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The war raged across the galaxy. Billions had died, billions more were doomed. Moons, planets, …
3 stars for worldbuilding in the first half 1 star for generic and cliche characters (especially female characters)
also (south park voice) "this is what tech accelerationists actually believe"
In 1506, Michelangelo – a young but already renowned sculptor – is invited by the …
what if Michelangelo had gone to Constantinople?
In 1506, Michelangelo – a young but already renowned sculptor – is invited by the sultan of Constantinople to design …
Beneath the towering bleached ribs of a dead, ancient beast lies the city of New …
Tsukuru Tazaki had four best friends at school. By chance all of their names contained a colour. The two boys …
How do we see the world around us? The Penguin on Design series includes the …
More time has passed between the publication of Ways of Seeing and now than had between Walter Benjamin's The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction and Ways of Seeing.
Winner of the Herralde Prize and the Rómulo Gallegos Prize. Natasha Wimmer’s translation of The …
I wish I had read this before 2666 but I am happy to be reading it now.
“…and about the month of April, not so much cruel as disastrous, and that’s when I knew beyond a doubt that everything was about to go from bad to worse.”
A 999 line poem in heroic couplets, divided into 4 cantos, was composed--according to Nabokov's fiction--by John Francis Shade, an …
A conscientious objector to surveillance capitalism plans to battle the world’s largest social network/e-commerce/monitoring company, …
the first 100 pages felt like a laundry list of Dave egger’s boomery gripes about San Francisco. then it became more like a Black Mirror episode, you know, what if technology but bad. still, I kept reading. What can I say, it was entertaining.
then today I saw an ad for something that uses “ai” to manage your calendar for you and now I don’t know what to think
a concise and readable history both of how navalny came to be who he was and how he has shaped putin into what he is too. nothing super surprising but I wasn’t familiar with all of the twists and turns or his really early activism (as a shareholder of Russian state owned corporations advocating for higher dividends).
it’s a little quick to excuse his nationalist ties, though they are fairly considered overall. it would have been a better book if it had included some more perspectives from anti-establishment activists in Russia that are excluded from nationalistic visions. I should find a book about the Caucasus.
A conscientious objector to surveillance capitalism plans to battle the world’s largest social network/e-commerce/monitoring company, The Every, by joining it …
A conscientious objector to surveillance capitalism plans to battle the world’s largest social network/e-commerce/monitoring company, …
this is not a good book
Centuries in the future, Terrans have established a logging colony & military base named “New Tahiti” on a tree-covered planet …
Not since Sherman Alexie's The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven and Louise Erdrich's Love Medicine has such a …
