ketchup A tomato-vinegar based sauce. Ketchup seems as American as apple pie (which itself is English, not American), but just like the pizza we know and love originated in Greece, so the tomato ketchup we use today has a history very different from Heinz 57. The origins of the word come from a Chinese dialect: [...]
Kren of the Mitchegai was the last book that Leo Frankowski published through a major publisher before his death in 2008. Ostensibly the third (of a seven-part series never to be completed) entry in the timeline begun in A Boy and His Tank, it spends most of its time narrating the life of Kren, an [...]
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Solaris is considered one of Polish writer Stanisław Lem’s greatest books—certainly, it’s his most popular, having been adapted for film three times. But, while the original book was written in Polish, there has not, and still is not, a direct Polish-to-English translation available. The book available in your neighborhood bookstore is in fact an English [...]
Although The Man in the High Castle probably takes the trophy for Philip K. Dick’s most well-known novel, it is followed closely by Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep, but this is mostly because the story was thrust into prominence by the success of Ridley Scott’s loose film adaptation known as Blade Runner. So closely [...]
If Mark Bowden can be considered a prominent author, it is likely because of Ridley Scott’s Blackhawk Down, a 2001 film based on Bowden’s book of the same name. In fact, Killing Pablo will also be a movie, to be released in 2011. Bowden is a journalist of sorts, whose forte is police or military [...]
I don’t think I’m spoiling too much when I say that Leo Frankowski’s The Adventures of Conrad Stargard series is unlike Twain’s A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court in more ways than one. Specifically, however, Twain’s cynicism left his protagonist unable to effect change in the past, whereas Frankowski’s hero effects so much change [...]
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