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If you’re a microbiologist, you’ll get it.

This entry was posted in Cartoons and tagged bacteria, bacteria joke, cartoon, nerd humor, pilus on September 21, 2009 by mtaylor732@gmail.com.

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The Mechanical

by Ian Tregillis

Full of cool ideas, but with a frustrating writing style. In an alternative 1926, the Dutch have taken over the world using armies of alchemical slaves. Magical compulsions keep the Clakkers in line. What could go wrong? Jax, a househo...

Ancillary Sword

by Ann Leckie

Ancillary Justice

by Ann Leckie

The main character is a spaceship. And she is hell bent on revenge. It is not the plot that makes Ancillary Justice by Ann Leckie shine – the above is all there is to know about it. Nor is it the setting, which is standard space opera f...

Wild Seed

by Octavia E. Butler

They are the only two immortals in the word: Anyanwu, an Ibo woman who can repair her body at will, and Doro, a spirit who possesses bodies and devours souls. They hate each other with a passion; the loneliness of immortality makes them ...

Steering the Craft: Exercises and Discussions on Story Writing for the Lone Navigator or the Mutinous Crew

by Ursula K. Le Guin

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