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Railsea by China Miéville - it is a marvel of imagination and world building. G.S. Denning's 'Warlock Holmes' series always makes me laugh out loud with Holmes cast as a rather unstable magician being bailed out by the ever-logical Watson. The Water Knife by Paolo Bacigalupi foresees dystopian cities and cutthroat water rights along the Colorado river.
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Xenogenesis, now being published under the title Lilith’s Brood, is about colonization, coercion, identity. Missing all of that because sex—and more importantly the changing nature of the humans’ desires—plays a large role in the work is missing the forest for the trees.
Who told you I missed anything?
1. Like every year "The daily stoic" 2. "The twilight zone" by Werner Herzog 3. "Thinking fast and slow" 4. "Hang the red lantern" 5. Currently reading "Menschliches allzu menschliches" by Nietzsche
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Could you share some examples of what you liked about it? I struggle with reading tech books when I am not sure what I can get out of them
I'd suggest searching HN for other reviews of the book since it comes up pretty frequently in these threads, but personally I liked that it covered a lot of ground quickly and fairly deeply, and the content remained engaging for me throughout. Some specific things I liked about the book were its coverage of SQL isolation levels and how they work, different ways to coordinate separate systems when you want atomicity (…
Gene Wolfe's The Book of the New Sun series. As someone who read a lot of sci-fi, I'm surprised I've discovered it only now. It's considered the Dostoevsky of scifi, very different from golden age hard scifi. Already started books of the Long Sun. Disappointment of the year - The three body problem. Feels like buying on amazon a product with thousand of rave reviews only to realize its all fake Chinese reviews.
I can second the New Sun series. The bizarre thing about this series is that it is a hole in my memory. I can remember reading it, I can remember liking it, and I can remember little snippets, but I can't remember most of the specifics. I've read the series twice , but even the second reading hasn't resolved this failure to recollect. Ironically -- likely on purpose -- that's the point. The series centres on an unrel…
I’m sure not everyone came here to hear tech book recommendations, but I will add another vote for Designing Data-Intensive Applications by Martin Kleppman. It’s one of the best tech reference books I’ve ever read. It manages to explain SO much while requiring so little prior knowledge from readers. Another book that is relatively new that I loved was Designing Machine Learning Systems by Chip Huyen. I worked in prod…