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E-book extras: "Stephensonia/Cryptonomica": ONE: "Cryptonomicon Cypher-FAQ" (Neal addresses "Frequently Anticipated Questions" and other fascinating facts); TWO: "Mother Earth Motherboard" (Neal's …
In The Hidden Life of Trees, Peter Wohlleben shares his deep love of woods …
further into the woods ... This has been on my list and after Overstory and even Binti, it feels like the connection to the world to add into the mix
The astrobiologist Theo Byrne searches for life throughout the cosmos while single-handedly raising his unusual nine-year-old, Robin, following the death …
The Overstory is a novel by Richard Powers published in 2018 by W. W. Norton & Company. It is Powers' …
The Overstory is a novel by Richard Powers published in 2018 by W. W. Norton …
beautifully entwined story, and a welcome reality check on where we humans fit in. It was the words to feelings I've had my whole life and not captured.
In December, 1999, a multinational team journeys out to the stars, to the most awesome encounter in human history. Who …
Okonkwo is the greatest warrior alive. His fame has spread like a bushfire in West …
rereading this one, with my youngest kiddo.
The concluding part of the highly-acclaimed science fiction trilogy that began with Nnedi Okorafor's Hugo- …
This series is so delightful. Despite the specifics of the plot, it presents raw human comforts and discomforts in a most organic and natural way that. It leaves me wanting more in this universe, and to feel and smell the what the characters do.
It's been a year since Binti and Okwu enrolled at Oomza University. A year since Binti was declared a hero …
Her name is Binti, and she is the first of the Himba people ever to be offered a place at …
E-book extras: "Stephensonia/Cryptonomica": ONE: "Cryptonomicon Cypher-FAQ" (Neal addresses "Frequently Anticipated Questions" and other fascinating facts); …
I think I'm tired of Neal Stephenson. Having been making my way through Cryptonomicon. Currently about 2/3 through the book. This book is sounding like the birth of cryptocurrency, which... I could live without. This book has lots of "this is why it's so hard being a blessed white guy" and Jew stereotypes and even some projection of how a Nazi may have seen white-men-in-black-face and not been able to tell the difference from a Caribbean native... Also, so much assumed function and expectation of literally "fucking' women. It isn't a scarce focus... I already imagine him providing a response like "you see, it's not racist because I take a balanced approach" or whatever. Almost the South Park argument.
Do not care to finish this book.
Tackling some of humanity’s oldest questions along with new quandaries only he could imagine, these stories will change the way …
