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( The Worst Is Yet to Come: A Post-Capitalist Survival Guide (Peter Fleming, 2019/#21)Collapse )
( The Occult Imagination in Britain, 1875-1947 (eds. Christine Ferguson and Andrew Radford, 2019/#23)Collapse )
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I just dropped Brian Aldiss' Dracula Unbound; it has some of the elements Aldiss was a master of — deep time, dreadful landscapes, quiet biological horror — but his characters and handling of interpersonal relationships, at least in this novel, are unpleasant in a way that's not about unpleasant characters, but rather the author's unpleasant view of the world (nothing monstrous, this isn't Gor — it's mostly the typical hard-eyed tall strong individualistic rich male genius with the admiring young feisty women and so on, sort of lateish Heinlein, but as I grow older I'm less patient with these things).
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[Outside the cut to protect the spoiler alert.] An important exception, and wildly enjoyable story, is Skywalker of Earth. It's not about Star Wars, but ( setting spoilersCollapse )
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[Outside the cut to protect the spoiler alert.] An important exception, and wildly enjoyable story, is Skywalker of Earth. It's not about Star Wars, but ( setting spoilersCollapse )
( Baroque Science (Ofer Gal and Raz Chen-Morris, 2019/#2)Collapse )
( Engineering the Eternal City: Infrastructure, Topography, and the Culture of Knowledge in Late Sixteenth-Century Rome (Pamela O. Long, 2019/#3)Collapse )
( Petrarch's War: Florence and the Black Death in Context (William Caferro, 2019/#4)Collapse )
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