Tag: John Scalzi

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A Quantum of Snow

Washington DC is known for its political gridlock.  It also suffers from snow-induced gridlock and it doesn’t take much of the fluffy white stuff to shut things down.  Today is one of those days, when a lightly drifting stream of snow has shut down offices, schools and induced a slightly panicked style of driving among the local denizens. I just finished reading John Scalzi’s latest … Continue reading A Quantum of Snow

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Fiction Reading This Summer

I read a bunch of Terry Pratchett’s Discworld novels this summer, not really in order though.  It’s just a wonderful series, funny, but a coherent enough fantasy world that you care about the stories and the characters.  I wish I’d had these to read when I was a kid. I’ve also been reading John Scalzi’s novels lately.  He’s a fairly “lite-science” science fiction writer and pretty efficient at telling … Continue reading Fiction Reading This Summer

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