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LitStack Review: Babylon’s Ashes by James S. A. Corey

Babylon’s Ashes James S. A. Corey Orbit Books Release Date: December 6, 2016 ISBN 978-0-3163-3474-7 NOTE: Babylon’s Ashes is the sixth book of James S. A. Corey’s superlative The Expanse series (out of a planned nine volumes). Before reading any further, realize that it’s virtually impossible to review book #6 without including spoilers for earlier [….]

LitStack Review: Nemesis Games by James S. A. Corey

Nemesis Games James S. A. Corey Orbit Books Release Date: June 2, 2015 ISBN 978-0-316-21758-3 Warning: This review contains spoilers for the first four books in The Expanse series. If you are a novice to The Expanse experience – and wish to remain so – you may not want to continue reading. The Expanse is [….]

Birthdays

On this day, January 17, in 1706, author, printer, publisher, political theorist, politician, postmaster,
scientist, musician, inventor, satirist, civic activist, statesman, diplomat and Founding Father, Benjamin Franklin was born in Boston, Massachusetts. Along with inventing the lightning rod, bifocals, the odometer and the glass harmonica, he was a lifelong Freemason, never married but had a common-law wife and an illegitimate son, was ambassador to France and Sweden, the nation’s first postmaster, President of Pennsylvania, and wrote and published the witty “Poor Richard’s Almanack” as well as other tracts and periodicals; his autobiography (published after his death) is still considered a classic. He died
of pleurisy in Philadelphia in 1790 at age 84.

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