April 2017

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Warning. This review contains several spoilers about the seventh season of the TV show “The Walking Dead”!

On april 2 the seventh season of the show “The Walking Dead” ended.

The seventh season was produced and broadcast with the format has become usual: 16 episodes of which 8 were broadcast between October and December 2016 and the other 8 between February and April 2017. For the first time there was a real drop in audience after the first episode’s peak, which may be a sign that many viewers are getting tired of the show.

The sixth season of “The Walking Dead” ended with the defeat of the Alexandria group at the hands of Negan and his Saviours. The cliffhanger left the audience wondering who would be killed by Lucille, the baseball bat wrapped in barbed wire that Negan brigns along with him.

The first episode of the seventh season is one of the most dramatic of the whole show and begins with the death of Abraham and Glenn. Daryl, for daring to react, is taken away. Rick is forced to become Negan’s bitch to avoid having other victims, starting with Carl.

From Ice to Ashes by Rhett C. Bruno

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The novel “From Ice to Ashes” by Rhett C. Bruno was published for the first time in 2017.

Kale Drayton has been a thief for most of his life but to avoid jail was forced to change his life. After being arrested following a theft, the only alternative for him was to serve on a spaceship, a difficult job for a Titanborn who must work for Earther superiors.

When his mother falls ill and needs an expensive treatment, Kale Drayton has to get the money in any way. Kepping his job on the spacship wouldn’t make sense but a mysterious contact offers to pay for his mother’s care if he will load a program into the spacship’s computer.

Daspletosaurus horneri skull

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An article published in the journal “Scientific Reports” describes the discovery of a new tyrannosaurid, a group of carnivorous theropod dinosaurs that included the famous T. rex. Called Daspletosaurus horneri, it was discovered in Montana and has an age of about 75 million years. The fossils’ excellent state of preservation allowed an analysis that suggests that it had sense organs on its snout similar to those of crocodiles and was a descendant of Daspletosaurus torosus.