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There’s no need for a traditional POETS Day this week. “Piss Off Early, Tomorrow’s Saturday” doesn’t really resonate when so many have a long Thanksgiving weekend anyway. Maybe “Pig Out, Enjoy Tryptophan Slumber?” I’m phoning this one in myself. I’ve got potatoes dauphinoise (Not potatoes Lyonnaise!) to make and since no one else eats or […]
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Philippe Kermorvant is an officer of the Marine Nationale, the navy of Revolutionary France. He is an aristocrat but a French patriot first. Captured by the British, he refuses parole, making a daring escape from a prison hulk to return to France.
Chloe Mendoza hunts monsters for a living. She is one, too, a nagualli – a creature of pre-Columbian Central American myth. When she lets her inner monster loose, on direct orders from her superior, the results force her to leave Israel and the monster-hunting team she was a member of.
As book reviews go, this one may seem strange and incomplete. That result might be appropriate, since that was how I responded to the book myself. @philo suggested the book The Iron Heel by Jack London after I had somewhat recovered from reading 1984 and Animal Farm. (I don’t recommend reading dystopian novels too close together in time; you’ll be depressed for days.) But I was intrigued by this book’s premise and couldn’t resist reading it. How much worse could it be than 1984?
I’m a bad poster. I’m not going back to look up the Twitter post that inspired this. I saw an interviewer on a college campus asking, “What are the biggest problems we face as a people?” And the two most popular answers were “sexism” and “racism.” And when asked how we could solve these problems, the student respondents had no idea. I didn’t want to risk watching the video again, let alone link to it.
Dr. Raj Mondal works for the Landing’s Genetic Hygiene Board. He sentences people to death. He does not see it that way. He sees his job as making the genetic classification system fairer. He counsels those carrying an excess error load (EEL) of genetic flaws to register.