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  • Keeping Resin Warm with a ThermalVatBand

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    I’ve got a few resin printers, and even down here in the South, we get some cold temps. When I’m working in my garage workshop and it’s between 15-30°F, the resin gets pretty chilly. The stuff I like to use needs to be around 68°F for the viscosity and photopolymers to activate. They just don’t…

  • Degrading Orbits: Darkside Earther 2, Bradley Horner

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    I was just talking about how much of a slog I had in a prior book. This book was not like that. I had to tell myself to slow down… Slow down, Andy, it’s going to end, you need to enjoy it… NOOOO… flipflipflipflip… NOOOOOO…. WHAT DO YOU MEAN IT’S ENDING HERE? Yea. I got…

  • The Measurements of Decay, K.K. Edin

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    This is a book of seasons. It had good seasons, smart seasons, tough seasons, and just hard to comprehend ones.. I really couldn’t stay submerged in this book. I tried. I desperately tried, but it told me early on that I couldn’t read this at bedtime because it required more neurons to process and then…

  • Extracurricular Activities (The Machineries of Empire)

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    Shuos Jedao, the Fox in his youth. This quick tale showcases a light element into his past. It’s a very 007-esque romp and should take you a lunch or two to complete the journey. I enjoyed it, but I feel we lost some of the universes it lives in. Lee’s first foray into this universe…

  • The Freeze-Frame Revolution

    The Freeze-Frame Revolution

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    Peter Watts has written some pretty interesting tales, and this one has the hallmarks of something amazing, and by the looks of it, it’s the start. Let’s rewind. We have a working kind of generation ship whose goal is to leave Earth and set up an interstellar highway. The crew, engineered since birth for the…

  • Marked (Alex Verus #9)

    Marked (Alex Verus #9)

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    Alex Verus, my favorite episodic British mage. Alex has come a long way from his little storefront helping adepts and normies. He strides on the line between Light and Dark, mainly finding a path of survival through it all for himself and his little band of mages. Not much has changed in that. He is…

  • The Slow Regard of Silent Things (The Kingkiller Chronicle #2.5)

    The Slow Regard of Silent Things (The Kingkiller Chronicle #2.5)

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    Auri! I am so glad Patrick gave her a moment in the moonlight. During the other books, I would tell my wife how much I enjoyed this girl/woman who would take the inanimate and give them something more. Not quite a life, but a place in the world. It delighted me to read this novelette.…