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After encountering the worst life has to offer, including the death of his wife and child, destruction of his home world, an addiction forced on him by the one responsible and a third of the galaxy falling under the heel of that tyrant, Levi Jacobs, a wizard, seeks to unravel the secrets of time and fate.

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(Left) The cover of The Inverted Glass, by Owen Tyme. The Background is a pink and purple nebula in space. The foreground is largely line art, in white, with a black shadow outline. At the center is an hourglass. The bottom has black sand, with a white figure standing in it. The top has is an inverted mirror image of the bottom, with a black figure in white sand. The hourglass serves as the balance point for a set of scales, which hold a heart and a feather. The heart is on the left and the feather on the right. The heart is lower than the feather. (Right) Lying in blue sand is a heart made of the same sand, full of cracks. It glows from the inside in a warm, yellow color. Over that is the following quote: Nicole felt an extreme kind of loss, realizing she’d been stolen away from the afterlife, just before finding out if she deserved punishment or not! “How dare you do this to me? Why?” “I’m always in need of strong spirits and I’ve seen none stronger. You have unique talents I refuse to see go to waste.” (Bottom) https://books2read.com/TheInvertedGlass

That black hole is something else. By Arthur Inverse The Last Philosopher is a ride. The story starts with a black hole named, wait for it. Di- I mean Richard. And as a black hole should be, he think's hes the absolute center of the universe, able to bring everything to him and underfoot. Then we are brought to our chrotchity old headmaster of our school. The story so far has been good with worldbuilding, pictures and maps in the story adding just the right amount of touch and immersion to help visualize wheer you are and what is going on within the chapters. I found little to no errors in word choice, flow, and spelling. Solid all around.

It's two weeks until the SIDEQUESTED graphic novel hits bookstores. I'm sort of freaking out.

Also if it hits a bestseller list I'm going to have to fulfill a campaign pledge and rent some goats.

I...yes. Goats.

https://sidequested.com/book/

The SQ book and the SQ movie poster side by side

📚 When the Moon Hits Your Eye by: John Scalzi

The moon has turned into cheese. Now humanity has to deal with it.

For some it's an opportunity. For others it's a moment to question their faith: In God, in science, in everything. Still others try to keep the world running in the face of absurdity and uncertainty. And then there are the bi...

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The moon has turned into cheese. Now humanity has to deal with it. For some it's an opportunity. For others it's a moment to question their faith: In God, in science, in everything. Still others try to keep the world running in the face of absurdity and uncertainty. And then there are the billions looking to the sky and wondering how a thing that was always just there is now... something absolutely impossible. Astronauts and billionaires, comedians and bank executives, professors and presidents, teenagers and terminal patients at the end of their lives over the length of an entire lunar cycle, each get their moment in the moonlight. To panic, to plan, to wonder and to pray, to laugh and to grieve. All in a kaleidoscopic novel that goes all the places you’d expect, and then to so many places you wouldn’t. It's a wild moonage daydream. Ride this rocket.

How Einstein revolutionized the meaning of “where” and “when”

Even space and time are relative in Einstein's universe. That means our old notions of "where" and "when" no longer apply on cosmic scales.

by Ethan Siegel

https://bigthink.com/starts-with-a-bang/einstein-revolutionized-where-when/?utm_source=nautilus.beehiiv.com&utm_medium=newsletter&utm_campaign=are-we-all-doomed-to-develop-ai-psychosis&_bhlid=c8e74783f471d1d0672424048a5359c94a883770

Einstein at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/1630

Dr. Albert Einstein writes out an equation for the density of the Milky Way on the blackboard at the Carnegie Institute, Mt. Wilson Observatory headquarters in Pasadena, Calif., Jan. 14, 1931. A black-and-white photograph of Einstein with wild white hair and a thick moustache, wearing a tweed jacket, writing on a blackboard with chalk. He turns his head toward the camera with a lively, alert expression. The equation R_ik = 0 is written in large chalk letters on the dark board behind him, with additional partially visible equations above. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert_Einstein#/media/File:Albert_Einstein_writing_on_a_blackboard_in_Pasadena_(1931).jpg