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Harry Turtledove shows what might have happened if the Confederacy had won the Battle of Antietam, and the war.
Each time I watch one of these films, I am struck by something different. This time around, I was particularly aware of the fact that in the five Star Wars films made so far, we are seeing essentially the same images, over and over again. Each time through, they are placed in different contexts, used in different sequences, but basically Lucas is telling stories from a very basic visual vocabulary.
Doctor John Dee and Rabbi Judah Loew face demons in sixteenth-century Prague.
While on holiday I finally finished the reading "Return to the Whorl", the final volume of Gene Wolfe's "The Book of the Short Sun" science-fiction trilogy. A deep, complex and literary work, it's one of those books I know I shall have to read a second (and possibly third) time to fully understand.
The 2002 Hugo Awards were announced last night.
A novel about Big Science and political chicanery at a nuclear weapons lab.
Of course, it's more than just sex.
BC Writer of the Week