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Reentry by Eric Berger. It came out in October. It's a follow up to his book Liftoff from 2021. Great books for space nerds. Makes me really admire what Space X has accomplished while also eliminating any desire I had to work for them.
Liftoff is already on my list, actually! Thought I'd read that one first before deciding whether to get Reentry.
Both great books.
* "Beware of Chicken" by CasualFarmer
* "The Immaculate Collection" by havlo
* "The Runic Artist" by Ellake
* "The Broken Knife" by SilverSidhe
* "Immovable Mage" by ImmovableMage
* "The Gorgon Incident and Other Stories" by John Bierce
* "Quest Academy" by Brian J. Nordon
* "The Weirkey Chronicles" by Sarah Lin
Michel Houellebecq, Annihilation . A clear-eyed and direct novel about the meaning and measure of individual human life in our modern age -- and yet it concedes nothing to modern literary or social fashions, but instead goes for universality and timelessness.
I finally read Sapiens, by Yuval Noah Harari. Powerful ideas.
I found “Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!" - Autobiography about Richard Feynman very interesting
The End of Race Politics by Coleman Hughes. Pretty good book. I used to be a bleeding heart liberal with pro social justice (read: pro affirmative action) sentiments, but he makes a compelling case against it. Also, it's very well written and fun to read
It very credibly tells an agonizingly familiar human story, from the perspective of a inescapably inhuman android protagonist - by seeing the world through her eyes, you also learn who she is, and what her experience of consciousness is - you in fact are offered a precious insight into the nature of artificial consciousness that no one else in the book is quite properly aware of.
The End of Race Politics by Coleman Hughes. Pretty good book. I used to be a bleeding heart liberal with pro social justice (read: pro affirmative action) sentiments, but he makes a compelling case against it. Also, it's very well written and fun to read
No thanks tbh. This isn’t identity politics. It’s just live and let live.
The End of Race Politics by Coleman Hughes. Pretty good book. I used to be a bleeding heart liberal with pro social justice (read: pro affirmative action) sentiments, but he makes a compelling case against it. Also, it's very well written and fun to read
The author of this book is against trans people being able to exist in this world. No thanks tbh. This isn’t identity politics. It’s just live and let live.