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saxnot

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Joined 4 years, 5 months ago

Science Fiction / Philosophy / True Crime

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finished reading Roadside Picnic by Борис Стругацкий (Penguin Science Fiction)

Борис Стругацкий, Борис Натанович Стругацкий: Roadside Picnic (Paperback, 1979, Penguin Books)

A troubled man leads a writer and a scientist into "The Zone", a mysterious area …

Great theme. In my opinion the pacing is too slow. Good writing style. The theme did not age in the slightest.

Dennis E. Taylor: For We Are Many (2017, Worldbuilders Press)

Bob Johansson didn’t believe in an afterlife, so waking up after being killed in a …

Really loved all 3 books and it kept me away from sleep because I had to read

It's really good. The series is about the sentience "Bob" which is uploaded into a self-replicating spacecraft and then travels the galaxys, helps the humans, ... etc. I won't go into spoilers here. The topic of "artifical" versus "natural" intelligence plays a major role in the books and "Bob" is confronted with many situations in which he feels very human and/or very computer and/or struggles with the line between the two.

The pacing is very well done. The book overall is well-crafted and VERY WELL RESEARCHED. Yes it's still fiction but I'd say 98%+ of the book is based on real & possible physics.

Dennis E. Taylor, Ray Porter: All These Worlds (AudiobookFormat, 2017, Audible Studios on Brilliance, Audible Studios on Brilliance Audio)

"Being a sentient spaceship really should be more fun. But after spreading out through space …

Really loved all 3 books and it kept me away from sleep because I had to read

It's really good. The series is about the sentience "Bob" which is uploaded into a self-replicating spacecraft and then travels the galaxys, helps the humans, ... etc. I won't go into spoilers here. The topic of "artifical" versus "natural" intelligence plays a major role in the books and "Bob" is confronted with many situations in which he feels very human and/or very computer and/or struggles with the line between the two.

The pacing is very well done. The book overall is well-crafted and VERY WELL RESEARCHED. Yes it's still fiction but I'd say 98%+ of the book is based on real & possible physics.

Dennis E. Taylor: For We Are Many (2017, Worldbuilders Press)

Bob Johansson didn’t believe in an afterlife, so waking up after being killed in a …

Really loved all 3 books and it kept me away from sleep because I had to read

It's really good. The series is about the sentience "Bob" which is uploaded into a self-replicating spacecraft and then travels the galaxys, helps the humans, ... etc. I won't go into spoilers here. The topic of "artifical" versus "natural" intelligence plays a major role in the books and "Bob" is confronted with many situations in which he feels very human and/or very computer and/or struggles with the line between the two.

The pacing is very well done. The book overall is well-crafted and VERY WELL RESEARCHED. Yes it's still fiction but I'd say 98%+ of the book is based on real & possible physics.

Charles Duhigg: Smarter faster better (2016, Random House)

Seriously how do I add books to "done reading" from the book page? And is there any way to toot without the toot being related to a book or a book event?