But there is so much more to this multi-faceted story. On the surface you have the rehabilitation of this lost girl, Lilly. However, underneath this easily readable tale there is a much deeper story unfolding, where the author delves further into a much more eternal plane. For as Lilly struggles to understand her personal history and works towards physical recovery, she also has an otherworldly experience where she visits the utter beginning of everything.

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Depending on who you're buying for, this can vary. A good place to start is by looking at some of our Christmas gift guides, including: Creating deep, resonating characters is not Stephenson’s strong point, though they are interesting people who are existing in this spectacular set of circumstances that showcases how creative a writer can be and still stay within the bounds of known science. This is an epic, post-apocalyptic book made more scary because there is no place in the shattered remains of humanity for people like me. The first book is a very much on-trend apocalyptic-event novel. An enigmatic something causes the moon to blow apart into 7 huge chunks. Since Neal Stephenson covered it at the talk I saw him give recently, I'm going to say he doesn't think it'd be too much of a spoiler to reveal that those seven chunks are soon predicted to keep banging up against each other in orbit until they eventually become a devastating hail of meteorites that are going to transform the Earth into a very, very unpleasant place to be for the foreseeable future. Lorna soon gets involved with the woman in charge of the house and the housekeeper. She promises to bring more clients by publishing an article revolving around the house’s history and the family legacy. Little did Lorna know that her vague memories of the old Cornwell house link her directly to the house’s past and could possibly alter her future. I couldn’t connect with this story. I was bored and had to keep telling myself I requested to read this book as the summery makes it sound like a fun read.Ghosts are everywhere, and not just the ghost of Momma in the woods, however ghosts of us as well, what we once were like in those long summers. Pingers: Descendants of those who survived the Hard Rain in underwater caverns aboard submarines. Initially selectively bred for confined spaces, they started selectively breeding to survive underwater after the "spacers" had restored water on Earth via bombardment by comets. Just like Delia Owens gives vivid descriptions of the forest such that it almost becomes a character in her novel Where the Crawdads Sing, Eve Chase does give vivid descriptions of the sights, sounds, animals, and textures making the forest come alive in its own right. The Daughters of Foxcote Manor” is the third stand alone novel and was released in 2020. Outside an isolated manor house in an idyllic wood, one baby girl is discovered. This inflatable harbinger has been deployed on the ISS for several years - image from Smithsonian Magazine

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How good old tribalism poisons a technologically highly developed future space population, the results of it, the psychological and sociological effects of long time living in space environments, and how a very far future could look like, make it one of the most detailed and astonishing future visions, a bit similar to Kim Stanley Robinson´s work Red Mars. Because usually, there is much more action in such genre works, fractions, aliens, war, space battles, etc., but by just focusing on the key elements, Stephenson wants to explore, it gets much denser than the conventional sci-fi. Having said that, I found it hard after starting over upon the commencement of part 2 to really care about the new characters and feel connected to them. It was interesting in the sense that they were descendants of the characters (blue good! red bad!) I knew and loved, but not gripping in an emotional sense to have much investment into what happened to them as long as red was utterly destroyed and humiliated into obliteration and I hope they all die horrible deaths and I hate Julia. I guess that goes for the second story in general. It was wonderful and necessary to experience the outcomes of what culminated at the end of part one. And I can't really say what would have been a better way to give us that experience. But I don't know if the story we were given was the best way. I'm not sure the average reader would enjoy this book but I'd certainly recommend it to fans of 'hard' science fiction. In any case, this book could definitely generate lots of intelligent, engaging conversations at book clubs, dinner tables, and parties. Enjoy the fantastic classic collection of The Large Family in this amazing kids' picture book bundle! With two copies of each popular classic, this is the perfect companion for storytime together!

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I'm not quite sure how I feel about this book. The premise is fascinating, and the author - who clearly did a phenomenal amount of research - seems to cover every aspect of what's required to make a successful space habitat. The details of constructing the habitat, however, are overly long, detailed, and tedious. For me, the human interactions in the habitat are more interesting. Using the ice comet, the remaining third of the Cloud Ark and the ISS (now dubbed Endurance) take three years to reach the Cleft, a Grand Canyon–sized crevasse on the now-exposed iron core of the Moon. By this time, Flaherty's Swarm has been decimated, resorting to cannibalism to survive, while fallout from Probst's ship has killed most of Endurance 's crew. The 11 Swarm survivors, led by a woman named Aïda, negotiate reuniting the Swarm with Endurance. However, fearing ostracism by the crew, Aïda starts a battle for control of Endurance that fails, but reduces the population even further. Alexander, Niall (23 January 2015). " Seveneves of Neal Stephenson". Tor.com . Retrieved 17 May 2015. But Walter Harrington had warned Rita if she did not report to him about his wife’s mental and physical wellbeing, he would fire her and have someone else replace her. For a morally upright Rita, she’d probably have quit her job instead of getting bullied into doing what she knew was against her morals, but she was close to the two children and knew that Jeannie was never in a good position to look after them. Jeanie was still recuperating from the loss of her baby months earlier, and her mental health wasn’t at its best. No one but Eve, Mother of the Living, who calls her “daughter,” and invites her to witness the truth about her story—indeed, the truth about us all.