![]() ![]() ![]() In addition, the strength of the rays remained the same, regardless of whether the compounds were in solid or liquid state.Ĭurie continued to test more uranium compounds. ![]() She found that uranium compounds also emitted similar rays. The instruments detected the faint electrical currents generated when the air between two metal plates was bombarded with uranium rays. Then she measured the strength of the rays produced by the uranium using instruments designed by her husband. According to Goldsmith, Curie coated one of two metal plates with a thin layer of uranium salts. Marie and Pierre Curie pictured on their honeymoon (Image credit: Bettman via Getty Images) Radioactive DiscoveriesĬurie was intrigued by the reports of German physicist Wilhelm Röntgen's discovery of X-rays and by French physicist Henri Becquerel's report of similar "Becquerel rays" emitted by uranium salts. ![]()
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![]() ![]() Then Xavier is offered a chance at redemption: a last-minute high-profile comeback fight. The progress of Sam Wallace’s end-stage Alzheimer’s has revealed his latent racism, and Xavier finally gains insight into why his Black mother left the family years ago. Xavier makes ends meet while he waits for the call that will reinstate him after a year-long suspension by teaching youth classes at Shot’s gym and by living rent-free in the house of his white father, whom Xavier was forced to commit to a nursing home. Through the fog of memory loss, migraines, and paranoia, Xavier does his best to stay in shape by training at the Philadelphia gym owned by his cousin-cum-manager, Shot, a retired champion boxer to whom Xavier owes an unpayable debt. Xavier can no longer deny he is losing his battle with chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE), or pugilistic dementia. ![]() Xavier “Scarecrow” Wallace, a mixed-race MMA fighter on the wrong side of thirty, is facing the fight of his life. 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I mean it – I have read each and every one. ![]() I have just finished Guys on the Bottom…and that rounds out my marathon summer of of buying and reading each of your books. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Throughout the narrative, the contents of Cloud Cuckoo Land is interwoven in bits and pieces. She ends up isolated after a plague kills everyone else on board. And sometime in the future, Konstance is a girl on Argos, an intergenerational ship that is on a 592-year-long journey with a mission to reach a distant planet. Meanwhile, Zeno is an old man who is at the library afterhours, leading a group of kids in a rehearsal for a performance of Cloud Cuckoo Land. In present day (in 2020), Seymour is a 17-year-old environmental activist who tries to set off a bomb at the local library. Meanwhile, Omeir is a boy who is forced to join the Saracen army. 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If you like The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, Kurt Vonnegut’s Slaughterhouse 5, and Frank Herbert’s Dune, you’ll love this gripping and entertaining sci-fi mystery thriller. Redolfo tries to keep a low profile on his new world whilst earning his fare home, but unwittingly gets involved with a shady gang of alien criminals, inadvertently bringing the planet to the brink of catastrophe.Īs the link between the timelines becomes clear, Redolfo must discover secrets from the past that may hold the key to saving the planet. Meanwhile, back in 1944 a mysterious man and his Jewish fiancée are fleeing across Nazi-occupied Europe. In 1977 a New York Cab driver Mike Redolfo is abducted by aliens after being mistaken for a renegade scientist. He’s abducted by aliens to the planet Vost.īut he’s got the small matter of a planetary apocalypse to deal with first… ![]() “A perfect blend of science fiction and alternate history” ![]() ![]() ![]() “When you start reading these books it ought to give a warm feeling that you are now reading the classics of twentieth-century fantasy. ![]() I was also sceptical…was it going to be like the famous five or the magic key? (I apologise to my non-English readers who may not know either of those children’s books)! Now I’m being completely honest when I say I had never heard of this book before. ‘ Over Sea Under Stone’ was recommended to me by a very close friend who told me this was their childhood favourite. And sometimes when someone’s love for that novel is strong, they are willing to share that enjoyment with others and that is what happened here. From comic books, to the classics to everything in between, everyone has a favourite. One of the greatest joys of reading is that everyone has read a book and has a favourite. ![]() ![]() ![]() So Aelia pretends to be a mortal woman who is fleeing an abusive family. During a run-in with Orsina, she is trapped in a mortal body, rendering her unable to leave Inthya.Īelia is found by Orsina again, but this time Orsina does not recognize her in her new body. The Order of the Sun has classified her as a chaos goddess, meaning that her worship has been outlawed. ![]() But after two years of fighting monsters and demons and evil gods, she does not seem to be any closer to her goal – or ever returning home.Īelia is the Goddess of Caprice, the personification of poor decision-making. She has been ordered to leave her home and travel around Vesolda in search of a great evil she is supposedly destined to destroy. 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