The Book of Disquiet – Fernando Pessoa
Life for the Portuguese poet certainly is not peachy…
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Caliban’s War – James S.A Corey
The second book in James S.A. Corey’s Expanse follows the story pretty much as expected.
Information Doesn’t Want to Be Free – Cory Doctorow
The arts in this new internet based economy do not work as we would think.
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Daemon – Daniel Suarez
Imagine a movie about an evil computer algorithm that wasn’t complete trash…
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..
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…
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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Failures in Polymathy 