Massimo Luciani

Algis Budrys in 1985

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Algirdas Jonas Budrys was born on January 9, 1931 in Königsberg, East Prussia. His father was consul general of the exiled Lithuanian government and in 1936 his family found sanctuary in the U.S.A., where he lived for the rest of his life.

Algis Budrys died from cancer on June 9, 2008.

Psychological development is very important in Algis Budrys’ stories: action is generally limited and it just leads to consequences on the characters’ minds. His attention to the characters’ development brought him the critics’ favor, not always the general public appreciation yet his stories are interesting to read for that very reason.

Patrick Macnee and Diana Rigg in The Avengers

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On January 7, 1961, in the UK the first episode of the show “The Avengers” was broadcast. The show went on until 1969 and it’s one of the most famous British TV shows of that era. Patrick Macnee was a protagonist in all its seasons and in “The New Avengers”, the TV show that in the ’70s tried to renew the success of “The Avengers”.

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It’s been one month since my transition to digital terrestrial television after the switch off in my region. Initially I did a new channels automatic scan and store almost every day to check if there were new ones and if some of them changed number. After some days I started doing it only once a week because I noticed that at that point the problems I initially had with some national channels had disappeared and sometimes no new channels appeared.

Flood by Stephen Baxter

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The novel “Flood” by Stephen Baxter starts in 2016. Four people are liberated from a group of Christian fanatics after some years of captivity. They think they can finally go back to their normal life but they discover that during the years they were captives sea levels started rising quickly so more and more lands are flooded.