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Red Moon
Published on 12 Jul 2009 at 2:50 pm.
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I’ve been very busy with extra projects at the college the last couple of weeks. However, I try to wind down at bed time by reading a chapter or two from a novel. The latest one has been Red Moon, by Michael Cassutt. Like the last book that I reviewed here, this one is a […]
Interesting book by Joven
Published on 5 Jul 2009 at 10:29 pm.
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A week or so ago, Byrd was at the library with her niece and brought home a book that was on the new rack. It was called The Book of God and Physics, by Enrique Joven. At first, I thought that it might be a book about reconciling science and religion. Instead, though, it is […]
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Orbit, by Thomas Block
Published on 15 May 2009 at 1:17 pm.
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Final Exams are over! Final grades are now turned in! I can sort of relax for a short bit, now. I still have tons of things to accomplish, but at least the frantic final exams week is over.
Over the last week, I’ve been grading exams, papers, computing grades, etc. But, I […]
A timely novel
Published on 29 Apr 2009 at 4:05 pm.
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I am a big science fiction fan. A couple of months ago, I was visiting a bookstore just down the road from where I live. I ran across an interesting book that I got around to reading a couple weeks ago. The book was called The Patron Saint of Plagues by […]
Michael Crichton: 1942-2008
Published on 6 Nov 2008 at 1:03 am.
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The year was 1969. A lot was going on that year. It was the year that President Kennedy’s national goal of landing a man on the Moon and returning him safely to Earth was realized. No one had ever sat foot on another world before, and no samples of the Moon had […]
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The movie Pi
Published on 30 May 2008 at 4:23 pm.
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I am an avid scifi fan. But, I think of science fiction as more than just aliens and spacecraft. In fact, I sometimes rather just like fiction that incorporates science. Of course, by that reasoning, TV shows such as CSI would count as science fiction, since they are heavy in the trappings […]
Arthur C. Clarke: 1917-2008
Published on 18 Mar 2008 at 9:31 pm.
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Today, I read that the famous science fiction author Arthur C. Clarke has died. I wrote about him a few months ago just after his 90th birthday. For about a half century he had lived in Sri Lanka. His health has been poor for some years, too. Though his […]
