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Kindle-licious at Tor.com: Death from the Skies!

Posted on November 14th, 2008 in Reviews

Another post over at Tor.com, about a really great book:

This article also covers my thoughts on the Kindle edition of Death from the Skies!.

Tags: armageddon, asteroids, astronomy, black holes, death of the universe, destruction of the earth, EMPs from hell, end of days, end of time, gamma rays, mass extinction, meteors, philip plait, sunspots, tor.com, tor.com posts, x-rays

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