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Melissa Scott’s career spans, at this point, four decades. Perhaps best known for her Astreiant fantasy novels (initially written with her late partner Lisa A. Barnett, and later alone), she’s also written innovative science fiction, space opera, and tie-in novels for
Stargate and
gen:Lock. Her most recent original novel, the space opera
Finders, came out from small press Candlemark and Gleam: a vivid and lively novel full of character and intrigue.
Now with
Water Horse (Candlemark and Gleam, June 2021) Scott returns to fantasy with a self-contained volume of war, weirdness, and people strained to their breaking point by a generations-long war.
Point of Brew: English wine a rare benefit of global warming
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Global warming and climate change are responsible for some odd things; the expansion of wine making in England, for example.
My elder son Robert is a well-invested beer drinker. He has a lovely bar set up in his sports room, with a draft-beer system that holds two pony kegs of different craft beers. The countertop bar handles advertise the choice available and the glassware is pristine, plentiful and shaped for ideal beer appreciation. Nothing could be improved.
Robert is also a spirits drinker: he has a good appreciation of scotches and also gins, although we differ profoundly on the choice of tonic for which (of course) only Schweppes will do.
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Subscriber only NEW residential lots of a Murwillumbah housing subdivision are expected to be released in the new year. Most of the Hundred Hills estate has been established for some time, but Hewittville Pty Ltd acquired the 12.58 hectares remaining of approved - but not yet developed - subdivision in 2017. There are a remaining 105 residential lots approved across the upcoming stage, and one final stage to follow. The upcoming stage will involve 36 new lots. After we purchased the site, we approached Tweed Shire Council with a proposal to change the staging of the development to deliver 36 premium lots to the market, development manager Grace Waugh said.