A year ago today, we launched the Butterflies & Aliens Library of Literary Eccentricities and Rarities… “to celebrate our shared delight and curiosity in books, about books, over books”… so not only are we celebrating a happy new year, but also the first birthday of our little pandemic project that could.
With the release of Denis Villeneuve’s new version of Frank Herbert’s Dune brought to the big screen, it seemed a terrible oversight to not have a post here at the Butterflies & Aliens Library about the original book itself, in many ways a key piece of our origin story…
Our logo was designed by one of our founders under the umbrella of one of his other projects, Black Riders. He talks a bit more about it over on their website…
Why Butterflies and Aliens? Well, the short answer is because www.catchingbutterfliesandsharkattackvictims.com was too long…
So like most things here at the Butterflies & Aliens Library, our About Us page isn’t exactly the usual about us page. Instead, this is a collection of “origin stories” that we’ve added to The Stacks, including our very first post ever. If there’s anything else you’d like to know about us, feel free to drop us a line!
Back on December 19, 2021, we celebrated a pretty significant anniversary… five years since our Butterfly-in-Chief survived a stroke. Which got us thinking about how much had changed in those five years… and the last two… and this last year, the first year of the Butterflies & Aliens Library of Literary Eccentricities & Rarities…