It’s interesting that the writers keep coming back to the same works and themes.

Recommended: The Megalithic European, by Julian Cope

Welcome to the fourth edition of The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction.

The population of insects in our world has declined catastrophically in recent years.

Sophie’s World, by Jostein Gaarder

With three adaptations exclusive to this hardback edition!

In an extract from his new memoir, the screenwriter bids farewell to the show he helped save – and welcomes its new future, whatever that is

Recommended: An Instance of the Fingerpost, by Iain Pears

The Big Finish story is better,

Explore this post and more from the BestofRedditorUpdates community

Ancient massacre, nuclear apocalypse, powerlifting, Irish accents, and cousins.

Batteries, Taiwan, the Pinglu Canal, the Arctic and matcha

China is scaling up production and challenging Japan’s grip on a growing global market

YouTube video by Clingendael Institute

It’s the world’s fastest-growing power technology — and Beijing is dominant

I admired the art, but felt that the storytelling was incomplete.

Last books finished  Patchwork Agents, Adepts and Apprentices Raising Hare Midaq Alley Star Trek and Sacred Ground A Nation Once Again The Ghost Brigades

Non-fiction 10 Non-genre 4 SF 5 Doctor Who 2 Comics 4

There’s nothing objectionable, but nothing terribly interesting either.

Recommended: Fun Home, by Alison Bechdel

Every night, one of the men Ron McAndrew killed would sit at the foot of his bed and stare, blankly, into his tortured soul.

There are two parallel timelines and it took me a while to work out what was happening when.

Sandstorm, by James Rollins

It’s not particularly epic, but it satisfies the itch.

Recommended: The Prestige, by Christopher Priest

Here we go again.

Tom Sawyer is a boy somewhere around twelve, the book never pins it down, who lives with his Aunt Polly, his dead mother's sister, in a little town on the Mississippi River called St.

Vividly described landscape, well-sketched set of characters.

Mid Autumn Festival, Trump-Xi summit, Xi vs Deng / Hu, the future of Taiwan, and shuaqi

Quick scrolls, zooming in, and what’s on the feed: catching up on what’s been trending.

A Taiwan scholar has laid out far-reaching principles under “One Country, Two Systems.”Beijing has now twice helped bring the debate into public view.