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
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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 (duplicate)
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 (duplicate)
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
trochee@bookwyrm.social wants to read Alien Clay by Adrian Tchaikovsky
On the distant world of Kiln lie the ruins of an alien civilization. It’s the …
Recommended by @Ashedryden@xoxo.zone
trochee@bookwyrm.social wants to read The Memory Police by Yoko Ogawa
A haunting Orwellian novel about the terrors of state surveillance, from the acclaimed author of …
Recommended by @ben@werd.social!
A lot of Engineering Managers and leaders studied for years and years to become the …
I think I may have to get a hard copy of this one
trochee@bookwyrm.social finished reading How Far the Light Reaches by Sabrina Imbler
A queer, mixed race writer working in a largely white, male field, science and conservation …
What a phenomenal book. I feel like I learned things about queerness and things about amazing sea biology at the same time.
So much science — and science writing — is missing this kind of soul
I've been noodling my way through this book and I think that I could use the attitudes expressed here to describe what I think I do well as a technical leader at work — I want to build places where adults get to play and collaborate like kindergartners — in the best way.
So much dedication to the ideas and ideals of play and messing around as a path to creativity, not "productivity"