trochee@bookwyrm.social wants to read Summa Technologiae by Stanislaw Lem
Oh I never knew he'd written this entire masterpiece and it's available in English now!
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Non fiction about magical thinking
Looking forward to this
trochee@bookwyrm.social finished reading The Deep Sky by Yume Kitasei
Yume Kitasei's The Deep Sky is an enthralling sci fi thriller debut about a mission …
Definitely a debut novel; feels sort of like a handbasket full of plots, mostly strung together
Feels like the missing volume in the middle of SEVENEVES, though, in a lot of ways that Stephenson could learn from (but won't)
trochee@bookwyrm.social started reading The Deep Sky by Yume Kitasei
Yume Kitasei's The Deep Sky is an enthralling sci fi thriller debut about a mission …
I still believe that libraries are a flowering of a free republic. Thank you White Center KCLS
trochee@bookwyrm.social finished reading Paladin's Hope by T. Kingfisher
Piper is a lich-doctor, a physician who works among the dead, determining causes of death …
Another sweet romance book about broken paladins — this one gay. Full of darkly funny T. Kingfisher gnole humor that is very much reminiscent of DIGGER.
Like the other (straight) romances in this series, hot and sweet.
trochee@bookwyrm.social wants to read Level 7 by Mordecai Roshwald
A chillingly calm first person account of Armageddon, from the point of view of a …
Recommended by Amy H Sturgis on Starship Sofa
trochee@bookwyrm.social wants to read The Spaceship Next Door by Gene Doucette
Three years after a spaceship landed in Sorrow Falls, Massachusetts, a government operative comes to …
Heard a short story on LIGHTSPEED by this author
"Rrthing it up: an oral history" feels like an anti-colonial Hitchhikers Guide, from the point of view of the Vogons
trochee@bookwyrm.social wants to read AI Mirror by Shannon Vallor
Seen on somebody's LinkedIn, I'm somewhat embarrassed to say
trochee@bookwyrm.social finished reading Orbital by Samantha Harvey
A singular new novel from Betty Trask Prize–winner Samantha Harvey, Orbital is an eloquent meditation …
This is not a novel.
It's much closer to a series of essays about personal, global, and transcendental experience, framed around six people in the ISS.
Much more like a Sagan essay suite or How Far The Light Reaches.
trochee@bookwyrm.social wants to read Paladin's Hope by T. Kingfisher
Piper is a lich-doctor, a physician who works among the dead, determining causes of death …
Oh, I enjoyed the first two of these; I should read this
trochee@bookwyrm.social wants to read The AI Con by Emily M. Bender
A smart, incisive take-down of the bogus claims being made about so-called ‘artificial intelligence’, exposing …
I got a copy, signed by the authors.
trochee@bookwyrm.social started reading Orbital by Samantha Harvey
A singular new novel from Betty Trask Prize–winner Samantha Harvey, Orbital is an eloquent meditation …
Reminds me of a book I read in the nineties called Einstein's Dreams, weirdly
Science as opportunity to experience poetry
trochee@bookwyrm.social wants to read Burning Girls and Other Stories by Veronica Schanoes
trochee@bookwyrm.social wants to read Unfamiliar by Haley Newsome
Recommended by @Ashedryden@xoxo.zone
trochee@bookwyrm.social wants to read We Are Legion (We Are Bob) by Dennis E. Taylor
“Bob Johansson has just sold his software company and is looking forward to a life …
Recommended by @Ashedryden@xoxo.zone