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Immoderate Greatness: Why Civilizations Fail
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Immoderate Greatness: Why Civilizations Fail

*Immoderate Greatness* explains how a civilization’s very magnitude conspires against it to cause downfall. Civilizations are hard-wired for self-destruction. They travel an arc from initial success to terminal decay and ultimate collapse due to intrinsic, inescapable biophysical limits combined with an inexorable trend toward moral decay and practical failure. Because our own civilization is global, its collapse will also be global, as well as uniquely devastating owing to the immensity of its population, complexity, and consumption.
 
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Tags: decay, collapse, Immoderate, Civilizations, global
Torchwood - Slow Decay
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Torchwood - Slow DecayTorchwood - Slow Decay

Separate from the government; outside the police, beyond the United Nations; Torchwood sets its own rules. A team of investigators, using alien technology to solve crime - both alien and human. This new British sci-fi crime thriller, created by Russell T. Davies, sees them delve into the unknown. A group of people fighting the impossible. The series stars Captain Jack Harkness, last seen in Doctor Who. This novel is a brand-new Torchwood story.
 
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Tags: Torchwood, crime, alien, fighting, impossible, Decay, group
On the Decay of the Art of Lying
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On the Decay of the Art of LyingOn the Decay of the Art of Lying

A very short but quite funny examination of the sad state ot that most noble and necessary art: lying. This short essay is in the same vein as Eramus's In Praise of Folly, and just as satisfying.
Once again, Mark Twin is the master of essays, this time about lying. It's done in an over the top fashion, making you realize that we're all liars on a daily basis, and we do it reflexively but that it's a dying art.
Twain argues that we don't lie for the right reasons, and we need to address that. The essay is a bit short but still poignant even today. Twain's at his best.
 
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Tags: short, essay, Twain, lying, dying, Decay
Torchwood: Slow Decay by Andy Lane
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Torchwood: Slow Decay by Andy LaneTorchwood: Slow Decay by Andy Lane

When Torchwood track an energy surge to a Cardiff nightclub, the team finds the police are already at the scene. Five teenagers have died in a fight, and lying among the bodies is an extraterrestrial device. Next morning, they discover the corpse of a Weevil, its face and neck eaten away, seemingly by human teeth...
 
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Tags: Torchwood, discover, morning, extraterrestrial, corpse, Decay, device
East of the Sun, West of the Moon
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East of the Sun, West of the MoonEast of the Sun, West of the Moon

When the council that controlled the world-spanning computer Mother fell out in civil war, it plunged the world in an instant from high-tech utopia to medieval nightmare. Now Herzer Herrick and Megan Trevante have been assigned the mission to capture the spaceship that supplies the fuel for all of Earth. Given that Herzer vaguely thinks orbital decay is something having to do with teeth it should be . . . interesting. East of the Sun and West of the Moon sheds new light on the bizarre relationship between Herzer and Megan...
 
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Tags: Herzer, world, Megan, usual, combat, thinks, orbital, decay