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So Stephen King can doff his fictional cap to a husband and wife he’d have been happy to create. But it’s not all that complicated, take a sociopath with an above average IQ and a penchant for sadism and add a big dollop of a husband with a low IQ tha ...more |
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(3.5) 1971 and the US goes off the gold standard bc the burden of vietnam, the great society, and NATO is just too much. America’s empire is diminished. The interesting issue is how much nothings changed. Nixon wants low interest rates to goose the econ ...more |
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(3.5) this is a fine work. It quite carefully chronicles the historiography of attempts to understand the people of the Polynesian triangle:their origins,their navigational prowess, and their lore. For myself, having come to a greater understanding of ...more |
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So I was feeling curmudgeonly, this was not Dozois Best-ofs… The Scalzi stories are little more than short jokes… There’s a vampire and a mech story that are close to pointless… But then the compilation stages an impressive comeback… The several Reynolds ...more |
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“Atheism turns out to be too simple. If the whole universe has no meaning, we should never have found out that it has no meaning...”
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Obviously they're going to be a lot less limited in publication than fiction, and I hardly have to explain why. I just don't quite understand why no decent results come back when I Google "top nonfiction picks published in 2025"... before 2024, I'd always find at least a few I was interested in each month, but ever since then, not so much. Is it just me? If it is, throw some suggestions my way? I'd greatly appreciate it if you know of any.