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    Hannibal - TV Series

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    They've changed quite a bit of the back-story of the main characters, even swapping story-lines between them. I'm not going to bother mentioning the obvious casting changes.

     

    Clarice Starling makes an appearance as Miriam, An FBI Trainee, Hannibal " Better to call yourself an Agent in Training" She notices a wound pattern, where a hunter is shot with an arrow and sees a statue in Hannibal's House. A La Red Dragon and Graham.

     

    JackM Science Fiction 2014

    in Past Book Logs

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    Cities In Flight - James Blish Sfm

    Originally published in four volumes, explores a future built on two crucial discoveries: Antigravity devices - 'Sindizzies' - which allow whole cities to be lifted from the Earth to become giant spaceships, and Longevity drugs which enable their inhabitants to live for thousands of years. As Earth stagnates, one by one the cities depart to the stars, leading to the establishment of a unique Galactic empire.

     

    They Shall Have Stars

    The first story is about a company working on a government contract to produce a Longevity drug and are also working on trying to produce a reliable system of anti-gravity. There wasn't really much detail on how these technologies were supposed to work. It was more a story about the relationships of people involved in the project and the politics of government appropriation.

    There is a group of people leading the project and most of the story is based around them. Colonel Paige Russell is a spaceman who whilst working his normal job in space collects soil samples from planets he visits. He visits the company to try to find out what they do with them and gets forced to join the project.

     

     

    A Life For The Stars

    The second story seems to have the tech sorted out so far. A city has taken off to venture into space, making deals along the way to help them survive.

    It had a slow start, but I enjoyed it more than the first one. It has a mix of adventure and  plotting. I liked the characters and the story was good.

    It still took me five days to read it, but that was because I have been watching Babylon 5 and Hannibal.

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