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Callum Roberts, Belén Urrutia: Océano de vida (Paperback, Alianza Editorial, Alianza)

¿Océano de muerte?

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La vida está irremediablemente imbricada con el soporte físico que la cobija: el planeta Tierra. Solamente esta estrecha unión puede explicar cómo cosas (petróleo, metales y otros recursos naturales) y seres vivos (madera, pescado, etc.) se comporten ante nuestra voracidad de forma similar. En realidad lo que hay detrás es mucho más simple: I) en el caso aquellos recursos o seres vivos que son capaces de renovarse así mismos (bien completando su ciclo biogeoquímico y quedando otra vez disponibles para su uso; bien por que se reproducen y se renuevan las poblaciones), si se excede su capacidad de renovación, éstos se agotan. II) En el caso de los no renovable, simplemente su cantidad económicamente rentable se agotará en uno u otro momento. image

En esta obra Callum Roberts nos va a hablar fundamentalmente de organismos marinos y cómo hemos afectado sus ecosistemas …

reviewed The Ghost Brigades by John Scalzi (Old Man's War, #2)

The Ghost Brigades are the Special Forces of the Colonial Defense Forces, elite troops created …

Where's John Perry?

Found as EN "boxed set" and read the trilogy (with Old Man's War & The Last Colony) in less than a week (nights mainly). Less entertaining than #1 IMHO, but "needed" to jump into #3

reviewed Salvation Lost by Peter F. Hamilton (Salvation Sequence, #2)

Enjoyable, although the sex is weird

Book 1 I was surprised but pleased the sex had toned down a bit. It's back again, although I'd concede it's I guess-sort-of-plot-relevant. I read this while unable to sleep so I struggled a lot with the far-future sci-fi gobbledegook. Reading it during the day might have been easier! Much like the Void books, once the sci-fi gets this far ahead it feels a bit comic fantasy.

Still enjoyable, still keen to read the last one.

reviewed Pandora's Star by Peter F. Hamilton (Commonwealth Saga, #1)

Horny sci-fi opera

After a break of reading PFH, I've started reading some of his books again. I still absolutely love Pandora's Star and Judas Unchained. I really liked his previous long space opera (Night's Dawn) but this universe feels a bit more fleshed out. Cars and trains (oh, the trains) have models and people clearly have preferences. There's discussions about sports and brands and TV and paying attention to some of it now rewards later on, but not in a major way.

The action is good, the science is fun, but unlike his next trilogy in this universe, it doesn't feel cartoonish. The Void Trilogy to me feels like a lot of technobabble and deus ex machina. Book 1 here starts well.

But it's difficult to ignore the sex. Everyone is constantly horny and having sex with at least one other person. In fact it is stated in the book that after …