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A few book notes

Just briefly: :: Cetaganda is the next book up (for me) in Lois McMaster Bujold’s ongoing saga of the adventures of Miles Vorkosigan, and as usual, a fine book indeed, full of politics and intrigue and adventure as our Miles … Continue reading

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Origin: a tale of immortality

Deep in the rain forests of South America there is a secret laboratory complex that is devoted to a single project, and the result of that project is a girl named Pia. All of their work has led to the … Continue reading

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Gordon, the fat guy, and the skinny douche

Two years ago, when Master Chef started up on teevee, I took note of the three judges. Gordon Ramsay, everybody knows. Graham Elliot? Never heard of him, but when they indicated that he has at least one Michelin star, I … Continue reading

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Zoom! Bang!

A couple of science fiction booknotes! Zap! Pow! :: I’ve seen some mention of a book over the last year or so on various SF blogs called Ready Player One, by a writer named Ernest Cline. Aside from those mentions, … Continue reading

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“Sacre Bleu!” (musings on a Christopher Moore novel)

(So I read Lance Mannion’s review of this book, and I wanted to refer to mine…only to discover that I wrote it but never posted it. Oops.) Any serious reader has, I suppose, an honor roll of authors whose work … Continue reading

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Making Piece

Grief is an odd emotion. It’s deeply unpleasant at first, and it pretty much stays unpleasant the longer it’s there. But you eventually reach a point where even though it’s unpleasant, you don’t mind grief all that much, because at … Continue reading

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“Across the Universe” by Beth Revis

One theme I see a lot in various science fiction commentary sites and blogs I read is that the genre itself is lagging in readership behind fantasy and horror to a pretty significant degree, and that one of the reasons … Continue reading

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River of Stars

That’s the title of Guy Gavriel Kay’s next novel: River of Stars. As I noted before, it is set in the same fictional China as his last book, the amazing Under Heaven, albeit several hundred years later, so it’s not … Continue reading

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“Until that one day, the day I went Crazy, I was fine.”

I finished reading a new book, The Long Walk: A Story of War and the Life That Follows, by Brian Castner, the other day. Since then I’ve been thinking about one question: What good comes from war? This is one … Continue reading

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When I am Lord of the Planet, this fellow shall be my Science Advisor.

A few weeks ago, Kevin Drum had a post (yes, I am too lazy to track down the link) in which he indicated that he just doesn’t think the evolution-versus-creationism “debate” is that big a deal, and his reasons basically … Continue reading

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