The Rig by Roger Levy
On a desert planet, two boys meet, sparking a friendship that will change human society forever. On the windswept world …
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Andy rated Tomorrow's Kin: 3 stars
Tomorrow's Kin by Nancy Kress (Yesterday's Kin Trilogy, #1)
The aliens have arrived...
They've landed their Embassy ship on a platform in New York Harbor, and will only speak …
Andy rated This Is How You Lose the Time War: 2 stars
This Is How You Lose the Time War by Amal El-Mohtar, Max Gladstone
Two time-traveling agents from warring futures, working their way through the past, begin to exchange letters—and fall in love in …
Andy rated An Artist of the Floating World: 4 stars
An Artist of the Floating World by Kazuo Ishiguro
It is 1948. Japan is rebuilding her cities after the calamity of World War Two, her people putting defeat behind …
Andy rated Parable of the Talents: 4 stars
Parable of the Talents by Octavia E. Butler (Earthseed, #2)
Environmental devastation and economic chaos have turned America into a land of depravity. Taking advantage of the situation, a zealous …
Andy rated Parable of the Sower: 4 stars
Parable of the Sower by Octavia E. Butler (Earthseed, #1)
In 2025, with the world descending into madness and anarchy, one woman begins a fateful journey toward a better future. …
Andy rated Welcome to Your World: 3 stars
Welcome to Your World by Professor Sarah Williams Goldhagen
Taking us on a fascinating journey through some of the world’s best and worst landscapes, buildings, and cityscapes, Sarah Williams …
Andy rated A Crack in Creation: 4 stars
A Crack in Creation by Jennifer A. Doudna, Samuel H. Sternberg
A trailblazing biologist grapples with her role in the biggest scientific discovery of our era: a cheap, easy way of …
Andy rated Triumph of the City: 2 stars
Triumph of the City by Edward L. Glaeser
A pioneering urban economist offers fascinating, even inspiring proof that the city is humanity's greatest invention and our best hope …
Andy rated Reality Is Not What It Seems: 5 stars
Reality Is Not What It Seems by Carlo Rovelli, Simon Carnell, Erica Segre
What are the elementary ingredients of the world? Do time and space exist? And what exactly is reality? In elegant …
Cooked by Michael Pollan
Fire, water, air, earth--our most trusted food expert recounts the story of his culinary education In Cooked, Michael Pollan explores …
Andy rated The Book of Why: 2 stars
The Book of Why by Dana Mackenzie, Judea Pearl
A Turing Award-winning computer scientist and statistician shows how understanding causality has revolutionized science and will revolutionize artificial intelligence
“Correlation …
Andy rated How to Change Your Mind: 4 stars
How to Change Your Mind by Michael Pollan
How to Change Your Mind: What the New Science of Psychedelics Teaches Us About Consciousness, Dying, Addiction, Depression, and Transcendence …
Andy rated The Order of Time: 5 stars
The Order of Time by Carlo Rovelli, Simon Carnell, Erica Segre
Time tends to be considered uniform and universal, but it may be much more complicated than that. In fact, the …
Andy rated Just My Type: 3 stars
Just My Type by Simon Garfield
A quick and personal tour through the past and present of fonts, their design, and use.