Science-Fiction – Page 5 – Failures in Polymathy

Make Room! Make Room! – Harry Harrison

The word of the day is: Malthusian

Here is a thought – The Bobiverse is nerd-cred done right.

I once thought that reviewing a longer series would be a good idea, but as I got on with this one I felt that there were diminishing returns.

Cloud Atlas made me want to reread a certain classic.

Sometimes as you read a sequel you just hope beyond hope that it wasn’t a marketing departments decision.

The ship of Theseus is a pretty applicable bit of philosophy. Here’s a thought: are you the same reader you were 20 years ago?

Some books are more akin to fast food than a proper meal.

Leibniz is not once mentioned in the novel. So why do I keep thinking about him?

What happens when you read the sequel to a novel you didn’t really feel needed a sequel?

For We Are Many raises the stakes on what was set up in the first book of the series.