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avengero rated The Lathe Of Heaven: 4 stars
The Lathe Of Heaven by Ursula K. Le Guin
“The Lathe of Heaven” ; 1971 ( Ursula Le Guin received the 1973 Locus Award for this story) George Orr …
avengero rated The Dark Forest: 4 stars
The Dark Forest by Cixin Liu, Ken Liu, Joel Martinsen
Sequel to The Three-Body Problem.
avengero rated Death's End: 4 stars
Death's End by Cixin Liu (Remembrance of Earth’s Past, #03)
Death's End (Chinese: 死神永生, pinyin: Sǐshén yǒngshēng) is a science fiction novel by the Chinese writer Liu Cixin. It is …
avengero rated Three-Body Problem Series: 4 stars
Three-Body Problem Series by Joel Martinsen, Cixin Liu, Ken Liu
This trilogy follows a broad cast of characters through the centuries as earth enters a crisis following the Chinese cultural …
avengero rated Kitchen confidential: 4 stars
Kitchen confidential by Anthony Bourdain
Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly is a New York Times bestselling nonfiction book written by American chef Anthony …
avengero rated Nonzero: The Logic of Human Destiny: 4 stars
Nonzero: The Logic of Human Destiny by Robert Wright
Nonzero: The Logic of Human Destiny is a 1999 book by Robert Wright, in which the author argues that biological …
avengero rated We by Yevgeny Zamyatin: 4 stars
Must Read Must Read Classics, Gregory Gregory Zilboorg, Yevgeny Yevgeny Zamyatin, Yevgeny Zamyatin: We by Yevgeny Zamyatin (2020, Independently Published)
We by Yevgeny Zamyatin by Must Read Must Read Classics, Gregory Gregory Zilboorg, Yevgeny Yevgeny Zamyatin, and 1 other
I highly recommend We as an alternative to 1984 or Brave New World for any reader new to dystopian fiction
avengero rated Making contact: 4 stars
avengero rated Speaker for the Dead (Ender Quartet): 4 stars
Speaker for the Dead (Ender Quartet) by Orson Scott Card
Ender Wiggin, the young military genius, discovers that a second alien war is inevitable and that he must dismiss his …
Gratitude by Oliver Sacks
"In July 2013, Oliver Sacks turned eighty and wrote [a] ... piece in The New York Times about the prospect …
avengero rated The Martian: 4 stars
The Martian by Andy Weir (The Martian, #1)
A mission to Mars.
A freak accident.
One man's struggle to survive.
Six days ago, astronaut Mark Watney became one …
avengero rated Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea: 3 stars
Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea by Charles Seife
The Babylonians invented it, the Greeks banned it, the Hindus worshiped it, and the Church used it to fend off …
The Beginning of Infinity: Explanations That Transform the World by David Deutsch
The Beginning of Infinity: Explanations that Transform the World is a popular science book by the physicist David Deutsch first …