Reading and reflecting on textbook

TIME MACHINE

                                                       -H.G. Wells

                        

 

                    

The Time Machine by H.G. Wells is a science fiction novel, published in 1985, and written as a frame narrative. The work is generally credited with the popularization of the concept of time travel by using a vehicle or a device to travel purposely and selectively forward or backward through time.

 

 

 

MIDNIGHT IN CHERNOBYL

                                                                                 Adam Higginbotham

                                    

 

                                

Midnight in Chernobyl: The Untold Story of the World's Greatest Nuclear Disaster (2019) by Adam Higginbotham is a history of the Chernobyl nuclear disaster that occurred in Soviet Ukraine in 1986. It won the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Nonfiction in 2020. Higginbotham spent more than a decade interviewing eyewitnesses and reviewing documents from the disaster including some that were recently declassified. Higginbotham considers it the first English-language account that is close to the truth i.e. free of Soviet propaganda.

 

 

OUT OF THE SILENT PLANET

                                                         -C.S. Lewis

 

 

                                     

 

            In Out of the Silent Planet, C.S.Lewis depicts an almost idyllic society on the planet of Malacandra, known to earthlings as Mars. It is the first book of C.S. Lewis’s space trilogy. In it, he employs many common science fiction tropes: the use of space travel, the discovery of extra terrestrial life and the difficulty of communicating with aliens, to name a few. Lewis’s depiction of alien society may seem simplistic in its harmony, but it contrasts will with the evil on Earth, as represented in the figure of Weston and Devine.

 

 

THE POISONER’S HANDBOOK

                                                                                              -Deborah Blum

 

    

                   

 

            The Poisoner’s handbook is structured like a collection of linked short stories. Each chapter centers on a mysterious death by poison that Norris and Gettler investigate, but the reader never gets to know these principles well enough to find out what drives their tireless devotion to scientific inquiry.