Excession by Iain M. Banks (Culture, #5)
Two and a half millennia ago, the artifact appeared in a remote corner of space, beside a trillion-year-old dying sun …
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Ricardo 🐈 rated Badass: Making Users Awesome: 4 stars
Badass: Making Users Awesome by Kathy Sierra
Imagine you’re in a game with one objective: a bestselling product or service. The rules? No marketing budget, no PR …
Ricardo 🐈 rated Use of Weapons: 4 stars
Use of Weapons by Iain M. Banks (Culture, #3)
Use of Weapons is a science fiction novel by Scottish writer Iain M. Banks, first published in 1990. It is …
Ricardo 🐈 rated Superintelligence: 4 stars
Superintelligence by Nick Bostrom
The human brain has some capabilities that the brains of other animals lack. It is to these distinctive capabilities that …
Ricardo 🐈 rated The Player of Games: 4 stars
The Player of Games by Iain M. Banks, Iain Banks (Culture, part 2)
The Culture - a human/machine symbiotic society - has thrown up many great Game Players, and one of the greatest …
What If? by Randall Munroe
Millions of people visit xkcd.com each week to read Randall Munroe's iconic webcomic. His stick-figure drawings about science, technology, language, …
Ricardo 🐈 rated Ancillary Sword: 4 stars
Ancillary Sword by Ann Leckie (Imperial Radch, #2)
Seeking atonement for past crimes, Breq takes on a mission as captain of a troublesome new crew of Radchai soldiers, …
Ricardo 🐈 rated Ancillary Justice: 4 stars
Ancillary Justice by Ann Leckie (Imperial Radch, #1)
On a remote, icy planet, the soldier known as Breq is drawing closer to completing her quest.
Breq is …
Ricardo 🐈 rated Echopraxia: 4 stars
Echopraxia by Peter Watts (Firefall, #2)
A follow-up to the Hugo Award-nominated Blindsight, Echopraxia is set in a 22nd-century world transformed by scientific evangelicals, supernatural beings …
Ricardo 🐈 rated Meditations: 5 stars
Meditations by Marc Aurèle
was born on April 26, A.D. 121. His real name was M. Annius Verus, and he was sprung of a …
Ricardo 🐈 rated Thinking, fast and slow: 5 stars
Thinking, fast and slow by Daniel Kahneman
Kahneman introduces two modes of thought - system 1, fast and intuitive, and system 2, slow and reasoned - and …
