darkejokero rated Gateway: 3 stars
Gateway by Frederik Pohl (Heechee Saga, #1)
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Gateway is a 1977 science-fiction novel by American writer Frederik Pohl. It is the opening …
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Technological Slavery: The Collected Writings of Theodore J. Kaczynski, a.k.a. "The Unabomber" by Theodore Kaczynski
“Like many of my colleagues, I felt that I could easily have been the Unabomber's next target. He is clearly …
darkejokero rated Erewhon: 5 stars
darkejokero rated Future War: 3 stars
Future War by Christopher Coker
Will tomorrow's wars be dominated by autonomous drones, land robots and warriors wired into a cybernetic network which can read …
darkejokero rated The Difference Engine: 4 stars
The Difference Engine by William Gibson, Bruce Sterling
The Difference Engine (1990) is an alternative history novel by William Gibson and Bruce Sterling. It is widely regarded as …
darkejokero rated Dialogues: 4 stars
Dialogues by Stanisław Lem, Peter Butko
In 1957, Stanisław Lem published Dialogues, a book “conceived under the spell of cybernetics,” as he wrote in the preface …
darkejokero rated Imaginary Magnitude: 5 stars
Imaginary Magnitude by Stanisław Lem
These wickedly authentic introductions to twenty-first-century books preface tomes on teaching English to bacteria, using animated X-rays to create "pornograms," …
darkejokero rated Great Adaptations: 4 stars
darkejokero rated Lives of Fungi: 4 stars
Lives of Fungi by Britt Bunyard (The Lives of the Natural World, #2)
A fascinating and richly illustrated exploration of the natural history of fungi
We know fungi are important, for us as …
darkejokero rated Viruses: 3 stars
Viruses by Marilyn J. Roossinck (The Lives of the Natural World, #5)
A comprehensive and richly illustrated introduction to the world of viruses
As parasites that are often hundreds of times smaller …
darkejokero rated Viruses as Complex Adaptive Systems: 4 stars
Viruses as Complex Adaptive Systems by Ricard Solé, Santiago F. Elena (Primers in Complex Systems, #15)
How complex systems theory sheds new light on the adaptive dynamics of viral populations
Viruses are everywhere, infecting all sorts …
darkejokero 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 …
darkejokero rated New York 2140: 4 stars
New York 2140 by Kim Stanley Robinson
New York 2140 is a 2017 climate fiction novel by American science fiction author Kim Stanley Robinson. The novel is …
darkejokero rated The Internet Is Not What You Think It Is: 3 stars
The Internet Is Not What You Think It Is by Justin E. H. Smith
Many think of the internet as an unprecedented and overwhelmingly positive achievement of modern human technology. But is it? In …