The Filter Bubble – Eli Pariser
The internet is no longer a wide field of free information. It’s being given to you mediated, and the mediators are starting to have an effect on us..
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Stand on Zanzibar – John Brunner
It’s a strange, ‘happening’ future. Contemporary, and sixty years too late
Future Crimes – Marc Goodman
Its a great time to be alive. That is, unless you know what is going on. Then its kind of scary.
Jennifer Government – Max Barry
Corporations have slowly been taking over the world, and they are no free to run amok…
Fire and Fury – Michael Wolff
A book that needs little introduction
Altered Carbon – Richard K Morgan
I’m more philosophical than your novel….
But I’m three weeks late of being topical. Curses…
Selected Epigrams – Martial (Translated by Susan McLean)
The first century Roman poet fills you in on just what Roman society was like. It’s not what you think.
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It – Stephen King
The children of a small town are being terrorized by an otherworldly entity taking the form of their fears- and a clown.
The once and future liberal – Mark Lilla
One of the more unsurprising finger-pointing books regarding the last election, this one aims itself at identity politics.
The Dreaming Jewels – Theodore Sturgeon
A strange adopted child ends up on the run…
Failures in Polymathy 