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Web mag devoted to the culture of science in fiction and fact since 2005. We promote 'lab lit' fiction (realistic novels about scientists, not science fiction) and all things geek chic. Skeets usually by @hstiles1 http://www.lablit.com [email there]

Just started Sarah Hall's Helm for our discussion on Monday. Not clear how exactly it is #lablit - probably very 'lite' as our American cousins like to say, but I think there is an engineer. I was told it gets in by a long time lablit reader!

I just got a book on the topic that exercises anger, indignation, loathing [& four other words I didn't understand either] in equal measure on right, left, & even centre - Matei Candea Reason, Carnival and Honour: An Anthropology of Free Speech #booksky 💡📚 💙📚 www.penguin.co.uk/books/462997...

Reason, Carnival and Honour

What does free speech really mean? How does our understanding of it differ around the world? Why does it divide us – and how can we find common ground? What free speech really means is hotly conteste...

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Today was the 60th warm day at or above 25C at LHR. 2nd place in series from 1949 so 2026 is now only 2 days from record year 2018. Max temperatures largely look above this threshold for the next fortnight, 2026 clearly will end up well beyond historical precedent.

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It was always a risk, having Biggins on the show… Natalie Haynes Stands Up for the Classics: Nero, tomorrow at 9am on BBC Radio 4. Behind the scenes of I, Claudius and more… Catch up afterwards on BBC Sounds.

Getting Off By Lawrence Block An abused girl enters adulthood and searches for a meaningful relationship, while killing almost every man she has sex with. Then she decides she has to find the men she had sex with, but didn't kill, and kill them, too. So it's a serial killer detective story. ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

Hardcover book with a dustjacket cover illustration painting. A nude woman, with tousled blonde hair, faces away from us, her left arm up with her hand on the back of her neck. Her right hand is behind her, in the small of her back, holding a large kitchen knife with the blade straight down, covering the cleft of her buttocks. She is looking into a room  where a nude black-haired woman kneels on a bed, her arms wrapped around a man in front of her, sitting on the edge of the bed, as she helps him take off his shirt. He is wearing black trousers and one of his shoes and a sock are on the floor in front of him.

Now half-way into Arthur C Clarke's The Hammer of God. Not a great novel - more of an ideas story, where he could put in some of the themes he thought might be significant in the near future, well so it seems to me. Written when he was 74. I like his religious sect of Chrislam -syncretic

2/3 into Jamie Mason's Three Graves Full - very much enjoying a clever story line! This would make a good film if they could work out how to explain the inner monologues... #booksky ⚡📚 👍 I got it years ago & it was worth the wait... pushkinpress.com/book/three-g...

Three Graves Full by Jamie Mason | 9780957548848 | Pushkin Press

Hitchcock meets the Coen Brothers in a darkly comic suspense novel with the tense pacing of a thriller and the beauty of the best of literary fiction . "A rippi

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