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mountainwashere (65)in #fantasy • 6 years ago
Epic Fantasy Lineup: Mistborn
Brandon Sanderson has a LOT of fantasy books out, but the series I first encountered (and that Sanderson first became really well known for) is the Mistborn series. [Image…
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mountainwashere (65)in #steem • 6 years ago
My Future Steemit Plans
The few of you who read my blog regularly have probably noticed my infrequent posting the last couple months. I'm here to talk a little bit about what's been going on with that…
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mountainwashere (65)in #fantasy • 6 years ago
Epic Fantasy Lineup: The Wheel of Time
Sorry for the long absence, just got done moving for the first time in over four years. The new place is awesome, but man was that a hassle and a half. Robert Jordan's Wheel…
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mountainwashere (65)in #nature • 6 years ago
Nature Identification Thread #23- Now Paying out Steem Basic Income Memberships to Participants!
It's time for the weekly nature identification thread! Post pictures of plants, animals, rocks, or other cool stuff that you've photographed but can't identify, and I, along with…
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mountainwashere (65)in #fantasy • 6 years ago
Epic Fantasy Lineup: Malazan Book of the Fallen
The Malazan Book of the Fallen is easily one of the weirdest- and biggest- of the giant epic fantasy series. There are ten books in the main series, as well as an additional six…
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mountainwashere (65)in #fantasy • 6 years ago
Epic Fantasy Lineup: Jim Butcher's Codex Alera
It's no secret that I'm a huge sucker for epic fantasy. Part of that is my reading speed- I read really, really fast, so most books are over just way too fast for my taste. A…
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mountainwashere (65)in #nature • 6 years ago
Nature Identification Thread #22- Now Paying out Steem Basic Income Memberships to Participants!
It's time for the weekly nature identification thread! Post pictures of plants, animals, rocks, or other cool stuff that you've photographed but can't identify, and I, along with…
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mountainwashere (65)in #scifi • 6 years ago
Book Review: Charles Stross' Laundry Files Series
Charles Stross' Laundry Files books are my single favorite series of spy thrillers, bar none. They're also my single favorite Lovecraftian horror series, bar none. I don't know…
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mountainwashere (65)in #geology • 6 years ago
Urban Geology Part 1: Manhattan
The character of any city will to a great degree be shaped by its underlying geology. Chicago's even, straight grid is possible thanks to its flat terrain. San Francisco's steep…
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mountainwashere (65)in #natures • 6 years ago
Nature Identification Thread #21- Now Paying out Steem Basic Income Memberships to Participants!
It's time for the weekly nature identification thread! Post pictures of plants, animals, rocks, or other cool stuff that you've photographed but can't identify, and I, along with…
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mountainwashere (65)in #science • 6 years ago
Philosophy of Science Part 3: Physics Envy
Part 1 , Part 2 There's a fantastic XKCD comic strip that discusses the relative "purity" of the sciences, ranking them with physics and math on top. And, indeed, in…
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mountainwashere (65)in #ecology • 6 years ago
How Humanity is Changing the Course of Evolution Part 3: Surviving the Asphalt Wasteland
Part 1 , Part 2 As heavily as the damage humanity has wrought upon the oceans has changed the course of evolution, the damage on land has done even more to shift the path…
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mountainwashere (65)in #comics • 6 years ago
Book Review: My Friend Dahmer, by Derf Backderf
I grew up in a hippy family, so there were always weird left wing newspapers that ran Derf Backderf's comic The City in them. The stiffly drawn (but deceptively difficult)…
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mountainwashere (65)in #nature • 6 years ago
Nature Identification Thread #20- Now Paying out Steem Basic Income Memberships to Participants!
It's time for the weekly nature identification thread! Post pictures of plants, animals, rocks, or other cool stuff that you've photographed but can't identify, and I, along with…
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mountainwashere (65)in #books • 6 years ago
Book Review Double Header: Annals of the Former World & Bretz's Flood
John Soennichsen's book Bretz's Flood falls into that strange confluence that you often find in better quality histories of geology. It's hard to describe adequately, but it…
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mountainwashere (65)in #books • 6 years ago
Book Review: N.K. Jemisin's Broken Earth Trilogy
N.K. Jemisin's Broken Earth trilogy is some of the best fantasy I've read in years- and it's also unique in being geological fantasy. Geological science fiction is certainly…
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mountainwashere (65)in #comics • 6 years ago
Book Review: Bone
In terms of sheer number of pages, Jeff Smith's all-ages comic Bone is by far the longest work I've ever recommended on Steemit- and it's more than worth reading all 1332…
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drwatson (70)in #fundition-t2b3d2ijh • 6 years ago
Ithaqa Steemit RPG Week 2! Last Weeks Winners + This Week's Contest
The results from our first week of Steem Lovecraftian goodness are here, you can check out the results in the comment section of last weeks post. Winners get 1 Steem, and a 100%…
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mountainwashere (65)in #nature • 6 years ago
Nature Identification Thread #19- Now Paying out Steem Basic Income Memberships to Participants!
It's time for the weekly nature identification thread! Post pictures of plants, animals, rocks, or other cool stuff that you've photographed but can't identify, and I, along with…
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mountainwashere (65)in #geology • 6 years ago
The Mightiest River in All of History: Geology of the Amazon River Basin (repost)
Ugh, I know, too many reposts. Life is crazy right now, what can I say? The Amazon river isn't just the biggest river on the Earth- it's the biggest river known throughout the…
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