A health services researcher and educator from Sydney, Australia. I like imaginative fiction and a smattering of non-fiction, and I have a genuinely shameful number of unread books in my to-read pile. I'm also on Mastodon.
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Translated by Yisroel Markov
I've only just started this but the premise alone is great. From Wikipedia:
"a critique of totalitarianism, or of Tolkien's anti-modern racial and environmental vision coupled with the destruction of technology, which itself could be called totalitarian."
The Mimicking of Known Successes presents a cozy Holmesian murder mystery and sapphic romance, set …
McKinsey & Company is the most prestigious consulting company in the world, earning billions of …
Too depressing to finish, frankly!
From science fiction visionary Annalee Newitz comes The Terraformers, a sweeping, uplifting, and illuminating exploration …
I've been looking forward to this!
Re-reading this for the first time since 1989. Fifty pages in and it's blowing my hair back. Arkady and Boris Strugatsky had amazing writing chops.
Many think of the internet as an unprecedented and overwhelmingly positive achievement of modern human technology. But is it? In …
Many think of the internet as an unprecedented and overwhelmingly positive achievement of modern human technology. But is it? In …
The Candy House opens with the staggeringly brilliant Bix Bouton, whose company, Mandala, is so successful that he is “one …
McKinsey & Company is the most prestigious consulting company in the world, earning billions of …
Liam brought this one to my attention, so I had to tackle it straight away.
It’s been centuries since the robots of Panga gained self-awareness and laid down their tools; …
What a delightful book. I'm enjoying this more than anything I've read this year I think. Splendid Speckled Mosscap Is such a great character, and the slow paced, almost meditative quality of the text is a balm for the reader. I hope it ends as it's begun.
In Manhattan, a young grad student gets off the train and realizes he doesn't remember …
