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Pleasant book. A diverse crew of sapients travel on a ship to a new ally/foe. It is more about the voyage than the destiny. Both the actual voyage and the relations between the crewmembers.

Lekker leesbaar boek over de tijdsgeest tijdens de overgang van traditie naar de 70er jaren.

After reading a lot of non-fiction it was a pleasure to read a good story.

Drieluik over de sowjettijd en wat erna kwam. Het soort boek wat je de ontwikkelingen en de geschiedenis in een land beter doet begrijpen. Maar het is niet alleen leerzaam, het zijn nog boeiende verhalen ook.

The books starts with a (very readable) history hacking but then turns into a series of meeting minutes. Conversations and events are described in excruciating detail. Every meeting the author is described which can distracting. Eventually even the Italian five-star movement is mentioned (in pages and pages of conversations). But it never becomes clear how this is relevant for a book titled "coding democracy". Most of the stuff about the European political movement is not about hacking at all. In the end it left me wondering what point the author was trying to make.