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At the age of 98, James Lovelock, known for the Gaya Hypothesis and one of the great minds of our age, has given us a remarkably visionary glimpse of the future of humanity and its situation here on Earth.

He argues that we are now coming to the end of the human-dominated Anthropocene age and moving into the dawn of a new era, the novacene. In this rapidly approaching future of hyperintelligent machines that think ten thousand times faster than humans, these new “beings” will take the leadership in managing the Earth’s ecological as well as other systems.

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These Blue Mountains by Sarah Loudin Thomas,

A moving story of love, betrayal, and the enduring power of hope in the face of darkness.

German pianist Hedda Schlagel's world collapsed when her fiancé, Fritz, vanished after being sent to an enemy alien camp in the United States during the Great War. Fifteen years later, in 1932, Hedda…

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