the skys dark labyrinth by stuart clarke the first of a trilogy about 17th century science this vook tells the story of kepler and galileo better on the chapters wih kepler played out against the events leading up to the thirty years war with astrology obessed emperors, religious hatreds and astronomical egos, galileo less interesting as played out like bad brecht
dracula's guest A Connoisseur's Collection of Victorian Vampire Stories more one trick pony tales of vampires but much better the victorian vampire at one seiht victorian ghost stories stories byron , varney the vampire, the vampire angel that is the clarimonda seductress is often found in these pages sucking her lover dry even space for vampire scientific papers and transylvania superstitions some great stories all good
the caspian gates book 4 of harry sidebottom series how can he still keep ballista going ?
only brief appearance of the vengeful ghost of the murdered emperor maximinius thrax saying his usual unresolved promise then totally disappearing along with ballista reminding his boon companions of adventures from the first three books more of a rebooted sandal here as ballista finds himself in the conspiracies of a petty dynasty in far colchis and ballista woos a barbarian princess in scenes using prose not out of place in ERB john carter of mars
the inclusion of a new character called mastabates ( i kid you not!) if only to see if any readers are still awake by page 200 roll on book 5 ballista and the crab with the golden claws
Our Most Important Discoveries, Selected by Our Greatest Minds by jheni osman or if oyu cannot get our greatest minds goet some scientists who are also TV presenters a good gerneral reader on all aspects of sceince from space to technolology and the natural world but not realy deep a TV show in print
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