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Dancing the Entropic Two-Step

Until the End of Time: Mind, Matter, and Our Search for Meaning in an Evolving Universe by Brian Greene

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Although my main interests have always been history, languages, and cultural studies, I somehow also developed a love of astronomy early on. Due to my lack of interest in maths, chemistry, and physics in every other aspect than cosmology, I was however satisfied with reading popular science books about the universe and following the scientific progress in a very casual way. About 15 years ago, I read The Elegant Universe, in which the physicist and string theorist Brian Greene explains string theory in as accessible […]

“What yesterday was sure footing is now unstable ground.”

Doggerland by Ben Smith

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On an off-shore windfarm in the North Sea, the Boy, who no longer is a boy, and the Old Man, who already worked with the Boy’s father before he disappeared, are tasked with the upkeep of the wind turbines while living on a maintenance rig. Their relationship is plagued by mistrust and resentment, but they need each other desperately; the work is not only dull and repetitive, but ultimately futile as the turbines are slowly corroding more and more, land has become a foreign concept […]

“Get out there and leave some boot prints – and don’t forget to bring home some good souvenirs!”

Notes From Small Planets by Nate Crowley

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A few years ago, humanity gained access to a few hundred different planets that anyone interested could travel to, but only for a short time, before the access vanished again. Of course, a writer visited these exotic places and wrote a guide book, which is really all that has remained of the small worlds of which each one corresponds to a subgenre of fantasy or science fiction, whether its concerned with pirates, superheroes, and space adventurers, or wizards and barbarians. Not all subgenres, however, have […]

End of Days

The Rat by Günter Grass

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An old man and the rat he received as a Christmas present become engaged in a dialogue on the future of humanity. The rat draws up visions in which mankind is wiped out in a nuclear war while the rats survive and build a new civilization. The man weaves stories, too, fairy tale characters who try to save the forest, five women who cross the Baltic Sea on a boat on which no men are allowed, the tale of a painter who is a forger, […]

Dumb and Bloated

The Graft by Martina Cole

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Nick Leary, a rich businessman who makes most of his money with shady deals and who doesn’t shrink back from using violence to get what he wants, is one night woken by strange noises in his home. When he discovers an intruder with a gun he attacks him with a baseball bat. The intruder is discovered to be a local teen and small-time criminal who dies a few days later in the hospital. This is such a dumb book that I can hardly believe it. […]



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