Will Sargent rated In the land of invented languages: 4 stars

In the land of invented languages by Arika Okrent
Okrent tells the fascinating and highly entertaining history of man's enduring quest to build a better language. Peopled with charming …
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Okrent tells the fascinating and highly entertaining history of man's enduring quest to build a better language. Peopled with charming …

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Duncan Chalk's six-hundred-pound frame is nearly as large as his media empire. Beneath the depths of his immense rolls of …

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Ray Bradbury: The martian chronicles. (Bantam Books)
This is a collection of science fiction short stories, cleverly cobbled together to form a coherent and very readable novel …

Anne McCaffrey: To Ride Pegasus (2010, Penguin Random House)
They were four extraordinary women who read minds, healed bodies, diverted disasters, foretold the future--and became pariahs in their own …

On the planet Pern, which was colonised hundreds of years ago by Earth folk looking for a more agrarian lifestyle, …

A fateful encounter between star-roving races.

Ray Bradbury: Illustrated Man (2013, HarperCollins Publishers)
The Illustrated Man is a 1951 collection of 18 science fiction short stories by American writer Ray Bradbury. A recurring …

From the savannas of Africa at the dawn of mankind to the rings of Saturn as man ventures to the …

Another Turn, and the deadly silver Threads began falling again. So the bold dragonriders took to the air once more …

Few American novels written this century have endured in the heart and memory as has Ray Bradbury's unparalleled literary classic …

The year is 2020. Fueled by an insatiable curiosity, Reid Malenfant ventures to the far edge of the solar system, …

Pursuing her dream to be a Harper of Pern, Menolly studies under the Masterharper learning that more is required than …