The Lair of the White Worm & The Lady of the Shroud
David Stuart Davies and Bram Stoker
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With an Introduction by David Stuart Davies. 'The worst parts were the great masses of flesh of the...
Star Trek Into Darkness
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The official movie tie-in novelization of the highly anticipated sequel to 2009’s blockbuster...
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Australia Burns (Show Australia Some Love #3)
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Stories in this collection are contributed by authors who care about Australia and the relief...
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The Comet Seekers
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One Day meets The Time Traveler's Wife in this spellbinding, magical debut novel about love, loss,...
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ClareR (5784 KP) rated The Galaxy and the Ground Within in Books
Feb 1, 2022
The Galaxy and the Ground Within is another look into the lives of a diverse group of people. Apart from a technological failure that strands the Five-Hops guests, nothing much actually happens in this novel (ok, something does happen about 3/4 of the way through, but I’m not saying what it is!), but what I really love about these books are the characters and how they’re explored and developed. The fact that they’re aliens is by-the-by. They have their own hopes and fears, cultural expectations and taboos.
Oh how i adore these books - it’s everything that I love in literature, be it science fiction, literary fiction or ANYTHING!
If you haven’t read The Wayfarers series (lucky you!), I’d say that you need to. And if you have and like me, you’ve been putting off reading the final book, it won’t disappoint you.
Entheóphage
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Dr. Isobel Fallon thinks she's found a treatment that will help her son and others suffering from...
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Peter Shephard (2822 KP) rated Terraforming Mars in Tabletop Games
May 28, 2019
While the game can be a little difficult to play in the first game, the second, third etc games will be played much quicker, easier, and more enjoyable. Every one will be different, too. It typically takes about 90mins to 2h to play, in our experience, but there have been longer games - there is an element of luck with both the cards drawn, and what everyone else does! Holding on to a card because it needs the Temperature below -8 degrees, then seeing everyone else pumping the temperature from -12 to -6 means the card is (probably) worthless.
The science is obviously science-fiction but is based heavily in reality, albeit simplified, and very interesting on it's own right.
Expansions do add further flavours and variations, but the base game is absolutely able to stand on it's own two feet.
Talking to My Daughter About the Economy: A Brief History of Capitalism
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In this letter to his teenage daughter, one of the world's most famous economists uses vivid stories...
Night Reader Reviews (683 KP) rated Micro in Books
Jan 9, 2020
In Micro a group of young graduate students at a college or approached by the head of a company called Nanigen. The graduate students are invited out to the Nanigen lab in Hawaii to see for themselves the work being done there and to see if they want to work for the company. Out of curiosity all the approached graduate students agree to go but their trip to Hawaii becomes more than what they bargain for.
Nanigen is studying the micro world mainly looking for chemicals that micro animals are making that could be useful to humans in some way. Also like many scientific companies in the private sector Nanigen is doing top secret work for the government. Greed gets in the way for some of the scientist already working for the company and the trip becomes extremely dangerous and even deadly for the graduate students. Having to deal with micro-bots and new technology never heard of before the students must fight to survive a world very different from our own.
What I like most about the book was one of the same features that keeps me reading Michael Crichton's work. The author does his research very thoroughly. The book may be a work of science fiction but there is a bibliography in the back for the curious reader to be able to learn more about the fascinating topics brought up in the book. For being a work of fiction the animals, plants, chemicals, technology,and scientific concepts are not. What I liked least about the book was how similar to another one of his books it was and how predictable some parts felt to me. Again though, I am very familiar with Michael Crichton's work and that would probably explain why it felt so predictable. I cannot hold that against the book.
Overall I would rate this book a 4 out of 4 and would highly recommend it. It has a very strong story and is believable which is an important factor for science fiction. The target readers for this book would start around high school age if not older. I feel like high school students will get the basic concept of what book was talking about but they might be lost on some of the finer detail. It all just depends on if the book is being read for the story or if the reader is interested in science specifically microbiology and nanotechnology.
I feel like I need to note on here that Richard Preston finishing the book did not harm it in any way.
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Encyclopedia of Cryptozoology: A Global Guide to Hidden Animals and Their Pursuers
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On every continent and in every nation, animals unrecognized by modern science are reported on a...