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Domination: The Fall of the Roman Empire and the Rise of Christianity

by Alice Roberts

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"Prof Roberts is an excellent communicator on the telly, but I'm finding this a bit of a slog tbh. I'm gonna have to take a break and read something a bit fun as I'm finding this like a preamble to a history test. Sorry Alice!" — May 04, 2026 09:16AM

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In My Time Of Dying (DS Hutton #5) by Douglas Lindsay

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However, like all care homes, the first thing that greets you is the smell of death. OK, not death. Piss.

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“All novels are fantasies. Some are more honest about it.”
― Gene Wolfe

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“The future is already here – it's just not evenly distributed.”
― William Gibson

tags: future, planning

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“There are two kinds of fools. One says, "This is old, and therefore good." And one says, " This is new, and therefore better.”
― John Brunner, The Shockwave Rider

tags: fool, foolish, wisdom

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“There’s a faint popping noise, and the entire wall of the incident room shifts to the colour of the night sky above a Japanese city.”
― Charles Stross, Halting State

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