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“Echoes of Apollo” by George Thompson is the sort of space faring technothriller that Tom Clancy would have been proud to have placed his name on if he was still alive. The novel is a near future story of what amounts to the first space war between China and the United States. “Echoes of Apollo” not only involve the sort of cutting edge technological toys inherent in the genre, but also makes clever use of the technology of the past. The story also casts a new light on the ongoing debate as to whether or not to return to the...

The 33-year-old boyfriend of former Time magazine reporter Julie Grace was charged late Thursday with killing her during an argument this week in her North Side apartment. George Thompson, of the 16700 block of South Elm Street in South Holland, was charged with first-degree murder for allegedly punching and pushing Grace, causing her to fall and strike her head against a bedroom dresser, said Chicago police spokeswoman Alice Casanova.