Non-Fiction
Recent Non-Fiction
Inside the Caves of Rotten Teeth - at AfricanWriter.com
...There is a wonderful quality to Barrett’s style of writing evident in From Caves of Rotten Teeth, from vivid descriptions and dialogue, to heart wrenching circumstance and fiendish plots. It is I feel written with a bold and noble spirit, one that shines to illuminate the good, bad, beautiful, grotesque, brave, cowardly, happy and insane. In this Barrett almost leaves no stone unturned, no matter what may crawl out into the light... Full Review at African Writer
Sergei Lukyanenko: The Night Watch - at Speak Without Interrutpion
Love is happiness, but only when you believe it will last forever. Even though every time it turns out to be a lie, it’s only faith that gives love its strength and its joy.”- Sergei Lukyanenko
Like a gust of fresh cold winter’s air on a midsummer’s day Russian author Sergei Vasilievich Lukyanenko steps up and revitalises a favourite fantasy world; presenting an eternal struggle between good and evil in a new and blinding light. With not a damn cape, count or coffin to be seen in a modern vivid urban Russia, replete with echoes of communism and the impact of free trade and the Mafia. Lukyanenko pulls no punches and drags you mercilessly into a world of gritty realism where there is a price to be paid for every thought, word and deed. With no fanfare or velvet build up, the unseen world of Twilight, inhabited by dark ones and light ones or known collectively as “others” is revealed. Read More
Yvonne Vera: The Fearless Taboo Queen - at Munyori Literary Journal
"I am against silence, the books I write try to undo the silent posture African women have endured over so many decades.” -Yvonne Vera.
Yvonne was born in 1964 and raised in Zimbabwe’s second largest city Bulawayo during British colonial and then Rhodesian minority oppression. Though Yvonne was somewhat graced by her families prominent status, her father was a prosperous well connected businessman and her uncle a former local football star and manager of a top hotel. Together they were both politically involved and friends of Joshua Nkomo who would become a pivotal figure in the 2nd Chimurenga or Zimbabwean Liberation Struggle. Her mother was a school teacher and early on extended her love of books over to her daughter to take up the mantle. Read More
The King of Sci-Fi Frank Herbert - at Speak Without Interrutpion
"The beginning of knowledge is the discovery of something we do not understand.” -Frank Herbert
Frank Herbert Jr. was born 1920 in Tacoma, Washington, USA, only son to Frank Herbert Sr. an auto-bus line operator between Tacoma and Aberdeen. When Frank was eight his family moved to a small farm in Burley, this grounded him in a rural childhood freedom that would birth his passion for the environment and societies, their politics, and their relationships to their environment. Frank was drawn to writing like a moth to the flame and began his writing career as a journalist for the Glendale Star at nineteen, fresh out of high school, determined and impatient to get started. Read More
How Alchemy changed the World #3
Part Three: Al-kimia transformed into Alchemie. As one star of Alchemy was fading another rose to the sky during Europe’s High Middle Ages. Fuelled by incoming Greek texts not seen since Roman times, and astounded by advanced Islamic texts, the Renaissance of the 12th century had begun. Kick started at the end of the Early Middle Ages by a Frenchman called Gerbert d'Aurillac, who under Roman Catholic monastic orders went to study mathematics in Spain. Once there, he was introduced to not only to the new Arabic mathematics but a far larger tree of knowledge of which mathematics was but a single branch, that of Alchemy itself. Read More
Part Two: The Spagyric Arts reborn as Al-kimia. 130 years after the fall of Roman Alexandria in 772CE, with Europe deep into the Dark Ages, one Abu Musa Jābir ibn Hayyān, more commonly known as Geber or Jabir, was born in Tus, Khorasan (present day
Part One: The Ancients. Back in the millennia between 5000BCE - 400BCE there arose in Ancient Egypt spearheaded by their living gods and presided over by the priestly orders, a new way of looking at and understanding the world. It was the first known catalogued studies focusing not only on the composition of the world around us, but also how that knowledge could be both, utilised and preserved. Shrouded in mystery, allegoric encryption, and ritual, held forth as decrees from the gods, Alchemy was born. Read More
Just when Moore’s Law seemed to be hitting a sponge wall of 45nm, IBM inconjunction with Paul Rothemund have paved the way right down to a possible 2nm or 2 billionths of a meter. Now if that wasn’t enough to have even the mildest of technophile’s wonder at the possible increase in processing speed and power that could ensue. There’s something for the SF enthusiast too, because this avenue of research could lead to the first commercial organically self-assembled nano circuit boards. Read More
There is a perfect storm gathering in the computing world, a storm that is set to scour present day computing into a strange and foreign landscape. One that could potentially see everyday home and business computing become a virtually inescapable cloud utility service like electricity or water. Except this utility service would be global and ultimately run by giants like Google, Microsoft, Sun, Cisco, Amazon etc. Read More
The Tree of Life, the Philosopher’s Stone, the Holy Grail; throughout human history the myth and legend of immortality and extended life has been a common cross cultural theme. Yet one that has always stayed obscured mysterious and decidedly out of reach, that is until now and the advent of genetic Biogerontology. At the
The concept and practise of crop rotation is not a new one there are ancient Roman, African and Asian archaeological references to its practice and theory. But it was not until 8 - 13 CE during the global Muslim Agricultural Revolution (MAR), that it became well known and widely introduced into global farming practises. It is only with the fairly new advent of inorganic pesticides and fertilisers that crop rotation lost favour and was mistakenly replaced. There is however a return to or innovation of these old practices through the systems of sustainable farming as seen in organic farming, permaculture, polyculture etc. It is becoming undeniably self-evident that modern petro-chemical reliant commercial farming is not only un-sustainable but increasingly damaging to the environment. Read More
The general theory that humans have essentially stopped evolving has never sat well with me. For why should that be the case, what could have told our DNA to stop adapting to its situation, like it has been doing since the first strand of DNA ever evolved in the first place? From the University of Utah comes a study which not only suggests that humans are indeed still evolving, but have actually been doing so at an accelerated rate since the advent of farming and the end of the last ice age some 10,000 years ago. Read More
The average human body produces .696 kilograms of solid waste every day, that’s 248 kilograms a year and 18,626 kilograms a lifetime (75). The city of
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