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Cyberpunk, Fiction, Young Adult  0 Comments

January 4, 2019November 4, 2018

Little Brother – Cory Doctorow

Little Brother deals with some pretty serious topics, but distills them down to a point where even kids will find it all to be a bit silly.

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AI, Artificial Intelligence, Current Events, Cyberpunk, Essays, Future, Humanism, Internet, Non-Fiction, Science  0 Comments

December 28, 2018August 24, 2018

What to think about Machines that think – John Brockman

You could take a bunch of classes to find out the philosophy behind AI. This is a much cheaper shortcut

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Comics, Feminism, Fiction, Science-Fiction, Short Stories, Super Heroes  0 Comments

December 21, 2018September 15, 2018

The Refrigerator Monologues – Catherynne M Valente

Did you ever think that there was something missing from a story only to realize that someone part of the narrative has been left out? That’s what this book is about.

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Internet, Internet Culture, Non-Fiction, Politics  0 Comments

December 14, 2018August 20, 2018

Kill all Normies – Angela Nagle

Angela Nagle’s ‘Kill all Normies’ takes a look at how internet cultures have fostered the current political environment.

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Conspiracy, Cyberpunk, Fiction, Mythology, Science-Fiction, Uncategorized  0 Comments

December 7, 2018August 28, 2018

Snow Crash – Neal Stephenson

In a future where governments are disappearing and corporations have taken over, a virus is being used to take over the world…

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AI, Artificial Intelligence, Computer, Cyberpunk, Future, Non-Fiction, Science, Science-Fiction, Technology  1 Comment

November 30, 2018August 20, 2018

Life 3.0 – Max Tegmark

Bright future ahead? I mean, maybe. It could also be rather bleak. Max Tegmark thinks that it all depends on what we prepare for.

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Fantasy, Fiction, Science-Fiction, Uncategorized  0 Comments

November 23, 2018November 21, 2018

Monday Starts on Saturday Arkady and Boris Strugatsky

A mysterious soviet research institute is best described as… kind of zany.

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Cancer, History, Medical History, Medicine, Non-Fiction  0 Comments

November 16, 2018August 11, 2018

The Emperor of All Maladies – Siddhartha Mukherjee

The Emperor of all Maladies is a wonderfully and detailed look at a terrifying disease – cancer. It does so in exacting detail.

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Fiction  0 Comments

November 9, 2018August 24, 2018

The Gap of Time – Jeanette Winterson

It was only a matter of time before a retelling turned into a ‘remix’. And of course it happened to Shakespeare…

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Current Events, Humanism, Non-Fiction, Science  0 Comments

November 2, 2018August 11, 2018

Enlightenment Now – Steven Pinker

Steven Pinker wants to prove that things are not so bad right now., and will even get better if we focus on the correct things.

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