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December 4th, 2017, 12:19 PM | #2251 |
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Just finished reading this ( I got the special numbered limited edition bookplate - with autograph from Dave Kendall the artist ) anyway - although I have read it before , I really enjoying reading it without any gaps or weekly pauses - it really is very enjoyable . Deadworld is the realm of the Dark Judges. It started out as being recognisable as a future Earth, but - while having advanced technology - still more similar to late 20th/early 21st century than contemporary Mega-City One. There are various differences to the main reality, including the Judges and the names of American states (the existence of Tuscarora), but the crucial difference is that the world already viewed life more cheaply than Dredd's own. Dear Wendigo - you are recommended to try abebooks - a far superior source for out of print books Last edited by 73north; December 4th, 2017 at 12:29 PM.. |
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"Lincoln" by David Herbert Donald. The definitive biography of Abraham Lincoln.
I had DVR'd the movie "Lincoln" from a free weekend preview of HBO a number of months ago. Somewhere in the middle of its presentation I had tuned in and caught a few minutes but the AL as portrayed by Daniel Day Lewis did not look familiar at all. I had preconceived notions of Lincoln that were entirely false. I felt like getting to know the character through a book would be the logical precursor to viewing the movie. I'm 100 pages in and the real Lincoln is markedly different than my assumptions were. |
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Beyond The Aquila Rift. A collection of scifi short stories by Alastair Reynolds. Most of them I've already read, but his tales never get old. After that, his new book Revenger.
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Currently reading "Based on a True Story: A Memoir by Norm MacDonald". But then it`ll be ,
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Probably a result of the popularity of The Man in the high Castle I have been seeing a lot of alternate post WW2 history products lately, novels & otherwise.
Gonna try and read this in the coming year. Decades ago, Japan won the Second World War. Americans worship their infallible Emperor, and nobody believes that Japan's conduct in the war was anything but exemplary. Nobody, that is, except the George Washingtons - a shadowy group of rebels fighting for freedom. Their latest subversive tactic is to distribute an illegal video game that asks players to imagine what the world might be like if the United States had won the war instead.* ** Captain Beniko Ishimura's job is to censor video games, and he's working with Agent Akiko Tsukino of the secret police to get to the bottom of this disturbing new development. But Ishimura's hiding something... He's slowly been discovering that the case of the George Washingtons is more complicated than it seems, and the subversive videogame's origins are even more controversial and dangerous than either of them originally suspected. |
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Goldeneye by Matthew Parker
So if you know your Ian Fleming, you know that he loved Jamaica, spent every winter there after the war, and wrote all the Bond novels and stories there. And in fact some of the best moments in the books are when Bond goes to the West Indies. There are plenty of biographies of Fleming out there, but this has a different angle, concentrating on his links to Jamaica in that end of empire period, how the island was changing, and how that fed into the creation of James Bond. |
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