It was SO hot today...and the air conditioner in the office seemed to be malfunctioning, I barely made it home. Stopped at the mall on my way from the uni to the bus station, cooled myself down a little and also bought an ice coffee. And I was lucky that a taxi came almost immediately, so I didn't have to wait long at the station ( Read more... )

After recommending hieronymousb Michael Crichton's "Timeline" yesterday, I thought that perhaps there are Russian sci-fi books which I might also recommend her. I thought of Alexander Belyaev, with his excellent "Professor Dowell's head" or "The man that found his face"...alas. When I searched the Amazon for English translations, I found only that of "The ( Read more... )