BOOK REVIEW: Stories spun from the Silk Road (The Charlotte Observer) PDF Print E-mail
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Wednesday, 18 July 2007

Colin Thubron, the intrepid, erudite author of numerous travel books, has once again undertaken an odyssey of Homeric proportions. This time he's ventured over 5,000 miles across the entire length and breadth of the Silk Road, through some of the most dangerous territory on the planet - Xian in China to Antioch on the Turkish Mediterranean, with stops along the way at Jiayuguan, Huatuguo, ...

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BOOK REVIEW: Iranian riches, rags, and carpets (The Charlotte Observer)
What do you do if your dad disappears? That question takes on even greater significance in a patriarchal society and it's the one confronting by two Iranian girls living 300 years apart. In "The Septembers of Shiraz" set in 1981 Iran, Shirin Amin's father is grabbed at work by the Revolutionary Guards for the double crime of having lived well under the shah and for being Jewish. The unnamed ...

Book Review: IT Manager Battles The Undead In "The Atrocity Archive" (InformationWeek)
You don't have many IT-manager action heroes in science fiction. Sure, you have a lot of hackers, breaking into networks and subverting authority. But not a lot of science-fiction heroes save the universe in between staff meetings, working the help desk, and rebooting the file server.

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