...you will walk the earth with your eyes turned skyward; for there you have been, and there you long to return. - Leonardo da Vinci.
This was a prezzie from my paragliding hubling, and does beautifully evoke the feeling of free flight (on a different planet mind you), which i have so far only done as a tandem passenger, but one day i shall learn too.
Posted by TielDust
by a canadian, up for the Booker-Mann prize.
I started reading it in a book store and couldn't put it down.
It is about Toronto. And about photography. and more.
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Posted by swamprose
25th Sep 2007, 07:09
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Does for sex and sexuality what The Blind Watchmaker did for Darwinism.
Posted by Alfie
by Michael Pollan. The Apple, Tulip, Marijuana and the Potato. An old
favourite. Check out his most recent book, 'The Ominvore's Dilemna. Nice
writer, nice sense of humour. wish he ran the world.
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Posted by swamprose
1st Sep 2007, 03:14
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(Not *our* Richard Morgan :D )
This book reads like a world clarification for morgans books; broken angels, altered carbon and woken furies. Those are wonderful books, hard as bitten steel nails with small platinum nuggets of insight into the bleaker aspects of the human condition, all woven into a well realised future of artificial humans, galaxy wide colonisation and gritty as sand in the eye close combat warfare.
Black man is set a good 200 years before the 'takeshi kovaks' novels, a great imagined look at an america of 100 years hence in an earlier takeshi universe, and a dark and hard scifi romp.
There are plenty of people who think 'scifi just isn't for me' after having read an Asimov book 15 years ago. The brilliant writing and human insight in this book might change their minds, just tell them your loaning them a hardboiled detective novel :)
12th Aug 2007, 17:41
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Immensely sweet and funny, google for the web comic
Posted by Alfie
2nd Aug 2007, 20:08
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