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wow books, amirite? trying to replace lethargic social media usage with slothful reading

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William Gibson, Bruce Sterling: The Difference Engine (EBook, 1990, Spectra/Bantam Books)

Fictional speculation on what would have happened if the computer had been invented in the …

meta: i have to say that GOD it is so satisfying to play hobby librarian and fix the metadata of books you're going to read. i love that i don't have to add EVERYTHING, but can instead do the last bits like, fix broken covers and restore the original publication date.

very happy that bookwyrm is so enabling in this respect :>

Adrian Tchaikovsky: Children of Time (Paperback, 2016, Pan Books)

The last remnants of the human race left a dying Earth, desperate to find a …

big time in-between-books rn. i tried getting into Starhawk's The Fifth Sacred Thing but bounced really hard on the chi & pseudoscience vibe of it (which is a shame, cause the prose & other themes really resonated otherwise).

so it's time for another bookwyrm recommendation! gonna give tchaikovsky a try since i feel like i've seen that name for quite a while now :)

Fred Turner: From Counterculture to Cyberculture (2006, University of Chicago Press) No rating

In the early 1960s, computers haunted the American popular imagination. Bleak tools of the cold …

this book has already appeared a couple of times during my reading of Lurking, and it has also come up in irl convos as well

Thank The BookWyrm that I can now track it properly instead of ambiently & haphazardly try to remember it (i've got a long long list of books to read, as well, but it's mostly a dumping ground :)