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{4.5/5} “W’harton paused. ‘I think I parse your meaning. My kin had plans for me, too. But Plexis is a mix of strange and familiar.’ He upped his head back, his rounded tongue licking the last droplets of stew from the bowl. ‘You might find a home there yet.’” (from “The Stars Do Not Dream” […]
{4/5} “A man must learn to trust before he can be trusted.” The Great Wall, released in 2019 William and Tovar are in China, looking for the black powder that they have heard of but not seen. They are attacked by a creature — William cuts off its arm with his sword and it falls […]
{4.5/5} “A Rozzum always completes its task.” The Wild Robot, released in 2024 When a Rozzum robot wakes up all it wants to do is help people. But there are no people around, only animals. When it gets struck by lightning, it finds raccoons playing with a bunch of its body parts. When it finds […]
{5/5} “I am standing here as living proof that people can change. Who you were up until this very moment is not who you have to be going forward.” The Rookie season 4, aired in 2021-22 La Fiera has escaped custody and her people kidnapped Angela from her own wedding and killed Jackson. In order […]
Connor Trinneer and Dominic Keating have been expertly interviewing people from Star Trek — mostly actors, but occasionally people from behind the scenes. The D-Con Chamber is where people went to get decontaminated in Enterprise, the show they were on where they played Trip and Malcolm. They previously had a channel called Shuttlepod Show. Here’s […]
{5/5} “These people are all your neighbours. Now, some are neighbours with problems who do stupid things, crazy things, selfish things, but they’re just people.” The Rookie season 3, aired in 2021 John has been taken into custody for shooting Detective Armstrong and conspiring with the Derian crime family — Armstrong is trying to frame […]
Here’s a channel called Good News that has a monthly roundup of good news. There are good things happening around the world, and we don’t hear about them often enough. From removing dams to protecting marine environments, here are the top environmental stories of 2024: The 10 Biggest Environmental Wins of 2024 The Sahara Desert […]
Here are all of Julie E. Czerneda’s books in The Clan Chronicles. If she writes any more, I will read them. The Trade Pact A Thousand Words for Stranger 1997 -> 4.5/5 Ties of Power 1999 -> 4.5/5 To Trade the Stars 2002 -> 4.5/5 Stratification Reap the Wild Wind 2007 -> 4.5/5 Riders of […]
{4.5/5} “If our new crewman has taught us anything today… it is that logic without empathy is illogical.” Star Trek: Strange New Worlds — The Scorpius Run by Ryan Parrott & Mike Johnson, published in 2024 While in the region known as the Scorpion, Captain Pike and the Enterprise respond to a distress call. They […]
{4.5/5} “AllThereIs did not forget, nor forgive. There were ‘entities’ within it, Sira’d warned, who reacted to threat. When the Hoveny breached their home with devices designed to feed from its energy, those entities responded. Their defense had ended the vast Hoveny Concentrix.” To Guard Against the Dark by Julie E. Czerneda, published in 2017 […]