karplus reads (night mode / 5 a.m.) rated Excession: 3 stars
Excession by Iain M. Banks (Culture, #5)
Two and a half millennia ago, the artifact appeared in a remote corner of space, beside a trillion-year-old dying sun …
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karplus reads (night mode / 5 a.m.) rated Immediacy: 4 stars
karplus reads (night mode / 5 a.m.) rated Eye of the Master: 4 stars
Eye of the Master by Matteo Pasquinelli
A “social” history of AI that finally reveals its roots in the spatial computation of industrial factories and the surveillance …
karplus reads (night mode / 5 a.m.) rated Death Takes Me: 2 stars
Death Takes Me by Cristina Rivera Garza
From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Liliana's Invincible Summer, a dreamlike, genre-defying novel about a professor and detective seeking justice …
karplus reads (night mode / 5 a.m.) rated Some Desperate Glory: 2 stars
Some Desperate Glory by Emily Tesh
All her life Kyr has trained for the day she can avenge the murder of planet Earth. Raised in the …
karplus reads (night mode / 5 a.m.) rated Second Place: 4 stars
karplus reads (night mode / 5 a.m.) rated The Dispossessed: 4 stars
The Dispossessed by Ursula K. Le Guin
Shevek, a brilliant physicist, decides to take action. He will seek answers, question the unquestionable, and attempt to tear down …
The Uninhabitable Earth: Life After Warming by David Wallace-Wells
The Uninhabitable Earth: Life After Warming is a 2019 book by David Wallace-Wells about the consequences of global warming. It …
karplus reads (night mode / 5 a.m.) rated The MANIAC: 3 stars
The MANIAC by Benjamín Labatut
A prodigy whose gifts terrified the people around him, John von Neumann transformed every field he touched, inventing game theory …
karplus reads (night mode / 5 a.m.) rated The mark and the void: 4 stars
The mark and the void by Paul Murray
This is a comic masterpiece about love, art, greed and the banking crisis, from the author of Skippy Dies. Workaholic …
karplus reads (night mode / 5 a.m.) rated Why Fish Don't Exist: 4 stars
Why Fish Don't Exist by Lulu Miller
David Starr Jordan was a taxonomist, a man possessed with bringing order to the natural world. In time, he would …
karplus reads (night mode / 5 a.m.) rated Project Hail Mary: 2 stars
Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir
Ryland Grace is the sole survivor on a desperate, last-chance mission--and if he fails, humanity and the earth itself will …
karplus reads (night mode / 5 a.m.) rated The Bee Sting: 4 stars
The Bee Sting by Paul Murray
From the Award-Winning Author of Skippy Dies
karplus reads (night mode / 5 a.m.) rated Longing for Lo-Fi: 4 stars
karplus reads (night mode / 5 a.m.) rated River of Smoke: 4 stars
