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City of Stars (Stravaganza)
$8.26
Great read. Especially for those about to travel to Italy. Gives an alternative Italy on a separate plain to ours, however the time travel element is fascinating and well played out. I love the historical mix up of ages and knowledge. An excellent very readable series which can be read independently and still enjoyed.

Star Trek Science Blue Uniform T-Shirt, XX-Large
$17.75
nice shirt (soft) bad ink weak. patch is a small screen print. Maybe I missed that, or thought it was more substantial.

LEGO Star Wars V-19 Torrent
$54.99
The torrent is one of lego's best sets ever! Now if your wondering, the cock pit can fit your clone pilot's(a very rare and cool minifig) sniper gun(behind the seat). The only thing I would be careful about is that this is a higher level set, I'v been doing legos for 6 years(I'm 11)and it was a friendly challenge. Includes some rare parts such as a super long axles that can come in handy for most projects. I think that a thing most people wonder when they see the box is were do you hold it, I think the best thing to do is hold the middle wing. For me the most frustrating thing is that sometimes the slide-out cock pit sometimes dosn't slide back in and you have to fiddle with it a little. The only other thing is that the flick-fire torpedoes are pretty much bombs. Over all, this is a nice set if you are a lego master pretty much.

The City and the Stars and the Sands of Mars
$14.95
One of his earliest novel's, Arthur C. Clarke's The City and the Stars is an awe-inspiring tale about the human desire to explore. As one would expect of something written in the 1950's, much of the story's astrophysics is dated. We are currently in a golden age of astronomy, with major discoveries published almost every month.

But the computer science is breathtakingly accurate in its anticipation of so-called distributed computing.

Like most of Clarke's work, this novel is optimistic, something typical of the science-fiction of actual scientists. Clarke studied physics and mathematics at King's College, London, and wrote the seminal paper on communications satellite systems. (For one short story, he did sixteen pages of orbital calculations!) It is not surprising that trained scientists would write optimistic science-fiction. They believe in science, or they would not have studied it.

The City and the Stars is inspirational, filled with scientific verisimilitude and human authenticity. And in its imagery as well as in its language, it is poetry.