July 5, 2002

Total List Price: $48.90 Buy Together Today: $34.24         Amazon.com is marketing Jack Williamson's Terraforming Earth with Charles Wilson's The Chronoliths. Either this is a remarkable coincidence or Amazon’s staff is quick enough to note that these two novels tied today for the John W. Campbell Memorial Award for the best science fiction novel of 2001. 9:09:39 PM

The first direct shipment of oil from Russia to the United States was received at Houston, Texas earlier this week. Continued shipments of this type will help the United States reduce its dependence on Middle Eastern oil. 8:57:03 PM

Newsday.com has an enthuastic review of SIX DAYS OF WAR: June 1967 and the Making of the Modern Middle East, by Michael B. Oren who spoke last month in Toronto. 8:48:06 PM