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I work on security, borders, and migration at the Washington Office on Latin America. My reading and my day job don't necessarily overlap.
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Adam Isacson rated Snow Crash: 4 stars

Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson, Neal Stephenson, Juanma Barranquero, and 1 other
30 años del Metaverso, y sumando. En un futuro cercano, los americanos solo destacan haciendo cuatro cosas: música, películas, programas… …
Adam Isacson rated How High We Go in the Dark: 3 stars

How High We Go in the Dark by Sequoia Nagamatsu
Beginning in 2030, a grieving archeologist arrives in the Arctic Circle to continue the work of his recently deceased daughter …
Adam Isacson rated There Is No Antimemetics Division: 4 stars

There Is No Antimemetics Division by qntm
An antimeme is an idea with self-censoring properties ; an idea which, by its intrinsic nature, discourages or prevents people …
Adam Isacson rated Upgrade: 3 stars

Upgrade by Blake Crouch
An ordinary man undergoes a startling transformation-and fears that all of humanity may be next-in the mindblowing new thriller from …
Adam Isacson rated Blue Mars (Mars Trilogy): 4 stars

Blue Mars (Mars Trilogy) by Kim Stanley Robinson, Kim Stanley Robinson (Mars Trilogy, Part 3)
Adam Isacson rated Spear: 3 stars

Spear by Nicola Griffith
The girl knows she has a destiny before she even knows her name. She grows up in the wild, in …
Adam Isacson rated Chilean Poet: 3 stars
Adam Isacson rated Green Mars (Mars Trilogy, #2): 4 stars
Adam Isacson rated Termination Shock: 3 stars

Termination Shock by Neal Stephenson
Termination Shock takes readers on a thrilling, chilling visit to our not-too-distant future – a world in which the greenhouse …
Adam Isacson rated Four Thousand Weeks: 4 stars

Oliver Burkeman: Four Thousand Weeks (2021, Farrar, Straus & Giroux)
Four Thousand Weeks by Oliver Burkeman
The average human lifespan is absurdly, outrageously, insultingly brief: if you live to 80, you have about four thousand weeks …
Adam Isacson rated Cloud Cuckoo Land: 5 stars
Adam Isacson rated Sentence: 4 stars

Louise Erdrich: Sentence (2021, HarperCollins Publishers)
Sentence by Louise Erdrich
Large print edition
Adam Isacson rated When We Cease to Understand the World: 4 stars

When We Cease to Understand the World by Benjamín Labatut, Adrian Nathan West
A fictional examination of the lives of real-life scientists and thinkers whose discoveries resulted in moral consequences beyond their imagining. …