Tag: Culture
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The Old Man and the Boy
On a beautiful clear day Two people sat on a park bench An old man and a young boy Watching the world pass by What is it like to be a child? The man asked the boy It’s been so long I cannot remember What it felt like to be so young Being young is…
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There’s No Place Like Home
Do you ever wonder what it is exactly that makes a home, well, a home? What it is that makes something more than just a collection of bricks and mortar and instead a home, somewhere special that you look forward to coming back to every day? I’ve been thinking about that quite a lot recently.…
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Startide Rising by David Brin
David Brin’s Uplift series is one of the most beloved of science fiction series. The Uplift Saga is populated by an array of strange aliens, characters and worlds, set in a future universe where no species can reach full sentience without the help of a patron race. The sequence began in 1979 with Sundiver, but…