Science fiction booksReviewThis sophisticated novel addresses who we areSome authors fill a novel with futuristic scenery and jargon and then strenuously, even stertorously, deny that it's science fiction. No, no, they don't write that nasty stuff, never touch it. They write literature. Though curiously familiar with the tropes and conventions of the despised genre, they so blithely ignore the meaning of terms, they reinvent the wheel with such cries of self-admiration, that their endeavours seem a doomed effort to prove that one can write a novel without learning how.

Elijah McClainEx-police officer sentenced to 14 months in jail for killing Elijah McClain in 2019Randy Roedema, found guilty of criminally negligent homicide, is the first official to be sentenced in the 23-year-old’s killing A former Colorado police officer convicted in the 2019 killing of Elijah McClain was sentenced to 14 months in county jail on Friday. Randy Roedema, an ex-Aurora police department (APD) officer, was found guilty of criminally negligent homicide and third-degree assault in October.

World newsGreece tackles its image as a state of racistsPoll underlines urgency of anti-discrimination billGreeks found guilty of discriminating against religious or ethnic groups will face up to a year in prison under legislation presented by the Athens government in attempts to quash a rise in racist incidents. The measure, included in a new anti-discrimination law, follows a rash of confrontations with the growing immigrant population. One attack prompted a protest by Pakistani migrants in Athens.

Montana This article is more than 4 months oldGrizzly bear that mauled woman in July killed after breaking into Montana homeThis article is more than 4 months oldBear was involved in fatal attack on Amie Adamson, 48, about eight miles from West Yellowstone A grizzly bear that fatally mauled a woman on a forest trail west of Yellowstone national park in July and also attacked a person in Idaho three years ago was killed after it broke into a house near West Yellowstone over the weekend, Montana wildlife officials said.

Sexual healingLife and styleI have experienced an unpleasant pulsing sensation – but that seems a far cry from how an orgasm is usually described I have a question that you might find slightly weird so, from the outset, I would like to stress that, despite how ridiculous it sounds, I am a 25-year-old woman and I have never learned how to masturbate. I have touched myself occasionally, but always given up long before reaching anything like orgasm.