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Robbie Parry
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Waterstones' synopsis:

In this enthralling cosmic journey through space and time, astrophysicist Jillian Scudder locates our home planet within its own `family tree'. Our parent the Earth and its sibling planets in our solar system formed within the same gas cloud. Without our grandparent the Sun, we would not exist, and the Sun in turn relies on the Milky Way as its home. The Milky Way rests in a larger web of galaxies that traces its origins right back to tiny fluctuations in the very early universe. Following these cosmic connections, we discover the many ties that bind us to our universe. 

Based around readers' questions from the author's popular blog `Astroquizzical', the book provides a quirky guide to how things work in the universe and why things are the way they are, from shooting stars on Earth, to black holes, to entire galaxies. For anyone interested in the `big picture' of how the cosmos functions and how it is all connected, Jillian Scudder is the perfect guide.


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THE PETRIFIED FOREST (1934) by Robert Emmet Sherwood

The stage play on which the movie is based. Interesting to note the changes, and the obvious reasons they were made. The notorious Hays Office, Hollywood's in-house censors, was in full vigor, having been established some ten years before the movie was made. (It was the reason for Bette Davis' character's famous line about not giving "a hoot in a hot place.")

The ending is subtly but significantly different, too.

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Just finished an advanced reading copy of LOW CHICAGO, the next Wild Cards book, due out in June. It's all time travel stories set in the Windy City, one of them with very much a "Days of Future Past" angle on it.
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...Wild Cards...•••

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Michael Hogan
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SLUGFEST -- Inside the Epic 50-Year Battle Between Marvel and DC,
by Reed Tucker
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Michael - Hope you enjoy SLUGFEST as much as I did!
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Finished PETRIFIED FOREST. Found it overall less satisfying than the movie.
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Robert,

It was an entertaining read and filled in a lot of information around the generalities of which I was aware.

I dying to ask JB if he knows which "talent" asked for an Asian hooker as part of his incentive plan.
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I dying to ask JB if he knows which "talent" asked for an Asian hooker as part of his incentive plan.

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First I've heard of this.

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Michael Arndt
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Getting ready to read:

INCREDIBLE HULK: REGRESSION by Bill Mantlo and Sal Buscema.

and

THREE DAYS IN JANUARY: DWIGHT EISENHOWER'S FINAL MISSION by Bret Baier.
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Now starting the final book that was written by one of my favorites... 
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Excellent book, James... that one's a keeper!
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