Author: sroot
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Rotary and Rootary
I’m sure there’s a better pun on the name Root and the organisation called Rotary, for now I just can’t think of one. Go on, post a comment and be applauded by the other visitor for your ingenuity. This very overdue post follows an email from a past customer way back in February, inviting me…
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Halting State (Charles Stross)
First things first, I love the cover of this book. It’s got pixelated drawings of people like you’d find in games on Atari ST and Amiga’s in the early 90’s. Brings back fun memories. Anyway, onto the story, it all begins with a robbery from within an online game. We follow a policewoman as she…
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Out of the Silent Planet (C S Lewis)
Growing up, I read all of the Narnia books. I’d persuaded my parents to buy me the full set of 7 as a 12 year old and read from the first to the last. I loved those books. I already knew of the “The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe” but until I got the…