A Fire Upon the Deepis a complicated book and what’s below only talks about the setup for the main plot and the two different subplots. However, if you’re afraid of spoilers skip past the horizontal line.
Dotty has a lot of irons in the fire but can’t combat the urge to do some investigating. The victim had a long list of behaviors that gave many the motive for his death. She not only needs to know who did it but how they did it. Then there’s the newspaper article that puts ev...
Mar is a transmasculine nonbinary teen pirate hiding a magical ability to manipulate fire and ice. But their magic isn’t enough to reverse a wicked bargain made by their father and now el Diablo has come to collect his payment: the soul of Mar’s father and the entire crew of their sh...
Most villagers heated their temazcal by building an open fire inside, on which they rested tiles and a pot of water. We built two wood burner prototypes applying therocket stovedesign. We tested these prototypes with the families in Santa Catarina Palopó. Their feedback was positive: the proto...
“I think what Trump should do, if I was giving him one piece of advice: Fire every single midlevel bureaucrat, every civil servant in the administrative state, and replace them with our people. And when the courts stop you, stand before the country and say, ‘The chief justice has ...
He’s got an idea for Shakespeare’sTitus Andronicusthat should set the town on fire (does Chicago need another fire?) and he’s got a cast that will get some attention and who are more than capable of pulling it off. But first there’s the little problem of getting the theatre. Spac...
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First Responders at the Palisades Fire Over the decades, I have come to love Los Angeles. What is happening to it now is tearing me apart. Rate this: The Ghost of New Years Past Lucky New Year’s Postcard I’ve said on many occasions, usually around this time of year, that only a...
Sherry Pinkwhistle has a bit more depth to her, given her role, and the young priest was fun, but now, days after I finished this, I couldn’t tell you anything about any of the other characters. They didn’t seem important at the time, and seem less so upon reflection. It seems ...
That’s too bad, because this is a fire and brimstone sermon that might put the fear of Jesus in some of those holding us hostage to bad energy and environmental policy, and better than any southern Baptist minister could do it. Fire Weather is not a hopeful book, but it sure as hell...