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Eivind (like the Terrible)

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I like big books and I cannot lie

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Agnes Ravatn: Doggerland (EBook, Norwegian language, 2025, Samlaget)

I den mektige Høst-familien har forlagsverksemd vore livsgrunnlaget i generasjonar. No er det tid for …

«Matias», seier eg, utan at han ser opp. «Matias, her har det levd dinosaurar, altså!»

Det står ingenting om det på skiltet, men sidan desse berga faktisk er frå urtida, burde det i prinsippet kunne inkludere dinosaurar. Matias si interesse for dinosaurar var uansett ein kortvarig og overflatisk affære. Eg hadde med misunning og håp sett korleis dei andre i barnehagen, utan noko utprega lovande intellekt så vidt eg kunne bedømme, hadde fordjupa seg i denne evig tiltrekkande materien frå krit- og juratida. Memorert ei uendeleg rekke lange, avanserte spesifikasjonar, vengespenn og toppfart. Korleis dei med eit halvt auge kunne skilje mellom ein diplodocus og ein brachiosaurus, og eg hadde tenkt at sidan Matias er slikt eit inneslutta, forsiktig barn, så burde han nettopp vere typen til å dykke ned på den slags djupner av spesialisert kunnskap. Eg hadde kjøpt tjukke, rikt illustrerte bøker til han, kostbare figurar i tysk kvalitetsplast, men det hadde ikkje resultert i noko.

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Kelly Weinersmith, Zach Weinersmith: A City on Mars (Hardcover, 2023)

Earth is not well. The promise of starting life anew somewhere far, far away - …

Eye opening

I knew lunar regolith is on par or worse than asbestos, and I knew Mars don't have a magnetosphere, making radiation as bad as in space. What I didn't know is that Martian soil is actually toxic to both animal and plant life, that the bags of astronaut feces on the Moon are considered US property, that one of the reasons the US refuses to sign the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea is because it can have an impact on extra-terrestrial mining.

Neither was I aware the the lower end population limit to start a successful Martian colony is in the six digits. And even then the colonist straight up needs to embrace eugenics in order to make the colony survive beyond the first few generations.

All in all a very interesting and thought provoking read that makes a compelling argument that space settlements …

Thomas Pynchon: Vineland (EBook, English æ language) No rating

"Later than usual one summer morning in 1984 . . ." On California's fog-hung North …

"Then again, it's the whole Reagan program, isn't it — dismantle the New Deal, reverse the effects of World War II, restore fascism at home and around the world, flee into the past, can't you feel it, all the dangerous, childish stupidity — 'I don't like the way it came out, I want it to be my way.' If the President can act like that, why not Brock?"

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Thomas Pynchon: Vineland (EBook, English æ language) No rating

"Later than usual one summer morning in 1984 . . ." On California's fog-hung North …

Described in Aggro World as "a sort of Esalen Institute for lady asskickers," the mountainside retreat of the Sisterhood of Kunoichi Attentives stood on a promontory dappled in light and dark California greens above a small valley, only a couple of ridgelines from the SP tracks, final ascent being over dirt roads vexing enough to those who arrived in times of mud, and so deeply rutted when the season was dry that many an unwary seeker was brought to a high-centered pause out in this oil painting of a landscape, wheels spinning in empty air, creatures of the hillside only just interrupting grazing or predation to notice.

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