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Quotation marks, underlining or italics to indicate a title. The author brings out the perfectionism in a world full of abundance, technology, information, organization and order. But this giant planet takes a long time to go around the sun. Of the many mysterious and unexplained events that have happened on earth over millions of years, mass extinctions are perhaps the most perplexing. Hurricanes are major storms that form over warm ocean water and are caused by global weather patterns. The long earth imagines a seeming infinitude of alternate earths, but it does so with a reasonable degree of scientific rigor. The long earth is a brilliant science fiction collaboration with stephen baxter. It shows us the ancient history to which characters in the lord of the rings look back, talk, rhyme and sing about. The long ride by marina tamar budhos in new york in 1971, jamila and josie are bused across queens where they try to fit in at a new, integrated junior high.
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