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Wednesday, February 28, 2018

Book Review: Nemesis (2016) Alex Lamb

Nemesis (2016)  Alex Lamb

The most be a thousand books with this title.  Sci Fi, fantasy, fiction, and non-fiction.  Come on!  Can’t we do a little better?  Anyway.  Part 2 of the Roboteer (I do like that title even though it is stolen from a Disney movie) Trilogy.  Will Kuno-Monet  finished the Roboteer as the most powerful man alive infected with smart cells given him by the Transcended.  Well he is finding living as the super being in a world of not super beings is not so easy. He makes his wife Rachel so frustrated that she gets lost exploring the edge of the galaxy.  Mark Ruiz is a new character - a pseudo-son to Will who is a “super” Roboteer.  A strong willed pilot who gets assigned to help lead a mission to explore a possible new alien contact.  Will is also on the mission.  Unfortunately, all is not as it seems and the whole thing is a ploy to destroy Earth and allow Galatea to rule.  Of course, the whole thing backfires and a real alien menace is released.  Think the “Borg” only they are called the Photurions.   Their home-world is a world of tubular structures called “Snake Pit”.   The key to salvation (maybe) is control of this world.  Watch out for Anne Ludec.


Alex Lamb writes long detailed books.  I love it.  It makes the scenes very real to me.  Others might find it a burden and too slow. I think this is similar to Covey’s Expanse series and is ripe for development.   

Final Jeopardy 2-28-2018

February 28, 2018

Final Jeopardy Category:

Women in Mythology

Final Jeopardy Clue:

Poet & translator Anne Carson addresses her: “Your name in Greek means something like ‘against birth'”

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Final Jeopardy Answer / Question:


Antigone

Tuesday, February 27, 2018

Final Jeopardy 2-27-2018

February 27, 2018

Final Jeopardy Category:

Americana

Final Jeopardy Clue:

A 1931 story in the New Yorker said this “weighs 600,000,000 pounds (&)…contains 37,000,000 cubic feet”

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Final Jeopardy Answer / Question:


Empire State Building

Friday, February 23, 2018

Final Jeopardy 2-23-2018

Final Jeopardy Category:

Modern Words

Final Jeopardy Clue:

In 1994 Wired Magazine described this 4-letter word as an idea leaping “from mind to mind…as viruses leap from body to body”

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Final Jeopardy Answer / Question:


Meme

Wednesday, February 21, 2018

Final Jeopardy 2-21-2018

February 21, 2018

Final Jeopardy Category:

WWI

Final Jeopardy Clue:

Site of an arduous WWI campaign, this town on the Dardanelles gets its name from the Greek for “beautiful city”

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Final Jeopardy Answer / Question:


Gallipoli