Hooray! It's the last day of March, it's been a hard month for me and I'm glad to see the end of it. I'm was working on a new Video series for Treasures from the Bookshelf and Ask Wolf , so hopefully work will recommence on these and they will be rolling out in the coming months.   Well, now that it's the weekend it's time to kick back and relax with your favourite beverage and some interesting reading.  I've added a few lists of books that look interesting, following the 2017 theme of dystopia and rebellion  Hopefully you'll find one which sparks your interest.

From an idea for an atmospheric overhaul for Mars to more on basic universal income to advice on internet trolls there's an article here for you to read this weekend. So when it's time to relax this weekend, grab your favourite beverage and have read more and think more...

The weekend is once again upon us. If you get some  time to relax this weekend, grab your favourite beverage and have a read of the following articles. Don't forget to check out my latest article. A discussion of the classic Science Fiction novel   Downward to the Earth by Robert Silverberg   A Journey Towards Redemption or Damnation | Downward to the Earth Now on to the rest of the articles...

A few articles for your weekend reading.

In the late 1980’s I used to visit my favourite library almost daily, and there in the science fiction section, books by Robert Silverberg dominated. As far as I recall, I would have read most of the titles that library had collected but 30 years on, I have no recollection of any of these stories. I can remember loving the fantasy aspects of Lord Valentine's Castle and the archaeological detective work in Across a Billion Years but then the rest of the stories and titles seem to have been lost in a fog of memory. There are flashes of other stories, an alternate universe where the Black Death killed off 2/3rds of the European population which enabled the Aztecs to discover and colonise Europe as The New World . There was also one about a human slave, with three eagle tattoos who was travelling through an interstellar empire on some sort of task. Suffice to say Silverberg wasn’t a one story author, I could count on reading a fresh story, whenever I picked up one of his books....

Welcome to the weekend. This week we look at Shakespeare and Universal Basic Income plus a few others topics. I hope you find something of interest. So sit back with your favourite beverage this weekend to read more and think more.