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bracegirdle rated The Coddling of the American Mind: 4 stars
The Coddling of the American Mind by Greg Lukianoff, Jonathan Haidt
"Something is going wrong on many college campuses in the last few years. Rates of anxiety, depression, and suicide are …
bracegirdle rated Three-Ring Psychus: 3 stars
bracegirdle rated Starship Troopers: 4 stars
Starship Troopers by Robert A. Heinlein, Patrick Imbert, Éric Picholle, and 1 other
bracegirdle rated The Long Tomorrow: 4 stars
The Long Tomorrow by Leigh Brackett
"No city, no town, no community of more than one thousand people or two hundred buildings to the square mile, …
bracegirdle rated 克拉拉与太阳: 3 stars
克拉拉与太阳 by Kazuo Ishiguro, 宋佥
克拉拉是一个专为陪伴儿童而设计的太阳能人工智能机器人(AF),具有极高的观察、推理与共情能力。她坐在商店展示橱窗里,注视着街头路人以及前来浏览橱窗的孩子们的一举一动。她始终期待着很快就会有人挑中她,不过,当这种永久改变境遇的可能性出现时,克拉拉却被提醒不要过分相信人类的诺言。
在《克拉拉与太阳》这部作品中,石黑一雄通过一位令人难忘的叙述者的视角,观察千变万化的现代社会,探索了一个根本性的问题:究竟什么是爱?
bracegirdle rated Might is Right: 1 star
Might is Right by Arthur Desmond
Might Is Right or The Survival of the Fittest is a book by pseudonymous author Ragnar Redbeard, generally believed to …
bracegirdle rated The Gods Themselves: 4 stars
The Gods Themselves by Isaac Asimov
In the twenty-second century Earth obtains limitless, free energy from a source science little understands: an exchange between Earth and …
bracegirdle rated We: 5 stars
We by Yevgeny Zamyatin (Twentieth-Century Classics)
We (Russian: Мы, romanized: My) is a dystopian novel by Russian writer Yevgeny Zamyatin, written 1920–1921. It was first published …
bracegirdle rated The Library at Mount Char: 4 stars
The Library at Mount Char by Scott Hawkins
After she and a dozen other children found them being raised by "Father," a cruel man with mysterious powers, Carolyn …
bracegirdle rated Death's End: 5 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 …
bracegirdle rated The Dark Forest: 4 stars
The Dark Forest by Cixin Liu (Remembrance of Earth’s Past, #2)
The Dark Forest (Chinese: 黑暗森林, pinyin: Hēi'àn sēnlín) is a 2008 science fiction novel by the Chinese writer Liu Cixin. …
bracegirdle rated The Dark Forest: 4 stars
The Dark Forest by Cixin Liu
The Dark Forest (Chinese: 黑暗森林, pinyin: Hēi'àn sēnlín) is a 2008 science fiction novel by the Chinese writer Liu Cixin. …