September 2019

Luz Ojeda (Cristina Rodlo) in Shatter Like a Pearl (Image courtesy AMC Studios / Amazon. All rights reserved)

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“Shatter Like a Pearl” is the fifth episode of the second season of the TV show “The Terror”, which was named “The Terror: Infamy”, and follows “The Weak Are Meat”. It’s broadcast in the USA on AMC Studios and in other nations on Amazon Prime Video.

At the internment camp, the Japanese-Americans are forced to complete a questionnaire that is supposed to establish their loyalty to the USA but two of the questions generate a lot of arguments and resistance among them. New translators arrive in Guadalcanal but one of them behaves strangely. Chester Nakayama (Derek Mio) finds out what happened to his sons while he and his fellow translator Arthur Ogawa (Marcus Toji) interrogate a Japanese prisoner who claims he’s possessed by a yurei.

It by Stephen King

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The novel “It” by Stephen King was published for the first time in 1986. It won the British Fantasy Award.

1957. Georgie Denbrough is taking advantage of the heavy rains to play on the streets of Derry with a paper boat. When it ends up into a gutter, Georgie fears he lost it, but in the gutter’s opening he sees the face of a clown who starts talking to him. When Georgie approaches, the entity with the appearance of a clown kills him tearing him to pieces. It’s just the first of a series of murders that strike Derry.

1985. Mike Hanlon is Derry’s librarian and realizes that a new cycle of strange murders has begun so he calls his six old friends who moved elsewhere but many years before sworn that they would return to Derry if that happened. They had completely forgotten the events of their childhood but Mike’s call starts restoring those memories with the horrors attached to them.

The Castle in Cassiopeia by Mike Resnick

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The novel “The Castle in Cassiopeia” by Mike Resnick was published for the first time in 2017. It’s the third novel in the Dead Enders series and follows “The Prison in Antares”.

Nathan Pretorius is used to being in charge of the most difficult missions but this time the Dead Enders must carry out a task that seems really impossible. They were the ones who replaced General Michkag with a clone counting on the fact that he would sign a peace treaty between the Democracy and the Traanskei Coalition but the clone decided that he liked his position and is continuing the war with better results than the original.

The Dead Enders must try to kill General Michkag’s clone knowing very well that he knows them and has seen how they work. They have to find out where he’s hiding and get to him knowing that after replacing the original he changed the old defense systems to make them much better. To succeed in their task it’s useful to have new allies.

PS4 (Image courtesy Sony)

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Video games had an amazing evolution since their humble beginning and today you can enjoy them on a PC or buy a video game console with the power that not that long ago was limited to supercomputers at really affordable prices. Today there are many options for gamers and it can be confusing if you’re just having your first look into this world, but you just need to get some basic ideas to make the best choice for you.

Kamuysaurus japonicus was a duck-billed dinosaur that lived 72 million years ago

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An article published in the journal “Scientific Reports” describes the identification of a new species of duck-billed dinosaur that lived about 72 million years ago, in the Late Cretaceous period, in today’s Japan. A team of paleontologists led by Professor Yoshitsugu Kobayashi of the Japanese Hokkaido University Museum named it Kamuysaurus japonicus and classified in the family of hadrosaurids after examining the almost complete skeleton available.