ways, using his intelligence chiefly to conspire with Boris Balluta, his best friend and coconspirator since childhood, on ways and means to avoid manual labor. Of medium height,…
The history of flight from its natural origins on the wings of the pterosaur to today’s technological wonders of the Airbus A320 and the Boeing 737. Richard Dawkins writes with a sense of delighted discovery, using the tiniest details to illuminate his narrative. Literally. …the smallest flying insect is the Fairyfly (it’s actually a wasp…
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ON A SUNNY DAY in southcentral Alaska, an official indicator of just how nice a day it is is, “The mountain’s out.” Which mountain? Well, obviously, you don’t live here. “The mountain” is of course, Denali, all 20,320 feet of it. A hundred miles from Anchorage, it looms up substantially on the northern horizon nonetheless.…
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Warning: Spoilers spoken here. And a contest! With prizes!* So I put it to the Danamaniacs–what should be the object from the twenty-first Kate Shugak novel? Imma just cut-and-paste the winning entry here: Thank you, Dagna! Because what could be more apropos than a compass of any kind as a symbol for Less Than…
Warning: Spoilers spoken here.And a contest! With prizes!* Upon returning home from New York City in 1994, clutching A Cold Day for Murder‘s Edgar in a sweaty fist, almost the very first thing to appear in my mailbox was a letter from Tony Hillerman, requesting a short story for the collection he was editing, The…
Warning: Spoilers spoken here. And a contest! With prizes! Scroll down for details.* It’s the Super Cub. It’s basic transportation in Bush Alaska and in Kate19 it is also the murder weapon. (And even if you took all that away, there is that fabulous Head of Zeus cover above. Although if you’re taking off from…
On the other side of the door, the two men in the almost identical uniforms exchanged a long, expressionless stare. Finally Jim said in a voice entirely without inflection, “Liam,” and nodded at a chair. “Have a seat.” “Thanks, Jim.” Campbell unzipped the heavy blue jacket and sat down. There was silence. “How long you…
Ike’s personal PI, Captain Billy Boyle, is shipped first to Crete, there to recover an SOE agent so as to airfreight them both into southern France, with help from the Allies (although DeGaulle will never let it be said that France didn’t liberate itself, oh no). There they are to hook up with the OSS…
THE LAST DC-3 I was on belonged to Mudhole Smith’s Cordova Airlines, on a trip to Cordova to visit family there. The plane was stripped down to the bare fuselage, half the seats had been removed to make room for cargo, and an army blanket had been stretched across the center of the plane, from…
