#nowreading Night Watch by Sergei Lukyanenko
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@ColourOfSpring I am going to read the seemingly classic (but not known by me) fantasy author Fritz Leiber : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fritz_Leiber, I've just bought and received the first two tomes of the Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser stories :)
@panoramix This seems really cool and original. I want to read this book now :)
panoramixDichronauts, by Greg Egan. Nothing wrong with his imagination that's for sure. I still haven't figured out how gravity and navigation works in this world. The symbiosis(?) between two sentient species is also really interesting.
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ChristinaIn _The Hacking of the American Mind_, the real origin story of Coca-Cola is told. Atlanta pharmacist John Pemberton created a carbonated beverage with cocaine, alcohol, sugar and caffeine to help him get over his morphine addiction without resorting to opium. Instead Coca-Cola just transferred the addiction to four different hedonic substances. #nowreading
#nowreading The Drop, Michael Connelly.
public domain book imagesImage from page 47 of "Carnegie Institution of Washington publication" (1912)
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Image from page 47 of "Carnegie Institution of Washington publication" (1912)
Mahi-MaeIl sautait de nuage en nuage. C'était doux et consistant à la fois. Son pelage était chaud et moelleux et se fondait à la douceur des cumulus. Le sourire aux lèvres, il continua ses petits sauts, apprivoisant ses quatre nouvelles petites pattes. Le petit ver de terre s'était réincarné en mouton volant.
aqsalose (books)Finished part II (Walkyrie) in Alex Alice's Siegfried series a moment ago. The retelling of the old Norse saga continues, still as excellent as part one!
Watchmen writer Alan Moore goes to war with council over library closures http://www.telegraph.co.uk/books/news/watchmen-writer-alan-moore-goes-war-council-library-closures/
Watchmen writer Alan Moore goes to war with council over library closures
Alan Moore, the comic books writer known for creating Watchmen and V for Vendetta, has threatened to halt the filming of a television project set to take place in Northampton if the midlands town's council goes ahead with plans to close local libraries.