Book interests very varied. Psychology, sociology, politics, social systems, history, biology, physics, philosophy.
Fiction: science fiction, literary, historical, much more.
Bio: Natural philosopher (STEM background), retired IT Architect. Supporting public policy based on kindness, respect and evidence. Cis, het: he. Settler on the traditional territories the Mississauga branch of the Ojibwa Nation.
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A replica of Britain is created on the Isle of Wight, complete with Robin Hood, Princess Di and replays of …
You might think it's an impossible task: secure a safe future for life on Earth, at a scale and speed …
You might think it's an impossible task: secure a safe future for life on Earth, …
Essays be experts in many different aspects of climate change and what we can do about it.
I read it fairly quickly but expect to return to it as a reference.
"The dramatic story of the brain's role in creating our world, our experience of it, …
The first few chapters were very basic, nothing new for me. 4&5 were better.
Last was speculative and very pro-technology without considering risks via the motivation of corporations providing the tech. Already , one of them has gone bankrupt, leaving blind people with brain implants that no longer work.
From science fiction visionary Annalee Newitz comes The Terraformers, a sweeping, uplifting, and illuminating exploration of the future.
Destry's life …
We are not alone.
On Ganymede, breadbasket of the outer planets, a Martian marine watches …
Fast paced space opera, with a social and political background.
Humanity has colonized the solar system—Mars, the Moon, the Asteroid Belt and beyond—but the stars …
Fast paced space opera, with a social and political background.
When I first read this, climate change wasn't much in the media.
Now the book appears to be even more relevant – and scary.
A world that hangs suspended between triumph and catastrophe, between the dismantling of the Wall …
A bizarre novel with a many-worlds background. An organization claims to be sending its agents to temporarily take over bodies in different versions of our world, to fix things by simple means like delaying a good person on the way to catch a plane that will crash, to assassinating bad people.
But some agents become doubtful as to whether the organization itself is becoming corrupt.
Different from his Culture novels in most ways but still using an alternate reality (or many alternate realities) to explore some social and philosophical issues.
It is 4034 AD. Humanity has made it to the stars. Fassin Taak, a Slow …
Another galactic scale SciFi from a master of the genre. Not, this time, in the Culture universe, but one with gas-giant inhabitants who live a billion years along with humans and other fast, short-lived creatures. This involves several of each as characters.
The usual complex story of politics, culture and adventure.
How much do we know about why we buy? What truly influences our decisions in …
Since the author sells advertising, it's not surprising that the book sells a new scientific advertising methid through neuroimaging.
Or that he says that knowing about it will help us resist it, even while he claims that it acts on a subliminal level that we aren't aware of.
Other reading suggests there's some truth in here and its just another harms race.
It's am anthology so the categories don't really apply to the book as a whole.
Some stories are good but a lot get tedious as they spend a lot of time on physics, sometimes accurate, often fabricated, while not as much on plot or characters.
The book can't decide if it's science or science fiction, to the detriment of both.
Disappointed.
Outdated language is irritating, especially the use of "men" for "people" when they're actively doing something, betrayed by use of "men and women" when they're having things done to them.
But full of insight.
