March 2022

Rejuvenation Book 3 by Byddi Lee

The novel “Rejuvenation Book 3” by Byddi Lee was published for the first time in 2020. It’s the third book in the Rejuvenation trilogy and follows “Rejuvenation Book 2”.

Bobbie Chan and his group are hunted down and hiding from government forces becomes increasingly difficult. Despite that, the resistance movement can’t stand by and watch people who have been rejuvenated and become mentally unstable being used as soldiers.

To have any hope of victory, vital information is needed to fully understand rejuvenation and its side effects. However, to find them, someone has to infiltrate the heart of the Belus government / company with all the risks and difficulties involved.

Jean-Luc Picard (Patrick Stewart) in Watcher (Image courtesy Paramount+ / Amazon Prime Video)

“Watcher” is the fourth episode of the second season of the TV show “Star Trek: Picard” and follows “Assimilation”. It’s available in the USA on the Paramount+ streaming platform and in many other countries on Amazon Prime Video.

Jean-Luc Picard (Patrick Stewart) and Agnes Jurati (Alison Pill) discover that there are three days left before the event that will change the history of humanity driving it towards the timeline that leads to the Confederation. Picard follows the trace of the mysterious Watcher while Jurati tries to repair La Sirena’s onboard systems, a difficult job also due to the presence of the Borg Queen (Annie Wersching).

The available bones of Yuxisaurus kopchicki together with its skeleton reconstruction

An article published in the journal “eLife” reports the identification of a new species of armored dinosaurs that lived between 192 and 174 million years ago, at the beginning of the Jurassic period, in today’s China. A team of researchers named it Yuxisaurus kopchicki and assigned it to the group of thyreophorans (Thyreophora), which includes the many armored dinosaurs such as the famous stegosaurs and ankylosaurs. The new species is the first of this group to be described thanks to early Jurassic fossils discovered in Asia. This confirms this group’s quick spread and diversification.

Italian anthology of John Wyndham's works

The novel “The Chrysalids”, known in the USA as “Re-Birth”, by John Wyndham was published for the first time in 1955.

David Strom learned very well the religion lessons that his father, the preacher from the village of Waknuk, gave him. This means that he’s perfectly familiar with the Definition, which establishes the characteristics of a human being. However, when he discovers that Sophie, a little girl from a nearby community, has six toes, he doesn’t think she’s a sacrilegious mutant. When Sophie’s mutation is discovered, adults don’t react with David’s levity.

Over the years, David develops telepathic abilities that allow him to communicate with other young people in the area with similar power. Sophie’s story taught him the hard way that any out-of-the-ordinary traits that could be considered a mutation must be kept secret and the other Telepaths agree with him. The birth of his sister Petra, who starts manifesting very soon extremely powerful telepathic powers that allow her to contact people at a far greater distance, changes their situation.

Jean-Luc Picard (Patrick Stewart) in Assimilation (Image courtesy Paramount+ / Amazon Prime Video)

“Assimilation” is the third episode of the second season of the TV show “Star Trek: Picard” and follows “Penance”. It’s available in the USA on the Paramount+ streaming platform and in many other countries on Amazon Prime Video.

Jean-Luc Picard (Patrick Stewart) and his group must escape the forces of the Confederation in order to proceed with the plan to find the origin of the divergence in history that led to that dystopia. To do this, the onboard systems of the starship La Sirena must be connected to the Borg Queen (Annie Wersching), what could go wrong?