A book that made me shiver and also a delight. Written when there was still Soviet Union, nowadays with AI surfacing everywhere. At the nanoscale, we still can't be sure what we are creating. When well reach the atom scale in miniaturization, perhaps we'll switch to DNA computers, and then we'll open the Pandora box without knowing it...
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Samuel reviewed Blood Music by Greg Bear
Samuel rated The Fall of Hyperion: 5 stars
The Fall of Hyperion by Dan Simmons (Hyperion Cantos, #2)
On the world called Hyperion, beyond the law of the Hegemony of Man, there waits the creature called the Shrike. …
Samuel reviewed Gunpowder by Kelly, Jack
Samuel reviewed Hyperion by Dan Simmons (Hyperion Cantos, #1)
Review of 'Hyperion' on 'Goodreads'
5 stars
Well, what I should say about this book's story, or better, six stories. Which is the best? The priest's tale, the scholar or the consul? Perhaps the first, but I'm not going to spoil it. For me, the morbid and the bizarre priest's tale, was the deeply cut me inside. And abiut the end, this only the prologue for the next book, which I'm going to read later
Samuel reviewed Fire & Blood by George R. R. Martin
Review of 'Fire & Blood' on 'Goodreads'
4 stars
This was the first time ever that I read a book by George. I became a GoT fan after the series last season. What I thought about is prose is that it have as much sex and killings as in the TV. The plots with the treasons and deceits are also remarkable. I already knew some of the story I was going to read. George gives the account of such detail in describing the names of all the involved people in the plot as the name of the house they belong to. It becames too much to swallow inventing names for all of the people. I think I'm not going to try to read another by George unless the books become shorter in length.
Samuel rated Second foundation: 4 stars
Second foundation by Isaac Asimov (Foundation, #3)
After years of struggle, the Foundation lay in ruins -- destroyed by the mutant mind power of the Mule. But …
Samuel rated Foundation and Empire: 4 stars
Foundation and Empire by Isaac Asimov (Foundation, #2)
Led by its founding father, the great psychohistorian Hari Seldon, and taking advantage of its superior science and technology, the …
Samuel rated The Bible unearthed: 5 stars
Samuel rated Sandworms of Dune: 4 stars
Samuel rated Hunters of Dune: 3 stars
Samuel rated The Darkening Age: 4 stars
The Darkening Age by Catherine Nixey
Offers a history of the rise of Christianity in the classical world that focuses on its terrible cost, in terms …
Review of 'El dispendio del Duque' on 'Goodreads'
3 stars
Entre Portugal y España, esta es una historia de amor, política y traición. Ambientado en la atmósfera de la nobleza española, un capitán al servicio del duque de Medina Sidonia se enamorará de una conspirador,a socavando su plan y el suyo. Con la intención de recomponer el ambiente de la conspiración que trató de dar independencia a la región andaluza, el autor trata de ser fiel a los hechos históricos, pero peca por no poder seguir desarrollando la trama. Faltaba más acción en la narrativa.
Samuel reviewed Prisoners of Geography by Tim Marshall
Review of 'Prisoners of Geography' on 'Goodreads'
5 stars
Li a tradução portuguesa e fiquei bem esclarecido em que medida a geomorfologia dos terrenos da superfície da Terra molda as nações. Para cada continente, um capítulo, mas sempre a mesma mensagem: fronteiras naturais como rios e cordilheiras continuam agora, como há dois mil anos, a suster o avanço no terreno de invasões. No fim, um aviso sobre as alterações climáticas e as consequências que terão no Árctico onde a Rússia parece já ter colocado as suas peças no xadrez geográfico da região preparado para qualquer eventualidade de disputar a supremacia no que irá aparecer quando o gelo desaparecer por completo! Ficou por fazer um capítulo sobre a Antárctida!
Samuel reviewed Como as democracias morrem by Steven Levitsky
Review of 'Como as democracias morrem' on 'Goodreads'
4 stars
Leitura agradável e cheio de exemplos históricos para fundamentar o raciocínio. Os autores abordam em que medida líderes políticas com tendências autoritárias podem comprometer a democracia dos seus países e aponta diferentes sinais de que esteja em rumo um perigo desse tipo. Curto e conciso. Gostei.