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About smellincoffee

Citizen, librarian, reader with a boundless wonder for the world and a curiosity about all the beings inside it.

Greater than the Sum

Posted on July 7, 2010 by smellincoffee

Greater than the Sum© Christopher L. Bennett 2008368 pages Fresh from his honeymoon with Dr. Beverly Crusher, Jean-Luc Picard has returned to the Enterprise-E to assemble a new command staff in the wake of recent losses in battle. Finding the … Continue reading →

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Teaser Tuesday (7-7)

Posted on July 6, 2010 by smellincoffee

Once a week you get a peek, although Teaser Tuesdays must be discrete. Across the table, Worf was still being Worf. “A junior lieutenant with a history of discipline problems walks out of the woods naked and tells us the … Continue reading →

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Quotable Star Trek

Posted on July 5, 2010 by smellincoffee

Quotable Star Trek© 1999 ed. Jill Sherwin374 pages “…good words. That’s where ideas begin.” – David Marcus, The Wrath of Khan. With over seven hundred television episodes and eleven movies constituting its ‘canon’, Star Trek has a lot to say … Continue reading →

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The Complete Robot

Posted on July 4, 2010 by smellincoffee

The Complete Robot© 1982 Isaac Asimov688 pages A boom in electronic engineering followed World War 2, one that led to consumer televisions, the first computers, and a wide variety of other electricity-using gadgets. As people looked more toward the future, … Continue reading →

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Jurassic Park

Posted on July 2, 2010 by smellincoffee

Jurassic Park© 1990 Michael Crichton399 pages To the south, rising above the palm trees, Grant saw a single trunk with no leaves at all, just a big curving stump. Then the stump moved, and twisted around to meet the new … Continue reading →

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American Nerd

Posted on July 2, 2010 by smellincoffee

American Nerd: the Story of my People© 2008 Benjamin Nugent224 pages First in my class here at M.I.T / Got skills, I’m a champion at D&D M.C. Escher, that’s my favorite  MC Keep your forty, I’ll just have an Earl … Continue reading →

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Contact

Posted on July 2, 2010 by smellincoffee

Contact© 1985 Carl Sagan432 pages “We could be in the middle of an intergalactic conversation — and we wouldn’t even know.” – Michio Kaku, “Our Place in the Universe“. Dr. Eleanor Arroway, known as “Ellie” to her few intimates, is … Continue reading →

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Chainbreaker’s War

Posted on June 29, 2010 by smellincoffee

Chainbreaker’s War: a Seneca Chief Remembers the American Revolution© 2002 ed. Jeanne Winston Adler224 pages On the eastern seaboard, young militia men marched around their town squares, tea-chests floated in Boston Harbor, and the bells of war tolled. Only a … Continue reading →

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Teaser Tuesday (29/6)

Posted on June 29, 2010 by smellincoffee

Teaser Tuesdays are out of this world, from ShouldBeReading. With deliberate composure, Ellie left the assembled group crowded around the consoles and returned to her office. She closed the door very carefully behind her. “Holy shit!” she whispered. (Contact, Carl Sagan. … Continue reading →

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The Man with the Iron Heart

Posted on June 26, 2010 by smellincoffee

The Man with the Iron Heart© 2008 Harry Turtledove532 pages On 27 May 1942, Reinhard Heydrich barely escapes death at the hands of a Czech hitman, his life being saved by the assassin’s weapon jamming.  Although the misfire does not … Continue reading →

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