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Seb Lee-Delisle

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Seb Lee-Delisle is a digital artist and speaker who specialises in large scale interactive light installations.
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Bone Silence
Alastair Reynolds - 2020-02-04
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Return to the third book in the Revenger Trilogy, for another thrilling tale of set among the stars . . .Quoins are accepted currency throughout the thousands of worlds of the Congregation. Ancient, and of unknown origin and purpose, people have traded with them, fought for them, and stolen quoin hordes from booby-trapped caches at risk to life and...
Seb Lee-Delisle
2022-11-01T17:24:56.000Z
@sallylait @andrewingram If you liked Becky Chambers then I recommend the Revenger series by Alistair Reynolds ( I also read his Revelation Space series, and they were OK but not nearly as enjoyable as the Revenger books, which are more of a space romp)      source
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Carrying the Fire
An Astronaut's Journeys
Michael Collins - 2019-04-16 (first published in 1974)
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Reissued with a new preface by the author on the fiftieth anniversary of the Apollo 11 journey to the moonThe years that have passed since Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin, and Michael Collins piloted the Apollo 11 spacecraft to the moon in July 1969 have done nothing to alter the fundamental wonder of the event: man reaching the moon remains one of the...
Seb Lee-Delisle
2021-04-28T18:46:12.000Z
His book is the best astronaut book      source
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Station Eleven
Emily St. John Mandel - 2014-09-09
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A National Book Award FinalistA PEN/Faulkner Award Finalist Kirsten Raymonde will never forget the night Arthur Leander, the famous Hollywood actor, had a heart attack on stage during a production of King Lear. That was the night when a devastating flu pandemic arrived in the city, and within weeks, civilization as we know it came to an end. Twenty...
Seb Lee-Delisle
2020-03-23T10:40:40.000Z
It’s such a great book, go get it!      source
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Children of Time
Adrian Tchaikovsky - 2018-12-11 (first published in 2015)
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A race for survival among the stars... Humanity's last survivors escaped earth's ruins to find a new home. But when they find it, can their desperation overcome its dangers?WHO WILL INHERIT THIS NEW EARTH?The last remnants of the human race left a dying Earth, desperate to find a new home among the stars. Following in the footsteps of their ancesto...
Seb Lee-Delisle
2020-02-13T21:12:21.000Z
@rem Oh that’s the spider one huh? Love that book, so unusual      source
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Shadow Captain
Alastair Reynolds - 2019-01-15
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Two sisters ran away from home to join the crew of a spaceship. They took on pirates, faced down monsters and survived massacres . . . and now they're in charge. Captaining a fearsome ship of their own, adventures are theirs for the taking - and there's hoards to loot and treasures to find in the darkest reaches of space. But the rules are also mor...
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Revenger
Alastair Reynolds - 2017-02-28
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The galaxy has seen great empires rise and fall. Planets have shattered and been remade. Amongst the ruins of alien civilizations, building our own from the rubble, humanity still thrives. And there are vast fortunes to be made, if you know where to find them.Captain Rackamore and his crew do. It's their business to find the tiny, enigmatic worlds ...