Catégorie : ils ont aimé
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Lockstep
Category: Novel Page count: 351 Language: English Author: Karl Schroeder Publisher: Tor Year of publication: 2014 ISBN: 978-0-7653-3726-9 Toby McGonigal wakes up from hibernation and apparently a whole lot of time has passed by and there are whole civilizations based upon hibernation technologies first pioneered by his family. These societies live in lockstep, harvesting resources…
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Demimonde: interview with Justin Achilli
Demimonde is an urban fantasy novel by Justin Achilli, a game designer best known for his contributions to the Vampire roleplaying games by White Wolf. I read some time ago the Clan Novel Saga, a series of intertwined stories by a collective of authors using the setting of Vampire: The Masquerade. I did like Justin…
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Amortals
Category: Novel Number of pages: 416 Language: English Author(s): Matt Forbeck Publisher: Angry Robot Year of publication: 2010 (this edition 2011) ISBN: 978-0-85766-002-2 In a not so distant future, very rich people and irreplaceable employees regularly save their memories in a computer. When they die, they wake up in a new and young cloned body.…
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The Burning Life
Category: Science-fiction novel Page count: 330 Language: English Author(s): Hjalti Daníelsson Publisher: Gollancz (Orion Publishing Group) Year of publication: 2010 ISBN: 978-0-575-09017-0 In a very distant future, human civilizations have emerged from an age of darkness in the star cluster known as New Eden. The conflicts between them are resolved in space battles daily led…
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They meet the world every night
I have been reading taxi blogs for a few years now. Taxi drivers have many stories to tell; each and every day or night, they cruise in the city, meeting complete strangers and watching bemusing events take place. Here are the five blogs I used to read the most, but there are many more to…