Mercredi, 31 juillet 2024
Traduction: [ Google | Babelfish ]
Catégories : [ Livres/The Hainish Cycle ]
![ISBN: 9781598535389](https://weber.fi.eu.org/blog/images/isbn1598535382.thumbnail.jpg)
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Rocannon is part of a survey team on an unnamed planet orbiting Formalhaut II
where four different intelligent species have developed. All the other members
on Rocannon's team have been killed by people from the Faraday system who have
installed a secret military base with the intent on conquering planets from
the interstellar League of All Worlds. With the enemy now controlling the only
means of contacting the League, Rocannon wants to reach the base and use their
ansible to reveal the location of the base. Rocannon travels on the back of
windsteeds, by boat and walking, in the company of members of the Angyar
culture of the Liuar species, on the northern continent. They meet with a
members of the Fiia who guides the for a while, are made prisoner by
cave-dwelling Gdemiar who wants to burn Rocannon (he survives thanks to his
high-tech protective suit) and by the Winged Ones. The latter, a hive society,
have captured them to feed on them, and they manage to escape only thanks to
the Kiemhrir. In the mountains near his goal, Rocannon encounters an entity
that gives him a form of telepathy. He finally reaches the enemy' base and
contacts the League, leading soon after in its destruction; having felt
telepathically the hundreds of deaths of his enemies, Rocannon feels guilty
and is traumatized. Rocannon then retires among the Angyar of the southern
continent, waiting for rescuers from the League. However, as humans cannot
survive FTL travel, he has to wait at least eight years for anyone to reach
him and dies before they arrive, not knowing the planet is now named after
him.
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Dimanche, 28 juillet 2024
Traduction: [ Google | Babelfish ]
Catégories : [ Bière/Thornbridge ]
“classic US hops (Chinook Cascade, Amarillo, Columbus)… aromas of pine and
citrus… caramel sweetness, flavours of orange and peach”
Just another ale. Contains malted barley an wheat.
Thornbridge brewery, Bakewell, Derbyshire, England. 5.0% alcohol.
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Lundi, 22 juillet 2024
Traduction: [ Google | Babelfish ]
Catégories : [ Bière/Brewdog ]
Roasted, chocolate, coffee flavours. Contains malted barley.
BrewDog Ltd., Ellon, Scotland. 4.1% alcohol
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Traduction: [ Google | Babelfish ]
Catégories : [ Livres/The Bromeliad ]
![ISBN: 9780552546072](https://weber.fi.eu.org/blog/images/isbn0552546070.thumbnail.jpg)
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Masklin (along with Angalo and Gurder) are searching for Grandson
Richard,
as the Thing has told him that it could call their spaceship if it could get
aboard the communications satellite Richard is going to launch. The nomes
first go to the airport where they quietly board Concorde and fly to Florida.
After causing some trouble on the plane, they hide in Richard's luggage and
end up in his hotel room. They however have to flee and end up outside where
they meet a tribe of Nomes who speak a language close to ancient Nomish. They
manage to communicate thanks to the Thing and the local Nomes fly them to the
space shuttle's launch site on geese (thanks to which they migrate yearly
between Alaska and Florida). Near the shuttle, the Thing uploads itself into
the satellite and exhausts in doing so all the power it had stored. After the
takeoff, Masklin decides to take it to a human building to let it recharge
itself near electrical wires. He is caught (on purpose) by humans but manages
to escape with the recharged Thing as the Nomes' spaceship arrives and Angalo
and Gurder board it. Masklin then by chance meets Richard, with whom he
discusses briefly as the Nome's spaceship, piloted by Angalo, lands again and
let him board. They then fly away back to Britain after making a detour
through South America where they pick up a Bromeliad flower that Masklin
gives to Grimma before taking the Nomes. Gurder decides to stay on Earth to
search for other Nome tribes, tell them of their origins and give them the
possibility to migrate to a Nome planet the next time the spaceship would
visit Earth.
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Samedi, 20 juillet 2024
Traduction: [ Google | Babelfish ]
Catégories : [ Livres/The Bromeliad ]
![ISBN: 9780552546072](https://weber.fi.eu.org/blog/images/isbn0552546070.thumbnail.jpg)
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The nomes
have resettled in a closed quarry. When they discover that the quarry will
soon reopen, they wonder what to do, and consider moving to a barn on the
other side of the field. Reading a newspaper article about Arnold Bros'
grandson who who is traveling to Florida on business about a communication
satellite, Masklin decides to leave with a few nomes and find more about the
grandson. In the meanwhile winter comes and covers the ground with snow,
making it impossible for the younger and elder nomes to travel to the barn.
As humans come to reopen the quarry, Grimma has to oppose a rising religious
nome who promises that faith in Arnold Bros will solve all their problems;
that nome is accidentally killed by humans. The nomes sabotage a truck in an
attempt to prevent the humans to enter the quarry, lead by Dorcas who make
them steal the battery and diesel fuel, but the truck accidentally rolls onto
the railways tracks and causes an accident. More humans come to the quarry,
put poisoned bait to eliminate what they believe to be rats. Dorcas and his
nomes, who had been lost outside after the accident, is finally found and
presents his plan: he has found and repaired a JCB digger in shed, and
proposes to use it to take all the nomes to the barn. The drive out among
amazed humans, but are chased by the police. The eventually get stuck on the
top of a hill, when a spaceship appears above them.
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Mardi, 16 juillet 2024
Catégories : [ Cuisine/Chocolats ]
Cachet, Costa Rica 71% : un peu amer et astringent, cacaoté.
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Lundi, 15 juillet 2024
Traduction: [ Google | Babelfish ]
Catégories : [ Livres/Roger Rabbit ]
Roger hires Eddie to check if his wife indeed cheats on him with Clark Gable,
as the tabloids claim. Soon after, Eddie is also hired by Selznick who want
him to find a small metal box that had disappeared after a triple interview
with Roger, Baby Herman and Enigman for his next film, Gone with the Wind.
Eddie first suspects Enigman, but the latter gets killed with Eddie's gun as
the detective is interviewing him at his home. Suspected by the police,
Eddie's investigation leads him to a shady rum dealer who is later murdered.
Eddie is also hired by Clarke who suspects his girlfriend Carol Lombard to
cheat on him. Roger is also suspected of murder, but it's his cousin Dodger
who is also after the box that framed him, only to be murdered soon after.
With Roger and Clark as sidekicks, Eddie discover that the box contains the
formula for the Toon Tonic that can transform a toon into a human and vice
versa, and Selznick's right hand, Pepper Potts, is the toon behind the
murders. Eddie recovers the box from Roger's coverall pocket (where Baby had
put it to reduce the competition for Selznick's film). Roger makes some of the
Toon Tonic and becomes another human in the crowd. Eddied eventually agrees
with Potts to exchange the box against Jessica and her twin sister Joellyn
(who is only 6 inches tall) whom Potts had abducted. During the encounter,
Eddie gets wounded, Potts gets killed, but the two women are found and saved
by the police. Roger decides to become a toon again and gives Eddie the
leftover tonic for safekeeping, after having burnt the formula. Selznick then
explains Eddie he knows nothing of Potts' dealings and that he had bought the
formula from the rum dealer in the hope of making enough money from it that he
would be able to produce his film; Eddie suggests he makes the film with human
actors and with a serious tone instead. Jessica then explains Roger that she
leaked the rumors of her infidelity to the press to make Carol jealous and
open to Clark's marriage proposal; the plot succeeds. Jessica and Roger also
get triplet children. There is also a side story with Eddie's lost brother
Freddy who had disappeared but is actually happily living his life as a toon
and Eddie's sister Heddy whom he suspects of being a toon pretending to be a
human married to a toon cop.
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Vendredi, 12 juillet 2024
Catégories : [ Livres/BD/Spirou ]
![ISBN: 9782808501941](https://weber.fi.eu.org/blog/images/isbn2808501943.thumbnail.jpg)
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En 1961, Spirou et Fantasio se rendent à New York pour interviewer Castro lors
d'un discours à l'ONU. Ils y retrouvent Longplaying à qui ils donnent un GAG
amélioré, sans savoir qu'il travaille pour la CIA. Deux agents utilisent
Spirou, le prenant pour un groom, pour un attentat contre Castro, et les
hommes de ce dernier kidnappent Spirou et l'emmènent à Cuba. Les agents y
envoient alors Fantasio, armé du GAG, reprendre contact avec la rébellion
pro-USA. À Cuba, Seccotine est en reportage et rencontre Guevara. Lors d'une
réception où elle est invitée par ce dernier, elle rencontre Fantasio déguisé
en clown. Suite à une altercation causée par le Marsupilami, les deux
journalistes s'enfuient et se réfugient dans la forêt, où ils sont faits
prisonniers par les rebelles. Après avoir réussi à s'expliquer, Seccotine part
de son coté pour tenter de libérer Spirou en prévenant la police que les
américains préparent une attaque, mais finit par être mise par Guevara en
prison, dans la même cellule que Spirou. De son coté, Fantasio et les rebelles
préparent une attaque contre la prison et parviennent à libérer les deux
prisonniers. Ils apprennent de Guevara que Castro, qui s'est emparé du GAG, va
participer à la défense contre les américains et se cachent dans son avion,
faisant échouer son plan et détruisant le GAG.
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Lundi, 8 juillet 2024
Traduction: [ Google | Babelfish ]
Catégories : [ Livres/The Bromeliad ]
![ISBN: 9780552546072](https://weber.fi.eu.org/blog/images/isbn0552546070.thumbnail.jpg)
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A handful of nomes live in a burrow at a rest area along the motorway. Life
being very hard, they decide to hop on a lorry and leave, in the hope for a
better life. The lorry stops in the garage of the Arnold Bros department store
where they meet a community of two thousand nomes who has been living there
for generations and mostly refuses to believe there exists an Outside. The
newcomers have a black box, transmitted from generation to generation, that
starts to speak to them as it comes near electrical wiring; it explains that
the nomes have crashed on Earth in a spaceship fifteen thousand years ago and
that it is a flight recorder. The nomes had attempted to teach technology to
the humans in order to get them to build a space shuttle that could fly them
to their mothership, but it failed. When the nomes discover that the store is
about to be closed, they plan to escape by stealing a lorry. As the closure
happens faster than expected, they have to steal a lorry (thankfully loaded
with plenty of useful items) in a hurry and learn to drive (with the help of
numerous levers and pulleys) as they escape. They eventually find shelter in
a quarry near the airport and contemplate stealing an airplane.
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Vendredi, 5 juillet 2024
Catégories : [ Livres/BD/Yoko Tsuno ]
![ISBN: 9782808504942](https://weber.fi.eu.org/blog/images/isbn2808504942.thumbnail.jpg)
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En Écosse, Bonnie et Émilia obeservent des moines dans un monastère en ruines,
mais ces derniers disparaissent. Le lendemain, un moine explique à Yoko
que'ils cherchent les traces historique d'un animal satanique qui a habité
les lieux au moyen-âge. Cecilia montre alors à Yoko une patte d'aigle en or,
trouvée une siècle plus tôt. Plus tard, le moine révèle à Yoko les deux
versions de l'histoire de l'aigle, soit tué par les moines, soit enlevé par
des démons dans une machine entourée d'une spirale de lumière. Yoko contacte
alors Zarkâ qui explique que l'aigle, synthétique, avait été mis en place par
les Vinéens pour surveiller les moines 800 ans plus tôt. Zhyttâ vient alors
chercher Yoko à la demande de la déesse Brigit. Mais Monya arrive alors avec
le translateur temporel, et Yoko décide de plutôt l'accompagner à l'époque de
l'aigle 800 ans plus tôt. Elles arrivent juste après l'incendie du monastère
et rencontrent Sébastien, un jeune moine qui les explique que les moines sont
surveillés par d'autres moines-alchimistes qui fréquentent Lucifer,
apparemment un extraterrestre. Les moines confient à Yoko l'aigle qu'ils
gardent prisonnier, et elles repartent vers le présent avec l'aigle et
Sébastien. À leur retour, elles voient que Khâny est arrivée et repartent avec
elle au temple des immortelles pour faire réparer l'aigle par Zhyttâ, qui est
partie en avance. Au temple. Yoko présente Sébastien à Brigit, puis rejoint
Zarkâ auprès du sarcophage où survit une créature que Zarkâ décrit comme avoir
été imposé pour gérer la Terre, et qui a crée Zarkâ. De peur d'être détruite
par Yoko, la créature, qui ressemble au Lucifer des moines du passé, les force
à fuir.
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Catégories : [ Livres/BD/Aquablue ]
![ISBN: 9782413043775](https://weber.fi.eu.org/blog/images/isbn2413043772.thumbnail.jpg)
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Suite à un accident, Rabah est devenu un légume. Carlo a fait construire un
nouveau Stromboli, mais a besoin d'argent pour le payer. Nao et lui sont
enlevés par Ragnar le pirate qui a besoin d'un courrier pour échanger de l'or
contre des otages. Ragnar travaille avec un scientifique peu scrupuleux qui
affirme pouvoir guérir Rabah. Nao accepte, en échange de laisser Ragnar
établir une base sur Aquablue. Carlo et Nao récupèrent les otages et
parviennent à garder l'or, grâce à une dissension entre deux factions des
kidnappeurs, une espèce insectoïde. Rabah est soigné par le scientifique
pendant que l'autre faction d'insectoïdes attaquent la base de Ragnar pour
reprendre l'or. Une fois les attaqunts repoussés, Rabah se réveille et prend
possession de son nouveau Stromboli.
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Catégories : [ Livres/BD/Les quatre de Baker Street ]
![ISBN: 9782749310107](https://weber.fi.eu.org/blog/images/isbn2749310105.thumbnail.jpg)
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Patch, le roi des brigands fait enlever Puck par Scabs afin de contraindre Tom
à voler, dans le musée privé de Scotland Yard, une lettre écrite par Jack
l'éventreur. Lorsqu'il lui livre la lettre, Patch dit à Tom de se débrouiller
avec Scabs libérer Puck. Tom s'enfuit grâce à l'aide de son ami le vieux
Bailey. Billy et Charlie trouvent la cachette où Scabs a enfermé Puck et le
libèrent. Holmes est cependant mécontent que Tom lui ait caché son problème et
soit allé voler la lettre. Quand Tom découvre que Patch a fait tuer Bailey,
il retourne chez Patch pour se venger. Ce dernier lui propose de tue Scabs,
mais Tom refuse. Patch, qui vient de faire enlever Charlie, exige que Tom
revienne dans sa bande de voleurs. Tom accepte pour sauver son amie. Charlier
demande alors de l'aide à Watson, qui va exiger la libération de Tom. Bones,
le tueur dont Patch use pour contrôler les autre brigands par la peur se fait
tuer et ces derniers se débarrassent de leur roi. Holmes récupère la lettre
chez un ancien policier du Yard qui revend ds relique criminelles à des
collectionneurs sans scrupule, mais bannit Tom des Irréguliers pour avoir mis
en péril sa réputation professionnelle.
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Catégories : [ Livres/BD/Midi minuit ]
![ISBN: 9782302093478](https://weber.fi.eu.org/blog/images/isbn230209347X.thumbnail.jpg)
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Sur fond de campagne présidentielle, Belton enquête sur la source d'une
drogue frelatée qui tue nombre de ses utilisateurs. Une femme masquée appelée
Foudre cherche elle aussi le fournisseur, qui est un criminel masqué appelé
Crâne. Josh s'infiltre dans l'organisation de Kenler, un baron de la droguer
connu (aussi candidat à l'élection), tandis que Jenna devient danseuse dans le
cabaret de Melvik, connu pour diffuser la drogue. Josh est fait prisonnier par
Crâne au cours d'une opération de Kenler pour se débarrasser de son rival, et
est libéré par Foudre. Cette dernière est capable d'utiliser les miroirs pour
se déplacer. Jenna se fait inviter à dîner chez Melvik où elle est attaquée
par Crâne et sauvée par Foudre. Plus tard, lorsque Marnie surveille
l'appartement de Melvik, elle le voit s'échanger avec Crâne grâce à un miroir
et se battre contre Foudre. Crâne est démasqué et arrêté, mais Foudre
s'échappe.
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Mercredi, 3 juillet 2024
Traduction: [ Google | Babelfish ]
Catégories : [ Livres/The Gap Cycle ]
![ISBN: 9781473225527](https://weber.fi.eu.org/blog/images/isbn1473225523.thumbnail.jpg)
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Morn
has been rescued by Nick's pirate. The ship's computer expert is killed
by Nick for having attempted to rape her just after having boasted that he
planted a virus in the ship's computer. Morn, needing to be useful to the ship
to avoid being killed, claims she can flush the virus. To bear being raped by
Nick, she accidentally sets her zone implant so that she takes pleasure in it,
slowly making Nick fall in love with her. Thanks to the device, she also works
continuously for days and successfully gets rid of the virus. She also
discovers being pregnant (from Angus) but leads Nick to believe he is the
father. As a spaceship is no place to rise a child, Nick decides to go to the
Amnion outpost and trade some of his blood for getting the baby extracted and
artificially grown close to adulthood. As the Amnions cannot create a new
mind, the boy, Davies, receives Morn's memories. The Amnions are specialists
in genetics and want to mutate humans to turn them into Amnions; until now the
process is imperfect and most humans are frightened of them, but as Nick seems
to be an agent of UMCP (the mining corporation's all-powerful police) he has
access to an anti-mutagenic drug that UMCP has kept a secret. The Amnions
notice that Nick has cheated when donating his blood and demand Davies in
reparation. As Nick seems willing to agree to that deal, Morn rigs a
self-destruct of the ship and threatens to blow up the Amnion's outpost if
they don't leave with Davies. The pirate ship manages to leave to a human
outpost but an Amnion cruiser blocks their way. Nick has locked Morn in her
cabin and has humiliated her as a revenge for manipulating him in multiple
ways. He agrees to transfer Davies to the Amnion ship in an escape pod, but
Morn manages to escape and change the pod's programming and send it to the
human outpost. Nick also sends a secret message to UMCP, who then sends Angus
Thermopyle, turned into a cyborg against his will, to capture her.
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