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Wednesday, 21 February 2024

The Arid Lands themes: A vast engineering project

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In the 1920s the German architect Herman Sorgel came up with the concept for a vast Engineering project to build a hydroelectric dam across ...
Monday, 12 February 2024

Review: Not By Sea by Paul Weston

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The Book The brief respite of the Peace of Amiens is over, and Britain is once again at war with France. Napoléon knows that if he is to win...
Monday, 5 February 2024

Guest Post by Lydia Baker: Writing an apocalyptic world and the theme of family

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 Writing an apocalyptic world and the theme of family Thank you so much for having me on your blog, Kate. My sci-fi novel, AVA, takes place ...
Thursday, 25 January 2024

The Arid Lands themes: Climate effects of a dried up sea.

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As I have mentioned in a previous post, 6 million years ago (Ma) the Mediterranean Sea entered a phase of desiccation when it became cut off...
Monday, 15 January 2024

Review: Hot Ash and the Oasis Defect by Philip Wyeth

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The Book Welcome to 2045. Automation has freed humanity from the drudgery and limitations of blue-collar labor. For twenty years, a remarkab...
Wednesday, 3 January 2024

The Arid Lands themes: The Messinian Salinity Crisis

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My newly released SF novel, The Arid Lands is set some 600 years from now, in an alternate future when the Mediterranean has almost complete...
Thursday, 21 December 2023

Review: Zen Dynamics – Putting Buddhist theory into practice by Andrew May

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The Book Buddhism can sometimes come across a s abstract and philosophical, but it has a strongly practical side too – and that’s what this ...
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