Monday, August 27, 2018

Brothers to Dragons by Charles Sheffield

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Good but depressing story, 3/5 stars. -- mfw@wyle.org | 1.425.249.3936
Saturday, August 25, 2018

Planetside by Michael Mammy

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Good military drama, decent space opera, 4/5 stars.
Wednesday, August 22, 2018

Cambrian Explosion lends evidence to "cosmic" origin of life

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Cause of Cambrian Explosion - Terrestrial or Cosmic? And octopuses may be space aliens because they suddenly appeared, can regulate their ...
Tuesday, August 21, 2018

Die Fahrt von Michael Gerdes

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Interesting, melodramatic mystery with great suspense.  The story plays out like a murder mystery dinner with new revelations every page.  3...

Nightflyer and other Stories by George R.R. Martin

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Decent space opera science fiction from the 1970s.  He is a good writer and had talent when he was young.  4/5 stars.
Saturday, August 18, 2018

Win Bigly by Scott Adams

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Interesting and entertaining.  3/5 stars. -- mfw@wyle.org | 1.425.249.3936
Thursday, August 16, 2018

Magic smoke escaped Zino's power supply

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Long time readers of my blog (all 2 of you) will recall that in 2009 we bought a Dell Zino small-form-factor computer with blue ray optical ...

How to fail at almost everything. . . by Scott Adams

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I enjoyed this one.  The repetition, and non-stop disclaimers were very annoying.  A little bad (older, debunked) science. I think young peo...
Saturday, August 11, 2018

Proteus Unbound by Charles Sheffield

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Fun story, but the whole "form change" stuff is unappealing to me, 3/5 stars.

Zahltag, Kommissar Magnus

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Extremely well-scripted, tight murder mystery exploring the misery of the working poor, 5/5 stars. -- mfw@wyle.org | 1.425.249.3936 ...