June 2019

Chanur's Legacy by C.J. Cherryh (Italian edition)

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The novel “Chanur’s Legacy” by C.J. Cherryh was published for the first time in 1992. It’s the fifth novel of the Chanur series and follows “Chanur’s Homecoming”.

Hilfy Chanur is the captain of the merchant ship “Chanur’s Legacy” and, together with her crew, she arrived at Meetpoint station to trade. The stationmaster is a stsho who offers Hilfy a considerable sum to transport an oji, some kind of cultural artifact, to the shsho ambassador at Urtur station. The offer seems too good to be true but it’s also too good to be rejected so Hilfy accepts despite the suspicion that there’s a catch.

During her journey, Hilfy has to take a stsho guardian for the object she’s transporting aboard her ship but she ends up rescuing Hallan Meras, a young hani, a male, who ended up in the station jail following a brawl he barely has any memory of and left there by his captain. These are just the first complications of a journey that will be full of traps.

Phuwiangvenator yaemniyomi and Vayuraptor nongbualamphuensis were two distant relatives of T.rex

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An article published in the journal “Acta Palaeontologica Polonica” reports the identification of two new species of dinosaurs that lived in present-day Thailand, in the Sao Khua Formation, in the Lower Cretaceous period, about 125 million years ago. A team of researchers named the two species Phuwiangvenator yaemniyomi and Vayuraptor nongbualamphuensis, classified in the group of coelurosaurs, distant relatives of the T.rex even if with more primitive physical structures but good enough to make them efficient predators too.