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Maxim

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Software PM, bridge teacher, board game geek. Interested in stock markets and rational thinking.

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Margaret Atwood: Handmaid's Tale (Paperback, 1998, Anchor Books)
Julie Dirksen: Design for how people learn (2011, New Riders)

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Michael Flynn: Eifelheim (2006)
Tom Chatfield: Critical Thinking (2017, SAGE Publications, Limited)
Michael Chabon: The Yiddish Policemen's Union (Hardcover, 2007, HarperCollins)

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Vernor Vinge: A Fire Upon The Deep (Paperback, 1993, Tor Science Fiction)
Orson Scott Card: Ender's Game (Paperback, 1994, TOR Books)
Peter F. Hamilton: Fallen Dragon (2009, Orbit)

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62% complete! Maxim has read 18 of 29 books.

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reviewed Eifelheim by Michael Flynn

Michael Flynn: Eifelheim (2006)

In 1349, one small town in Germany disappeared and has never been resettled. Tom, a …

Captivating and very meticulous

This sci-fi is as hard as nails. You can't call the plot unusual — an alien ship crashes on Earth — but you'll learn more about medieval Germany and theoretical physics than you'd do in an average college class. Exceptionally detailed, true to facts, and very well written.

reviewed Reamde by Neal Stephenson

Neal Stephenson: Reamde (2011, William Morrow)

Reamde is a speculative fiction novel by Neal Stephenson, published in 2011. The story, set …

Unexpected

Expectations: a thoughtful, magnificent mind-blowing world similar to those in "Snowcrash", "The Diamond age", "Cryptonomicon", or "Anathem".

Reality: a scenario for a Guy Ritchie criminal action movie. Russian mafia, Chinese hackers, and a manhunting puma assaulting islamic terrorists.

Reamde is still a fine piece of prose, just don't expect Platonic philosophy in this one.