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CIXIN LIU The Three-Body Problem series. Reviewed by Chris Maher

CIXIN LIU The Three-Body Problem series. Reviewed by Chris Maher

by NRB | 27 Jun 2017 | SFF | 0 comments

Cixin Liu takes the tropes of science fiction and looks at them with new eyes in this ambitious and imaginative series. ‘Hard’ science fiction doesn’t have to be hard to read, and even though Cixin Liu admits The Three-Body Problem is more about ideas than character,...

The Godfather: Peter Corris on getting the news

by NRB | 8 Nov 2013 | The Godfather: Peter Corris | 1 comment

I used to get the news from a combination of reading the broadsheets, the Sydney Morning Herald and the Australian, listening to ABC radio and watching the 7pm ABC television news. With my eyesight now making reading papers too difficult (I maintain, without objective...

The Godfather: Peter Corris on Mythbusters

by NRB | 16 Aug 2013 | The Godfather: Peter Corris | 0 comments

My eight-year-old grandson Vincent is a fan of the Mythbusters television show. He stays overnight with us every Saturday and introduced me to it. At first I watched just to see what so interested him but the show got me in and I began to record three or four episodes...
             

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