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Oryx and Crake, by Margaret Atwood
Honestly, I’ve never been fond of chicken. As a child I refused to eat it after I read that birds were the modern relatives of dinosaurs. If you wouldn’t eat snake or lizard why would you eat a chicken? My mother still refers to it occasionally by my label when I ask what she’s making: [...]
Margaret Atwood: Sci-Fi Speculation Informs Our Choice of Future
Margaret Atwood is a good interview, and there’s plenty of interviews available. She’s done a whole series on religion on YouTube, and I previewed several vids where she discussed the MaddAddam Trilogy. The Year of the Flood is out in paperback already, and I’ll be looking for some enlightening material to post on the development [...]
Love + Sex with Robots, by David Levy
I haven’t been reading much, and this book took me forever. A brilliant compilation of research on attachment, technology, and sexology, I skipped through it and doubled back. I don’t know why. A few laborious passages on pets or prostitution left me cold, but in the end I think I got it. I certainly discussed [...]
In Defense of Food, by Micheal Pollan
The hard part is the follow through. We hear all the time about the dangers of processed foods, and many of us have experienced first hand the benefits of a healthy diet, at least a healthy meal or two, and the satisfaction of real food. I feel better physically if I eat my vegetables and [...]
The Ghost Map, by Steven Johnson
When the Broad Street well became contaminated with cholera, it was demonstrated by a pattern of deaths radiating from the source, describing a social network. Steven Johnson eloquently uses the map of the epidemic to launch a discussion of the macro and micro; the conditions of Victorian England, and the personalities who founded the science [...]
Untouched by Human Hands, by Robert Sheckley
Outrageously original, wickedly funny sci-fi. I was lamenting the quality of recent sci-fi reads to a librarian (Jim, from the Fiction Department of LAPL Central) and he handed me this book. The copy I read was lushly vintage, with spotted pages and an anonymous rebound cover. The real wow is the fact that this collection [...]
A blog without books..
I’ve made myself a new blog. Why? Because I didn’t want to clutter this one with a pile of outgoing links, but I still wanted to document my own travels on the web. I’ve gone far beyond reading the news. With a sophisticated collection of productivity tools and social networking sites, every day I [...]
The Difference Engine, by William Gibson and Bruce Sterling
More actors than a telenovela stumble through a labyrinth of intrigue in this seminal Steampunk tome. There are enough points of view to disorganize a kaleidoscope; flashbacks and flashforwards; invented terms and slang. I still don’t know if I actually liked it. Rather, its a book I’ll recommend to interested parties in esoteric conversations about [...]
The Jesuit and the Skull, by Amir Aczel
Wow, what a cool book. Hard to say what made a better story, the charming, yet free-thinking priest, or the details of life among the Australopithecus. Admittedly, I am partial to this sort of tale, since I wrote a research paper on hominid evolution in eighth grade, and have followed developments in paleoanthropology ever since, [...]
Spook Country, by William Gibson
Someone told Casey, Pattern Recognition is better.. The repeat of certain characters does make the second book feel somewhat formulaic, especially with a female lead of about the same age. Still, I felt these two books were apple and orange, and each an entertaining read. Hubertus Bigend returns with his advertising empire Blue Ant, this [...]
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