February 2020

Century of the Manikin by E.C. Tubb (Italian edition)

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The novel “Century of the Manikin” by E.C. Tubb was published for the first time in 1972.

Human aggressiveness has been eliminated thanks to the long work of P.A.E.C. (Propaganda and Emotional Control), the organization that constantly acts on the population to keep it peaceful. Various tools are exploited, from drugs to forms of manipulation of public opinion.

Peace has existed for many years, a situation that in theory is utopian that, however, hides problems that transformed society into a dystopia. Mannequins used as a relief for residual aggression are not enough to curb obsessions and clandestine solutions are spreading.

Cast of Allosaurus jimmadseni (Image courtesy Dan Chure)

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An article published in the journal “PeerJ” reports the identification of a new species of carnivorous dinosaur that lived between 152 and 157 million years ago, in the Jurassic period. Daniel Chure and Mark Loewen named it Allosaurus jimmadseni after examining various fossils discovered in the 1990s in Utah and Wyoming to determine that it’s a new species of allosaurus, a few million years older than the first one discovered, Allosaurus fragilis. The differences between the two species suggest different eating habits.