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Scheduled maintenance for Friday afternoon…

Readers: Be aware that my web guy will be doing some needed maintenance this afternoon from around 3 to 6 pm (Eastern). During that time period Behind the Black will be down for an hour or so.

Genesis cover

On Christmas Eve 1968 three Americans became the first humans to visit another world. What they did to celebrate was unexpected and profound, and will be remembered throughout all human history. Genesis: the Story of Apollo 8, Robert Zimmerman's classic history of humanity's first journey to another world, tells that story, and it is now available as both an ebook and an audiobook, both with a foreword by Valerie Anders and a new introduction by Robert Zimmerman.

 
The ebook is available everywhere for $5.99 (before discount) at amazon, or direct from my ebook publisher, ebookit. If you buy it from ebookit you don't support the big tech companies and the author gets a bigger cut much sooner.


The audiobook is also available at all these vendors, and is also free with a 30-day trial membership to Audible.
 

"Not simply about one mission, [Genesis] is also the history of America's quest for the moon... Zimmerman has done a masterful job of tying disparate events together into a solid account of one of America's greatest human triumphs."--San Antonio Express-News

5 comments

  • Lee S

    Bob… We all know I’m an idiot ;-) , but I have an evening pause for you, the address I have saved bounced back, and I can’t find on your site… Can you update me please..

  • John

    No that doesn’t work for me, let’s reschedule. ; )

  • Alton

    Lee S:

    Robert Zimmerman can be reached zimmerman at nasw.org

  • t-dub

    If your IT guy could shed some light on why your site won’t respond to me when I am using my VPN that would be nice. I have had to add your ipv4 address to the exclusion list on my VPN which is suboptimal.

  • @t-dub
    We are not intentionally blocking VPN traffic. We do use technology to protect this site and most likely what’s happening is that tech identifies the IP block or addresses you are using as likely associated with bad behavior(from others in the same vpn ip), so it probably auto blocks some Vpn traffic. Most vpn providers allow you to choose different vpn end points and you can experiment with those. But at the end of the day due to people hiding behind vpns and probing or attacking web sites you may continue to run into these issues.

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