Anders Celsius Determining the Shape of the Earth"). Celsius' participation in the Lapland expedition won him much respect in Sweden with the government and his peers, and played a key role in generating interest from the Swedish authorities in donating the resources required to construct a new modern observatory in Uppsala. He was successful in the request, and Celsius founded the Uppsala Astronomical Observatory in 1741. The observatory was equipped with instruments purchased during his long voyage abroad, comprising the most modern instrumental technology of the period. In astronomy, Celsius began a series of observations using colored glass plates to record the
Lou Anders to submit to "Live Without a Net". Roberson's work subsequently appeared in "Argosy" magazine, Anders' "FutureShocks" and his novels "Here, There & Everywhere" and "Paragaea: A Planetary Romance" have both been published by Pyr. Roberson was also featured in the Anders-edited anthology "Sideways in Crime" (2008). Anders notes that his anthology "Live Without a Net" was a direct reaction against a certain type of science fiction. He says, in interview with Rick Kleffel: I was reacting to what I felt was a preponderance of post-cyberpunk in American science fiction in the year 2000. The anthology was a deliberate attempt to