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News

August 14, 2016

We've just added our first 260 Press Photoessay to the website. Titled, Splashtown, it's about a waterpark in Texas. You can find it here.

August 7, 2011

Dreamer in Japanese, first 10 (well, maybe 15) chapters free to download here. More additions to the Just for Fun page.

August 6, 2007

In Jan 2006 we began the Neighborhood History Project, an attempt to bring together historical photos and stories of small towns using the latest mapping techology.

August 5, 2007

RM: We've revamped the site a bit. Added information about Dreamer in Japanese, and even added a Videowall. We're firing up the twosixty blog and will add new and interesting stuff on it as well. Hope you like it.

Divine Strake

RM: The Defense Department wanted to detonate 700 tons of Ammonium Nitrate and Fuel Oil at the Nevada Test Site. Unfortunately, the event was going generate some old-time fallout. Click on the link here to see why. After a year or so of wrangling and court time. . .in which maps from Under the Cloud and The US Atlas of Nuclear Fallout were presented into evidence, the Defense Threat Reduction Agency decided it was a bad idea and gave up on the project.

Dreamer goes Japanese.

KS: Two-Sixty's novel Dreamer has always had a Japanese dimension---travel through multiple universes, getting lost in the past, computers, high romance, getting smacked by low-flying aircraft. Very Japanese. In fact, manga, anime and lots of wasabi were involved with the early drafts.

Now, Dreamer is returning to its roots---in August 2007 Dreamer was published in a dual language version--English and Japanese.

Who knows-- you might see it eventually as an anime!

Small Town America Reconstruction Project

RM: In conjunction with Two-Sixty's parent company, LEGIS Corporation , we're moving forward with a unique project--using cutting edge software to digitally reconstruct the history of small town America. We're not going to disclose much more than that, but by late summer 2007 we should be able to tell you a lot more. Ever wonder what it was like in a small Midwestern town in the early 1950s? You'll find out!

Two-Sixty Press republishes the National Cancer Institute's 1983 cancer volumes.

RM: Way back in 1984 Tom Mason of the NCI mailed me three volumes of his massive study. IIt was a record of the rates for major cancers for every county in the United States---from 1950-59, 1960-69 and 1970-79. Being an environmental specialist, I used it from time to time--and assumed that most other professionals had access to it. I was wrong. Not long ago, I discovered that there were only one or two copies that count be accounted for.

And this didn;t include the one Tom had sent me. It seems the Government Printing Office quit publishing this important book years and years ago. Well, after thinking about it, I decided to republish it. It has now been available since April, 2006.

KS: More Videos! More Panoramas! More Animation! You name it, we're probably working on it. Yes, there will be more videos, and most will be brought to you courtesy of Flash 8. And yes, there will be more panoramas as well including Quicktime 360-degree panoramas.

RM: If you liked out Under the Cloud vid, youll be happy to know there are more like it on the way---and maybe even a film trailer for Dreamer! Nuclear Fallout Database The 1950s and realy 1960s were like no other era. At what other time did you have hot iron, copper and tungsten falling from the sky and into your own personal back yard? Of course, the homeowners weren't told about this hot detritus, but that's beside the point. Some of it is still there---and if we ever get our database forms working, you'll be able to see if your own county was among the hot ones. Our data was compiled in Microsoft Excel, exported to Microsoft Access, and ported to a MySQL server running on Linux. And our web pages are designed using Dreamweaver MX 2004. Despite all that, we may be able to offer a page on these premises that will let libraries---as well as you personally!---to find out how much fallout fell on your own personal home county.

Our IT guys at Bluehost.com tell us we might be able to offer this amazing database to our visitors any day now. Keep checking! Stuff You Probably Didn't Know Was Here Who hasn't tried to read a great book wihile listening to his/her Ipod? I love mine and I take it with me everywhere I go. Similarly, every film needs a music score and every good novel needs an album. So, even if you don't buy our novels Dreamer and The Atomic Express, you should know that you can make your own novel album by downloading the song list.. Nice publishers that we are, we've included this list. So, even if you don't buy our books (and you really, really should!) you can buy and download the score (a song at a time) merely by clicking in a few places---the first ones being here, here, here, here, here and here.


 


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