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Curious microbiologist outside of academia working to make it possible to launch biotechnology projects from unlikely spaces (hopefully community driven!). Reading sci-fi since I was little (probably started with Monica Hughes) and I try to mix it up with some non-fiction too.
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danwchan finished reading The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas by Ursula K. Le Guin

The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas by Ursula K. Le Guin
Some inhabitants of a peaceful kingdom cannot tolerate the act of cruelty that underlies its happiness.
danwchan finished reading The Three-Body Problem by Cixin Liu (Three-Body Trilogy, #1)

The Three-Body Problem by Cixin Liu (Three-Body Trilogy, #1)
Within the context of the Chinese Cultural Revolution, a military project sends messages to alien worlds. A nearby alien society …
danwchan finished reading Seeing Like a State by James C. Scott (Yale Agrarian Studies)

Seeing Like a State by James C. Scott (Yale Agrarian Studies)
Examines how (sometimes quasi-) authoritarian high-modernist planning fails to deliver the goods, be they increased resources for the state or …
danwchan finished reading Roadside Picnic by Boris Strugatsky (SF Collector's Edition)

Roadside Picnic by Arkady Strugatsky, Boris Strugatsky (SF Collector's Edition)
Red Schuhart is a stalker, one of those young rebels who are compelled, in spite of extreme danger, to venture …
danwchan finished reading Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall Kimmerer

Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall Kimmerer
As a botanist, Robin Wall Kimmerer has been trained to ask questions of nature with the tools of science. As …
danwchan finished reading How Long 'Til Black Future Month? by N. K. Jemisin

How Long 'Til Black Future Month? by N. K. Jemisin
How Long 'til Black Future Month? is a collection of science fiction and fantasy short stories by American novelist N. …

Everything for Everyone: An Oral History of the New York Commune, 2052–2072 by M. E. O'brien, Eman Abdelhadi
By the middle of the twenty-first century, war, famine, economic collapse, and climate catastrophe had toppled the world's governments. In …
danwchan wants to read Darkome by Hannu Rajaniemi (Darkome, #1)

Darkome by Hannu Rajaniemi (Darkome, #1)
During the Decade of Plagues, pandemics brought civilization to a standstill. The only way out was the Aspis chip: a …
danwchan finished reading Occult Features of Anarchism by Erica Lagalisse (Kairos)

Occult Features of Anarchism by Erica Lagalisse (Kairos)
In the nineteenth century anarchists were accused of conspiracy by governments afraid of revolution, but in the current century various …
danwchan finished reading Walkaway by Cory Doctorow

Walkaway by Cory Doctorow
Hubert Vernon Rudolph Clayton Irving Wilson Alva Anton Jeff Harley Timothy Curtis Cleveland Cecil Ollie Edmund Eli Wiley Marvin Ellis …
danwchan started reading The sheep look up. by John Brunner
danwchan finished reading The People's Republic of Walmart by Leigh Phillips

The People's Republic of Walmart by Leigh Phillips
For the left and the right, major multinational companies are held up as the ultimate expressions of free-market capitalism. Their …
danwchan finished reading Lurking: How a Person Became a User by Joanne McNeil

Lurking: How a Person Became a User by Joanne McNeil
A concise but wide-ranging personal history of the internet from—for the first time—the point of view of the user
In …
danwchan finished reading The Edible Woman by Margaret Atwood

The Edible Woman by Margaret Atwood
The Edible Woman is a 1969 novel that helped to establish Margaret Atwood as a prose writer of major significance. …