![]() ![]() It makes me think, it makes me feel, and it makes me appreciate the more imperfect of the human emotions, the issues we are dealing with in one way or another on daily basis but disguised in a Sci-Fi form. However, of all of those, The Vorkosigan Saga is the one that I have the most tenderness for. I know I have several series of books which I love and are a must read for me, but most of them are more because the story lines are not finished, and the worlds are marvelous, and the writing is great, and I really enjoy the characters. Once again I am going to sound like a fan-girl, but I can't help it! This series has stolen my heart. To qualify, you only have to be great once, you know. ".“All the geniuses I ever met were so just part of the time. A buddy read with Evgeny and Maria, because we cannot stop the Forward Momentum!!! ![]()
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Grassroots teams from the black community, the white community, and the LGBQ community wipe out the governing elites and divvy up the formerly united states to create three antonymous homelands where each group can hold sway. In a general sense, what is Adjustment Day about?Īdjustment Day is a wish fulfillment fantasy aimed at every race separatist, black or white, and every LGBT activist who’s dreamed of a homeland where they form the dominant culture. 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Neuware - Set in the Nebraska landscape in a community evocative of Cather's own (Red Cloud), My Ántonia tells the story of Ántonia Shimerda, a Bohemian immigrant, and Jim Burden, who like Cather was uprooted from Virginia to the Nebraska prairie. ![]() ![]() It was madness for one to think the other might be a communist spy, bent on subverting Western values and the power of the free world.īut Philby was secretly betraying his friend. The two men had gone to the same schools, belonged to the same exclusive clubs, grown close through the crucible of wartime intelligence work and long nights of drink and revelry. And nobody thought he knew Philby like Nicholas Elliott, Philby’s best friend and fellow officer in MI6. 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