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Reflections on the Revolution in Europe by Ralf Dahrendorf  is a book; Goodreads starts off   The fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989 effective...

I have a (crudely ranked) sci-fi books list ; and an "other" list . This I one find myself in need of: simply a list of books rea...

Scifi tosh of my least favourite genre, a self-conscious 2 attempt to be a proper book. By Ben Bova; see-also The Exiles Trilogy which I ...

I was in Wales last weekend with the 4C's in the Rucksack Club hut in the Llanberis pass - more on that anon - and passing by Joe Brown...

Happy New Year. Having lost my beloved Boston Adizero 9's to old age, mountain walking and erging, themselves replacements for the 8...

Not Even Wrong by Peter Woit  (damn! That is one determinedly old-skool website) is about The Failure of String Theory and the Search for U...

Wiki tells me that  Nettle & Bone is a 2022 fantasy novel by Ursula Vernon, writing as T. Kingfisher. The novel has been described as ...