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Thursday, March 30, 2023

Bob Scribner (ed) - Germany: A New Social & Economic History, 1450-1630, Volume 1

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Bob Scribner's "new" social and economic history of Germany is part of an academic series of works aiming to give a detailed a...
Tuesday, March 28, 2023

M.D. Lachlan - Celestial

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***Spoilers*** Celestial takes us back to the days of Apollo . The early missions are over. The space race, however, isn't. The Soviets ...
Thursday, March 23, 2023

Earl Swift - Across the Airless Wilds

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Across the Airless Wilds , a history of the Lunar Rover and its voyages on the final three Apollo missions, might seem like a niche subject ...
Monday, March 13, 2023

Neil Davidson - How Revolutionary were the Bourgeois Revolutions

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There is no doubt that Neil Davidson's How Revolutionary were the Bourgeois Revolutions is a piece of remarkable scholarly work, and de...
Friday, March 10, 2023

S.J. Klapecki - Station Six

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Rarely does science fiction address the lives of ordinary people. Station Six is different. Set in a space station "60 million miles...
Thursday, March 02, 2023

Alastair Reynolds - Eversion

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*** Spoilers *** Alastair Reynolds' standalone novels tend to be very different to the high-tech, galaxy spanning books set in his longe...
Tuesday, February 28, 2023

James M. Stayer - The German Peasants' War and the Anabaptist Community of Goods

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The Anabaptist movement was a significant break with established Christianity that began during the Reformation. The early Anabaptists conso...
Sunday, February 26, 2023

Robert Jungk - Brighter Than 1000 Suns

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Before reviewing this book I feel compelled to note that it represents a personal milestone of sorts. It is likely one of the oldest, unread...
Friday, February 24, 2023

James M. Cain - Serenade

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James M. Cain is best known for his two short novels The Postman Always Rings Twice and  Double Indemnity. Both of these are brilliant, tig...

Leigh Bardugo - Hell Bent

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Having thoroughly enjoyed Leigh Bardugo's Ninth House , I was looking forward to the sequel a great deal. Inevitably there was going to ...
Saturday, February 18, 2023

Kohei Saito - Marx in the Anthropocene: Towards the Idea of Degrowth Communism

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From the late 1990s onward the ecological core to Karl Marx's work has been drawn out by writers and thinkers such as John Bellamy Foste...
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Sunday, February 12, 2023

Mary-Jane Rubenstein - Astrotopia: The Dangerous Religion of the Corporate Space Race

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Mary-Jane Rubenstein opens her book by asking the reader to imagine a "bad dream or a mediocre sci-fi story" where Earth is becomi...
Thursday, February 09, 2023

R.F.Kuang - Babel, Or the Necessity of Violence: An Arcane History of the Oxford Translators' Revolution

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Babel is a truly remarkable novel. For the unwary reader it is likely to feel popular because of its initial similarity to the basic premise...
Tuesday, February 07, 2023

Donovan Moore - What Stars Are Made Of: The Life of Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin

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It is difficult, when reviewing biographies, to separate the review of the biography from the subject. It is all too tempting just to rewrit...

John Dickson Carr - The Mad Hatter Mystery

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I have been reading John Dickson Carr's Doctor Fell novels following my discovery of the later book  The Hollow Man last year. That is ...
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