January 2012

Space Race Blast Off

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NASA has announced the immediate availability of the game Space Race Blast Off on Facebook. This game contains questions on various scientific and technological topics but also about NASA’s history and pop culture. Players can choose from 14 predefined avatars which include an alien, an android and a robot. The game is generally multiplayer so if there are other players two of them are selected to play with you, otherwise you can play alone.

Doctor Who - The King's Demons

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“The King’s Demons” is the last adventure of the twentieth season of “Doctor Who” classic series which aired in 1983 featuring the Fifth Doctor, Tegan and Turlough. It follows “Enlightenment” and it’s a two parts adventure written by Terence Dudley and directed by Tony Virgo.

Omnibus including The Dying Earth and The Eyes of the Overlord by Jack Vance (Italian edition)

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The novel “The Dying Earth”, also known as “Mazirian the Magician”, by Jack Vance was published for the first time as a book in 1950 after the stories that compose it were previously published in a magazine. It’s the first novel of the cycle of the Dying Earth. In 2001 it was a finalist for the Retro Hugo Award, the retroactive version of the Hugo Award that considers fifty years old stories, as the best novel of the year.