Taking my next step into the Fediverse from Mastodon. I've written some weird little SF stories and poems, but I don't read much fiction any more. Now I'm mostly interested in science and history, especially non-human intelligence.
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This is the definitive, textually accurate edition of a classic of twentieth-century literature, The Great …
Beautiful prose, but I have the nagging feeling that I'm not catching on to what's really going on.
Murderbot returns in its highly-anticipated, first, full-length standalone novel.
You know that feeling when you’re …
Libby came through while I was still plowing through Power Broker. Read a couple chapters just to get it started on my Kobo.
One of the most acclaimed books of our time, winner of both the Pulitzer and …
picking up in hard copy after ebook loan ran out in March
Fifteen writers, all addressing not just our fascination with cat videos, but also how we …
available on Hoopla
This is the definitive, textually accurate edition of a classic of twentieth-century literature, The Great …
I've come to the conclusion that reading it in high school was way too early for me to get it.
Sci-fi’s favorite antisocial A.I. is back on a mission. The case against the too-big-to-fail GrayCris …
Stayed up late reading, but managed to save the ending for the next day.
On Explore the World of Science list sent by Richard
A botanist’s defense. Since his early days of plant restoration, this amateur plant scientist has …
On Explore the World of Science list sent by Richard
Artificial Condition is the follow-up to Martha Wells’s Hugo, Nebula, Alex, and Locus Award-winning, New …
Actually a re-read. Looking forward to meeting ART again.
When, in 1922, thirty-year-old Count Alexander Rostov is deemed an unrepentant aristocrat by a Bolshevik …
Stayed up to 1am to finish it.
Interview on BBC History Extra: www.historyextra.com/period/hotel-lux-podcast-maurice-j-casey/
Seems like a good counterpoint to A Gentleman in Moscow
The photos are captured with an unusual technique, but they don't show the UV marks on flowers. You don't see any of the rays and rings known to help bees find the pollen. The text carefully explains that they capture the fluorescence in visible light caused by ultraviolet light. What this mainly shows is that pollen fluoresces. What really bugged me is that none of the photos are captioned! You have to turn to a list in the back notes to find out what they are. Once the text has explained what the photos are, it delves into how insects see. Then it gives an overview about honeybees. Having reached roughly the halfway point, it seems to run out of things to say about bees and spends most of the remainder talking about manuka honey. So much is written and repeated about manuka, you begin to wonder if the book …
The photos are captured with an unusual technique, but they don't show the UV marks on flowers. You don't see any of the rays and rings known to help bees find the pollen. The text carefully explains that they capture the fluorescence in visible light caused by ultraviolet light. What this mainly shows is that pollen fluoresces. What really bugged me is that none of the photos are captioned! You have to turn to a list in the back notes to find out what they are. Once the text has explained what the photos are, it delves into how insects see. Then it gives an overview about honeybees. Having reached roughly the halfway point, it seems to run out of things to say about bees and spends most of the remainder talking about manuka honey. So much is written and repeated about manuka, you begin to wonder if the book was subsidized by the Manuka Board.
Great photos, though.
"As a heartless killing machine, I was a complete failure."
In a corporate-dominated spacefaring future, …
Revving up to read the whole series.
