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A return to the old kingdom

Terciel & Elinor by Garth Nix

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Way back in 1995 Garth Nix created an intriguing world with his book Sabriel. A world in which a kingdom of magic was separated from a more mundane land (Ancelstierre) that felt like 1930’s England, and in that magic kingdom necromancers raised the dead and risked the world to bring back an ancient evil. Fighting against this were the Abhorsen, a family of good necromancers whose job it was to return the undead to the afterlife. It was a great and rich world that was […]

AI: Not scary in the way you think

You look like a thing and I love you by Janelle Shane

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You say AI and people immediately start thinking about Skynet, The Matrix, or HAL 9000. We have been programmed by decades of literature and film to associate the concept of AI with human like intelligence and thought processes that sees these creations go rogue and decide to “kill all humans”. Probably Boston Dynamics scary dancing robots and “dogs” are not helping here either! But as this book shows the reality is closer to the kind of decisions made in “I Robot” where a decision is […]

Magical Teenager – just a bit more contemporary than Harry

What Abigail Did That Summer by Ben Aaronovitch

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This new novella in the Rivers of London series by Ben Aaronovitch covers events that happened in summer 2013 when his primary protagonist Peter Grant was off solving the case of a missing child in Herefordshire (The Hanging Tree). During that summer we follow Peter’s cousin Abigail Kamara in London as teenagers go missing around Hampstead Heath and then turn up later missing their memories. At this point Abigail is still not formally attached to “The Folly”, but she has already been exposed to the […]

Supporting restaurants with some DIY

Chefs at Home by 54 leading chefs

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The Coronavirus lockdowns haven’t been easy to deal with for those in the hospitality sector. In the last year a lot of restaurants and pubs have had to try new things like delivery, food boxes, and many have also supported public services by preparing food for hospitals etc. And still it’s been hard for many in the industry and the charity Hospitality Action is there to support those in need in the sector. This cookbook is one of the things they’ve produced to help and […]

Fixing space with any available tool

The Unorthodox Engineers by Colin Kapp

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I grew up in a home where if the book was on a bookshelf then I could read it, regardless of my age and the alleged reading age of the book. Given my parent’s taste in books this meant I grew up with Isaac Asimov, Harry Harrison, and many other classic SF authors. What this meant was that on days off school feeling ill I’d curl up under a blanket with something like an old “New Writings in SF” and that meant I was introduced […]

Even more Murderbot

Network Effect by Martha Wells

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I’d like to apologise to Martha Wells for not getting around to reading this sooner. It’s no reflection on the book, which is excellent, just a consequence of COVID blues meaning I’m still struggling to read novels. This is the first full length novel featuring everyone’s favourite introverted and socially anxious cyborg (SecUnit) Murderbot as they navigate what it means to be free to choose your own path. Murderbot is now almost a family member to their former client Mensah on the colony of Preservation. […]



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