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Top Ten Tuesday (September 1) – Top Ten Characters you just didn’t click with

Top Ten Tuesday is a weekly meme created by The Broke and The Bookish, where each week bloggers are given a new Top Ten Theme to blog about. This is time is the case of a special kind of characters…
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A busy year for bacteria

This is definitively the year of bacteria in terms of scientific discovery and ground-breaking experiments. It was only a few months ago that a new strand of DNA was engineered in a lab, creating an organism with semi-synthetic (“alien”) DNA. And it’s…
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Loncon3 – the Convention and the Hugo Awards

A WorldCon – i.e., the annual SF Word Convention – is an amazing event, culminating in the Hugo Awards night but also featuring a head-spinning series of events, panels, games,  music performances (called filk in SF jargon), art dealers, promotions…
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Hail to the (Z) Queen – The Newsflesh Universe, by Mira Grant/Seanan McGuire

It started with reading Sci-Fi Magazine’s quote on the book cover “The zombie novel Robert A. Heinlein might have written” – a suggestion I could not avoid checking out. It ended with me reading everything – and I repeat, everything…
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