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London, 1890. 221B Baker St. A fine art dealer named Edmund Carstairs visits Sherlock Holmes and Dr John Watson to …
From the Introduction...
It is almost impossible to overstate the scale of Faraday and Maxwell's achievement in bringing the concept …
In the far future, 20th century texts are preserved in a monastery, as "sacred books". The monks preserve for centuries …
From the Publisher: Paul Dirac was among the great scientific geniuses of the modern age. …
Goo bio of an otherwise unknown pioneer in quantum physics.
NB! This is not Ancilliary Justice, but a crititical companion.
This book argues that Ann …
Heavy going at first due to vocabulary and nonlinearity, but great worldbuilding. The plot comes to a very satisfying conclusion while still laying good groundwork for the next book in the series.
In the late seventeenth century, chaos and disease reigned. Streets overflowed with filth and the murder rate was five times …
Ensign Andrew Dahl has just been assigned to the Universal Union Capital Ship Intrepid, flagship of the Universal Union since …
Here there be dragons...and th denizens of Ankh-Morpork wish one huge firebreather would return from whence it came. Long believed …
The Sheep Look Up is a science fiction novel by British author John Brunner, first published in 1972. The novel …
Smolin is taking on all of modern physics in this book. His core assertion is that the laws of physics are not timeless, and that these laws both incorporate, and also evolve over, time.
This is a much more difficult read then Smolin's previous book "The Trouble with Physics", and some of the arguments seem circular. However, stick with it, as he makes several thought-provoking points towards the end of the book, when his arguments start to come together.
Set among London's dark and tangled streets after the money-crash , Zero History is a thriller about the hidden webs …
The second novel in Aaronovitch's Peter Grant series takes the police constable cum apprentice magician into Soho and the world …
