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  • Farscape.

    Farscape.

    by O'Bannon S. Rockne, Keith R. A. DeCandido
    • Rated 5 stars

    “A virus starts to spread through the Uncharted Territories. It causes infected people to become very violent and can even drive them to suicide. Moya's crew gets infected and everyone turns on each other. The cause of the virus is rather strange and Crichton tries to stop the virus.

    Oh, and when someone gets cured, they throw up all over the place, so beware!”

    Ranko wrote this review Friday, February 22, 2013. ( reply | permalink )
  • Saucer Country #5

    Saucer Country #5

    by Paul Cornell
    • Rated 5 stars

    “The governor has a regression hypnosis, but it's part of a plan. The hypnotist had planned to go on a radio show but the plan falls through. The governor wants to find some kind of evidence to clear up what happened to her. ”

    Ranko wrote this review Friday, February 22, 2013. ( reply | permalink )
  • Saucer Country #12

    Saucer Country #12

    by Paul Cornell
    • Rated 5 stars

    “Its a day until the election. The professor had a falling out with the governor and has basically been put on the back shelf. Meanwhile the guy running against her talks about his abduction by aliens that are lizards (which is not impossible at all, actually). The aliens said they controlled almost everything on Earth and they made him swear loyalty to them. The professor decides to commit suicide.”

    Ranko wrote this review Wednesday, February 20, 2013. ( reply | permalink )
  • Best Friends Forever

    Best Friends Forever

    by Emily Chase
    • Rated 5 stars

    “Faith and Dana have been invited to visit Shelly for two weeks on her farm. It becomes evident that the story is going to involve cultural prejudice, with Faith and Dana representing girls from big cities, and Shelley representing a girl from a 'country' area. The town Shelley is from is very small and the activities center around farming. Dana has a hard time dealing with Shelley's mother accepting domesticity rather than pursing a more active professional female role.

    Dana says the town is like a 'foreign country.' Neither Dana nor Faith can understand why 4H is so important to the people there. Things also go very bad a Dana is nearly killed during a horse ride and all of them are nearly killed by a tornado.

    One of the boys who lives there says he sees no sense in school. When Faith becomes ill she is taken to the hospital and her mother wants her moved to an Eastern hospital where she thinks the hospital care would be better. It turns out the quality of the care was the same. Faith and Dana end up realizing how snobbish they had been acting.
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    Ranko wrote this review Wednesday, February 20, 2013. ( reply | permalink )
  • Saucer Country #3
    • Rated 5 stars

    “Regression therapy reveals more about the abductions. The professor keeps seeing the Voyager images and them sees another strange image. In another abduction a guy sees rabbits instead of the aliens. (You see what you want to see.)

    There have in reality been numerous cases of alleged abductions by space aliens. These usually come out during regression hypnosis. The problem is that just because a person remembers something happening doesn't prove it actually happened. The mind operates in fascinating ways and can change things so something that happened one way is remembered as happening a different way, or the mind presents something having happened that never occurred at all, but represents other problems the person has that he mind puts a more 'familiar face' on.”

    Ranko wrote this review Wednesday, February 20, 2013. ( reply | permalink )
  • Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves Ohio Narratives
    • Rated 4 stars

    “33 interviews with former slaves who settled in Ohio. A few statistics; of those who actually mentioned how their masters treated them, 15 said they were treated well, and 5 said they were mistreated. Of those who talked about being beaten, said said they were beaten and five said they weren't. Eleven of them had relatives who were resold by their master. Several complained about "how young people acted these days."

    Several were not told they were free after the war ended. One worked on a plantation that was a location for the Battle of Bull Run. One specially said she disapproved of inter-racial marriage. One actually talked to Abraham Lincoln, and fifteen talked about Lincoln being a great man. About a fourth to a third of them talked about the KKK where they had lived as a slave. ”

    Ranko wrote this review Wednesday, February 20, 2013. ( reply | permalink )
  • Nocturnal Academy 5 - Mage against the Machine, Ed: 1
    • Rated 5 stars

    “This is a fascinating addition to the series. Alice's computer begins to act up and eventually she starts getting messages from it. Meanwhile the Baron is acting like some kind of dictator and is causing a lot of students problems.

    The situation has to be handled by having Alice, Professor Abbacus, and a new student go inside the machine itself to confront the Baron and they find out he has been almost literally helping the Immaterium. The description of how the computer works is amazing. In the end the Professor has to do something he doesn't want to do. Also, there's a plot about Madame Nocturna getting old quickly. ”

    Ranko wrote this review Tuesday, February 19, 2013. ( reply | permalink )
  • Saucer Country #2

    Saucer Country #2

    by Paul Cornell
    • Rated 5 stars

    “Her main campaign person is really concerned about the governor saying she was abducted by space aliens, but the governor agrees not to say anything about that. She goes to a doctor who asks her if she recently had anal intercourse which she hadn't.

    The story also reveals that other characters have also been abducted. The governor is seeking an expert on UFOs who turns out to be the one who sees figures from the gold disc on the Voyager craft and who is rather unstable. ”

    Ranko wrote this review Tuesday, February 19, 2013. ( reply | permalink )
  • Saucer Country #1

    Saucer Country #1

    by Paul Cornell
    • Rated 5 stars

    “The Hispanic governor of New Mexico is going to enter the race for President of the U.S. There's a good bit of story concerning the people who are helping her and various problems that she has. There is also a professor who is suspended because he had the audacity to publish a book saying that flying saucers were really craft from another planet.

    What complicates things far more is that she was abducted by space aliens and she thinks they are invading our planet. This, of course, is something that has to be covered up.

    A good start to the series. ”

    Ranko wrote this review Tuesday, February 19, 2013. ( reply | permalink )
  • Hunting The Snark: An Alice in Deadland Adventure
    • Rated 5 stars

    “The events take place after Alice in Deadland, but not all danger is passed as Shanghai is nuked. Alice and the others find out about a play by the Saudi Royal Family, former presidents, billionaires and media tycoons to continue their effort to take over the world by resurrecting some missiles from before the war and use the nukes to wipe out any resistance.

    This involves Alice and Bunny Ears going to the U.S. They have to fight Zeus soldiers and bandits while trying to win over the American biters. There's a great deal of action in this episode and at least of the would-be tyrants gets his just reward. ”

    Ranko wrote this review Sunday, February 17, 2013. ( reply | permalink )
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