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pruwyben rated The Color of Magic: 5 stars
The Color of Magic by Terry Pratchett, Terry Pratchett (Discworld, #1)
Terry Pratchett's profoundly irreverent novels are consistent number one bestsellers in England, where they have garnered him a revered position …
pruwyben rated Emergent Tokyo: 5 stars
Emergent Tokyo by Jorge Almazán, Studiolab
This book examines the urban fabric of contemporary Tokyo as a valuable demonstration of permeable, inclusive, and adaptive urban patterns …
pruwyben rated The Death and Life of Great American Cities: 5 stars
The Death and Life of Great American Cities by Jane Jacobs
Published to coincide with the 50th anniversary of its initial publication, this special edition of Jane Jacobs’s masterpiece, The Death …
pruwyben rated The Diamond Age: 5 stars
The Diamond Age by Neal Stephenson (A Bantam spectra book)
The story of an engineer who creates a device to raise a girl capable of thinking for herself reveals what …
pruwyben rated The Peripheral: 5 stars
The Peripheral by William Gibson (The Jackpot Trilogy, #1)
pruwyben rated Pattern Recognition: 5 stars
Pattern Recognition by William Gibson, William Gibson (unspecified)
Cayce Pollard, a design consultant, is on the trail of the creator of Internet videos that have attained a worldwide …
pruwyben rated A Fire Upon The Deep: 5 stars
A Fire Upon The Deep by Vernor Vinge (Zones of Thought, #1)
Thousands of years in the future, humanity is no longer alone in a universe where a mind's potential is determined …
pruwyben rated A Closed and Common Orbit: 5 stars
A Closed and Common Orbit by Becky Chambers (Wayfarers, #2)
Once, Lovelace had eyes and ears everywhere. She was a ship's artificial intelligence system - possessing a personality and very …
pruwyben rated Neuromancer: 5 stars
Neuromancer by William Gibson (Sprawl Trilogy, #1)
The Matrix is a world within the world, a global consensus- hallucination, the representation of every byte of data in …
Anathem by Neal Stephenson
Anathem, the latest invention by the New York Times bestselling author of Cryptonomicon and The Baroque Cycle, is a magnificent …