Science, History, and Fiction in Everyday Life
Teaser Tuesday is a weekly bookish meme, hosted by MizB of A Daily Rhythm. Anyone can play along! Just do the following: • Grab your current read • Open to a random page • Share two (2) “teaser” sentences from…
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Top Ten Tuesday is a weekly meme created by The Broke and The Bookish (we are all fond of lists, aren’t we?), where each week bloggers are given a new Top Ten theme to blog about. This is time is the…
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Teaser Tuesdays is a weekly bookish meme, hosted by MizB of A Daily Rhythm. Anyone can play along! Just do the following: • Grab your current read • Open to a random page • Share two (2) “teaser” sentences from…
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Teaser Tuesdays is a weekly bookish meme, hosted by MizB of A Daily Rhythm. Anyone can play along! Just do the following: • Grab your current read • Open to a random page • Share two (2) “teaser” sentences from…
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I normally do not like fantasy or even retelling of ancient myths: even when the writing is good, it’s difficult to be fresh and entertaining, let alone original. But it is the case to say here that Alis Franklin with…
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Teaser Tuesdays is a weekly bookish meme, hosted by MizB of A Daily Rhythm. Anyone can play along! Just do the following: • Grab your current read • Open to a random page • Share two (2) “teaser” sentences from somewhere on that page • BE…
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You can’t say Andrew Piper’s new novel has an original title. Checking on Amazon I have found a few books with identical or similar names (and I don’t even mention close relatives, like my favourite Dostoevsky’s novel, Demons). When you open…
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I have already written – rather enthusiastically – about the first instalment of this trilogy, The Lives of Tao, saying that the book is an innovative example of a techno/sci-fi thriller and that I looked forward to the rest of the trilogy. That’s…
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I was recently discussing with some friends about our favourite horror novels and more precisely which specific kind of horror each one of us preferred (this article can be a good introduction to the debate). I had no troubles selecting my…
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In SF fandom Dan Simmons is especially known for the Hyperion Cantos series, and with a reason: those books, especially the first two – Hyperion and the Fall of Hyperion – are truly exceptional. But Dan Simmons is an extremely versatile writer,…
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