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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, April 3, in 1783, Washington Irving was born in New York City. Best known for his stories, Rip Van Winkle and The Legend of Sleepy Hollow, he was also an accomplished biographer, with works on Christopher Columbus, Muhammad and George Washington (after whom he was named, due to his being born the same week that NYC inhabitants learned of the ceasefire that signaled the end of the Revolutionary War) to his credit. Not only a writer, he also went on a surveying mission deep in Indian Territory, spent time as the U.S. Ambassador to Spain, and gave advice to a young Edgar Allen Poe. He died of a heart attack at his estate in Tarrytown, New York in 1859, at age 76.

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