2016

Maul by Tricia Sullivan

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The novel “Maul” by Tricia Sullivan was published for the first time in 2003.

Sun is a teenager who is part of a girl gang. A Saturday she goes to the Mall along with her gang but there she and her friends end up clashing with another gang and their shopping projects must give way to weapons. The police intervention makes the situation even more complicated and dangerous.

Meniscus is used as a guinea pig in a laboratory that makes research on viruses. The hope is to avoid another epidemic which could wipe out the men but the research is made more difficult because Meniscus is not an ordinary man and the people around him have their own agenda.

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An article published in the journal “Nature” describes a research that confirms that the ancient animal commonly known as “Tully monster” was a vertebrate. Decades after the discovery of the first fossil of Tullimonstrum gregarium – this is its scientific name – and a number of hypotheses about its classification, this study is the second in a few weeks published in “Nature” to reach the same conclusions.

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A few hours ago Kobe Bryant played his last NBA game and greeted the league in his own way, scoring 60 points in the 101-96 win against the Utah Jazz. Needless to say, the Los Angeles Lakers champion also scored the decisive points for the win but this was above all a celebration of a player who, both loved and hated, is already a legend.

The tree of life

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An article published in the journal “Nature Microbiology” describes a genetic research that offers a broader vision of the tree of life. A team of researchers of the University of California, Berkeley, led by Laura Hug, who now works at the biology faculty of the University of Waterloo, Ontario, Canada, built a new tree of life showing a diversity formed for two thirds by bacteria and archaea.

The Fugitive Worlds by Bob Shaw (Italian edition)

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The novel “The Fugitive Worlds” by Bob Shaw was published for the first time in 1989. It’s the third book of the Land and Overland trilogy and follows “The Wooden Spaceships”.

Toller Maraquine II is following in the footsteps of his famous grandfather and has become the captain of an airship but traveling between Land and Overland has become routine or at least it almost always is. The only hope of glory is in Queen Daseene’s will to return to Land to try to repopulate it.

However, those projects must be put aside when a strange object is detected in the sky. Initially, scientists are puzzled because it doesn’t resemble anything that they know but over time it approaches Land and Overland bringing possible dangers. Is the appearance of a kind of barrier between Land and Overland connected to the strange object?