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• 54 weeks

  Last and First Men

  Only took me a few months of on and off reading to finally get through all of Last and First Men. It is now my favorite book of all time. It has (as I mentioned in my last blog (though I doubt many have seen it) ) fundamentally changed the way I write. The book is simply wonderful and completely deserves its place in the hall of Science-Fiction Masterworks. It's a story that spans 2 billion years of potential human history (including due to when it was written, some alternate history work)!

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• 59 weeks

  Inspiration

  I've been reading Last and First Men and can easily say that it is by far the best book I've ever read. The way it is written hit a chord with me, I'm certain it has even changed the way I write. It has told me that I don't have to write a story about one person or a group, this I knew already, but beyond that I can write very generally about events. Last and First Men, if you didn't know, covers 2 billion years of theoretical human future history (beginning in 1930 since it was published

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• 65 weeks

  New Year, New History Fact

  Did you know that Dr. Von Braun had designed a manned mission to Mars as early as 1952? From what I understand the math still adds up, the mission would've worked. It would've been ridiculously expensive and take way too long to construct in orbit but it would've worked... a lot better than NASA's supposed planned Mars mission schedule.

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• 87 weeks

  The Roman Empire

  Few seem to know that the Roman Empire actually survived for far longer than the first hundreds years post Jesus' birth.

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• 131 weeks

  A Wee Teaser

  "The votes have finally been counted, the new president of Hestain is Duke Flash, for what is now his fourth term as president," the newsmare says, "Duke will, at the end of this term, have been president for a full 16 years."

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