A reader of many things in Manitoba, Canada. You can find me on Mastodon at friesen5000@mstdn.ca
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The Earth teems with sights and textures, sounds and vibrations, smells and tastes, electric and magnetic fields. But every animal …
Armageddon only happens once, you know. They don't let you go around again until you get it right.
According …
For readers of The Secret Life of Trees and Tom Vanderbilt’s Traffic, a positive forecast …
Worth reading, but not as good as it could have been. Some parts could have used more attention and detail, while others (especially the sometimes lengthy descriptions of people and places the author visited while writing) could have used less.
Joining the ranks of popular science classics like The Botany of Desire and The Selfish Gene, a groundbreaking, wondrously informative, …
Fans of Douglas Adams and P. G. Wodehouse will love visiting Jasper Fforde's Great Britain, circa 1985, when time travel …
Welcome to Chromatacia, where for as long as anyone can remember society has been ruled by a Colortocracy. Social hierachy …
Follows the 101st Airbone as it drops into Normandy on D-Day and fights its way through Europe to the end …
'Hey, you sass that hoopy Ford Prefect? There's a frood who really knows where his towel is.' (Sass: know, be …
