6/30/2023 0 Comments The Ghost Brigades by John Scalzi![]() ![]() But when the memory transplant appears to fail, Jared is given to the Ghost Brigades.Īt first, Jared is a perfect soldier, but as Boutin's memories slowly surface, Jared begins to intuit the reason's for Boutin's betrayal. Jared Dirac is the only human who can provide answers-a superhuman hybrid, created from Boutin's DNA, Jared's brain should be able to access Boutin's electronic memories. To prevail, the CDF must find out why Boutin did what he did. Their linchpin: the turncoat military scientist Charles Boutin, who knows the CDF's biggest military secrets. Three races that humans have clashed with before have allied to halt our expansion into space. ![]() The universe is a dangerous place for humanity-and it's about to become far more dangerous. They're young, they're fast and strong, and they're totally without normal human qualms. The Ghost Brigades are the Special Forces of the Colonial Defense Forces, elite troops created from the DNA of the dead and turned into the perfect soldiers for the CDF's toughest operations. John Scalzi's eagerly anticipated sequel to the extraordinary Old Man's War ![]()
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6/30/2023 0 Comments Anarchy state![]() ![]() ![]() But in either case the voyage opens up new intellectual territory. The mappings which such an exploration yields may be highly accurate or in need of radical revision. Such projects are explorations, intellectual voyages which reveal previously unchartered ideas, arguments, and theses. Robert Nozick describes his Anarchy, State and Utopia as, "a philosophical exploration of issues, many fascinating in their own right, which arise and interconnect when we consider individual rights and the state." Such explorations are to be contrasted with political tracts-but what makes the difference? Is a philosophical exploration merely what gets written when an aspiring author is too uncertain about his views to write a tract or manifesto? No, there is more to be said about philosophical explorations than this. Anarchy, State and Utopia, by Robert Nozick, New York: Basic Books, 1974, 367 pp., $12.95. ![]() 6/30/2023 0 Comments Ovid book![]() The first five books, which include such well-known stories as Apollo and Daphane, Diana and Actaeon, and Narcissus and Echo, deal especially with the relationship between human beings and the gods. Unlike other epic poems, which concern wars and heroism, the Metamorphoses centers on ordinary human beings, women as well as men, who live in a world of continuous change. In the extensive notes that follow the text, Anderson offers both useful summaries of the stories and detailed line-by-line comments. The Latin text of the five books is Anderson’s own edition, based on years of study of the surviving manuscripts. Anderson provides essential background information, discussing Ovid’s life, the reception of the Metamorphoses during Ovid’s day and after, and the poem’s central issues. ![]() ![]() In his introduction to the volume, editor William S. ![]() This volume provides the Latin text of the first five books of the poem and the most detailed commentary available in English for these books. One of the most influential and popular works in all literature, Ovid’s Metamorphoses is a weaving-together of classical myths, extending in time from the creation of the world to the death of Julius Caesar. ![]() 6/30/2023 0 Comments Angelfall series![]() ![]() While trying to get her family to a safer place, Penryn encounters a group of angels fighting each other, with five against one. ![]() In “The World After” as Penryn calls it, rival gangs and apocalypse cults control goods and services, and the streets are dangerous, especially for the occasional angel who gets caught there and attacked for body parts that can be sold or traded. The books are narrated by Penryn Young, 17, who may have been a typical California girl in “The World Before,” but who now is trying to ensure the survival of her remaining family – seven-year-old Paige, who is a paraplegic, and their paranoid-schizophrenic mother. ![]() (Eventually we find out why that happened.) A whole slew of angels has come to Earth and triggered an apocalypse. Instead of the bizarre trope often used in YA books that has an angel or two coming to Earth and going to high school, this one begins quite differently. Indeed, it was entertaining enough that I avidly raced through all three books. ![]() Like many other readers, I felt burned out by the onslaught of copycat young adult dystopias, fantasies, and paranormal romances, but I heard this series was exceptionally good, so I decided to plunge back into the genre. ![]() |