Books tagged with: nature vs nurture
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![The Disestablishment of ParadisePhillip Mann]()
Science FictionSomething is going wrong on the planet of Paradise, crops will no longer grow while those imported are withering and dying in their droves. The indigenous plant life (never entirely safe) is becoming wildly unpredictable and dangerous. And so the order is given to abandon Paradise, all personnel to...
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![Where Late the Sweet Birds SangKate Wilhelm]()
Science FictionWhere Late the Sweet Birds Sang is a Hugo award winning post-apocalyptic tale of human cloning. For the Sumner family the recent droughts, floods, blighted crops, pandemic plagues and rising sterility all point to the demise of the human race. Their isolated farm in the Appalachian Mountains provide...
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![The Snow LeopardPeter Matthiessen]()
General FictionEvery so often I like to lift my head above the science fiction and fantasy world and read something unconnected. The Snow Leopard by Peter Matthiessen was the choice this time, a classic novel of discovery. Matthiessen was a literary giant, the only writer to win the National Book Award for both fi...
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![MongrelsStephen Graham Jones]()
HorrorMongrels is a book that grips you by the jugular right from the start, a bit like the way a werewolf might. Funny enough that's what Mongrels is all about - a family of werewolves who are forced to travel around the USA avoiding the authorities and others who take a dislike their kind. It's a countr...
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![JunctionDaniel M Bensen]()
Science FictionJunction asks the question: what would we do if we had access to a brand new, virgin world? Would we destroy it like we are doing with our own world? Or would we learn from our mistakes and treat this as a second chance to do things right? Daisuke Matsumori is a Japanese nature show host who happens...
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![MaliceHeather Walter]()
FantasyAre villains made or are they born? I believe more in nurture over nature, that someone is not born inherently evil but is made so by their experiences. Alyce is not a bad person, but her heritage as half-Vila makes her a pariah in the Kingdom of Briar. The people hate her, but her elixirs are usefu...
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![HoundedKevin Hearne]()
FantasyHounded is the first book in Kevin Hearne's Iron Druid Chronicles, a series of urban fantasy novels that follow the adventures of Atticus O'Sullivan, a 2,000-year-old druid living in modern-day Arizona. The story begins with Atticus, who has managed to keep his true identity and magical abilities hi...
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![The Night FieldDonna Glee Williams]()
FantasyThe relationship that humans have with the land has always been critical for our survival from the hunter gatherers to the farmers, to the post-industrial world we live in today. Living as one with the planet will help it sustain itself and us, but in recent decades it does not take much more than a...
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