Second paragraph of third chapter:We're silent as we trudge through the grasses, Sung-Soo exhausted and malnourished, Mack and I trapped in our own little spirals of guilt and dread. He's taking us on a route that makes it far less likely we'll be spotted, but there's still a chance. He's probably trying to work out what to tell everyone else and buying time to figure that out at his own pace.First of the Planetfall series, which was up for the Best Series Hugo this year. I have previously bounced off the third and fourth of the books, ranking them last ...
Resistance is a part of being human (although others may not agree): – The refusal to accept or comply with something; the attempt to prevent something by argument, action or force; the action of opposing, withstanding or striving against Resistance is a physical thing (even if unseen or unobserved): – The impeding, slowing or stopping effect exerted by one material thing [...]
Having decided that I'll review the winners of the Tiptree, BSFA and Clarke Awards of a give year together, the turn of the century provided me with a massive reading project. I think I started Wild Life on 17 October, and finished Perdido Street Station on 23 December. Together they are 2249 pages in length. Ash: A Secret History and Perdido Street Station were on all three shortlists/final ballots. Revelation Space, by Alastair Reynolds, was on both the Clarke and BSFA lists. Midnight Robber, by Nalo Hopkinson, was on the Tiptree shortlist and also the Hugo and Nebula final ballots. ...
New plans have been submitted by Morris Property for the former Budgens site. They are the same in principle as the previous plans, with two retail units on the ground floor and nineteen apartments above with communal and private terraces. There have been several changes in design. The building will of a modern design throughout using traditional materials over a steel frame with high levels of thermal efficiency. This design is a considerable improvement on the unused Budgens store. It will also boost trade in the Galdeford Tower area. As always, these plans will need to be studied in detail. ...
Sat, 12:13: RT @SamuelMarcLowe: My hot take is that while, yes, the EU-UK trade deal has been negotiated in record time, it could quite easily have bee... Sat, 12:15: RT @alexvtunzelmann: I took a day off yesterday but today I would like to say: fuck off https://t.co/3cpQvbkGk2 Sat, 15:06: What lies in store for next year? 2021 as seen by twentieth century science fiction: https://t.co/jJjSB9msme Sat, 21:44: Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade https://t.co/eTEwm2tdrj Sun, 09:30: Whoniversaries 27 December: Christopher Benjamin, Paul Joyce https://t.co/kGoi8PKsmP Sun, 10:45: RT @davidallengreen: Perhaps the most significant news today The natural consequence of Brexit probably ...
The one enduring trend of the last four and a half years is the willingness of the Labour Party to prop up the Tories in their pursuit of Brexit, even to the extent that Keir Starmer is prepared to abandon the six tests he laid down in March 2017, and vote for Boris Johnson's deal anyway, even though the 1200 word document fails every one of them. It is little wonder that the Labour Leader is facing a revolt from Labour frontbenchers over his decision to back the government's Brexit trade deal. The Guardian reports Starmer has been warned that ...
No council by-elections this week either on the traditional Thursday on an unconventional different day. So here's a suggestion for something useful and quick you can do instead.
i) births and deaths 27 December 1934: birth of Christopher Benjamin, who played Sir Keith Gold in Inferno (Third Doctor, 1970), Henry Gordon Jago in The Talons of Weng-Chiang (Fourth Doctor, 1977) and the Big Finish Jago and Litefoot stories, and Colonel Hugh Curbishley in The Unicorn and the Wasp (Tenth Doctor, 2008) as well as Tardelli in the 2008 Eighth Doctor audio Grand Theft Cosmos. 27 December 1940: birth of Paul Joyce, who was the director of Warrior's Gate (Fourth Doctor, 1981) ii) broadcast anniversaries None. This is the last such day in the calendar year (I was wrong ...
As of yesterday, Dundee entered Coronavirus Protection Level 4. The City Council has a useful summary of the guidance which you can read here.
