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36% complete! Alex has read 11 of 30 books.

commented on After life by Simon Funk

Simon Funk: After life (EBook)

If you could upload your mind, where would you put it? A postcyberpunk Extropian sci-fi …

Huh chapter two gave me some strange, very vague but nostalgic memory of having read this before? It was a very weird feeling but quite funny, when considering the topic of memory in the first chapter.

quoted Paladin's Strength by T. Kingfisher (The Saint of Steel, #2)

T. Kingfisher: Paladin's Strength (Hardcover, 2021, Argyll Productions)

He’s a paladin of a dead god, tracking a supernatural killer across a continent. She’s …

Clara smothered a laugh. It was hard to imagine gallant Istvhan, who had faced a wedge of men on horseback with only his sword, being afraid of the sea. Then again, you’ve seen him talk his way or fight his way out of everything. He is very confident in his ability to do those things. Perhaps it would be unsettling to have a foe that responds to neither, and doesn’t even know it’s your foe.

Paladin's Strength by  (The Saint of Steel, #2)

Dennis E. Taylor: Not Till We Are Lost (Paperback, 2025, Ethan Ellenberg Literary Agency)

The best-selling series that readers label “wonderfully entertaining”, “packed with humor, geek references and thought-provoking …

Starting on day one, you have all the usual risks, like meteor strike, nearby supernova, ecological catastrophe, and so on. But once a species becomes intelligent, they start introducing more existential dangers, like climate change, all the forms of warfare, and self-destructive technologies like gray goo and AIs. And none of the older dangers go away, really. If the dangers just keep piling up as the species advances, eventually the odds catch up with you. It might be that extinction becomes statistically inevitable at some point.

Not Till We Are Lost by  (Bobiverse, #5)

Another idea about the Fermi Paradox.