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Book – ****+ Home (2017)

rmann March 17, 2019 March 26, 2019Movie and Book Reviews 0

With the return of Myron and Win, Harlan Coban delivers another complex plot tracking the ten-year old disappearance of two boys and the shattered lived surrounding the event.

Book – ****+ Homo Deus (2017)

rmann March 15, 2019 March 26, 2019Movie and Book Reviews 0

Yuval Harari outlines the trends and pressures that are rapidly replacing human control of evolving society and placing its future in the hands of algorithymic fictions we’ve created to drive toward questionable goals. Without even the emergence of the Singularity, we are relinquishing our choices to computer systems driving us…

Book – ****+ Spinning Silver (2017)

rmann March 4, 2019 March 26, 2019Movie and Book Reviews 0

Another compelling book by Naomi Novik, but not the sequel to Uprootedthat I thought it was. Naomi has a gift for character that turns her story of moneylenders into a major work of magical fantasy.

Book – ****+ The Animals after Midnight (2019)

rmann February 27, 2019 March 26, 2019Movie and Book Reviews 0

Another Darby Holland crime novel by Jeff Johnson. In the same setting as Luck Supreme, Darby avoids a deadly nemesis from his past, while struggling to adjust to the imminent wedding and departure of Delia.

Book – ***** Sapiens (2016)

rmann February 12, 2019 March 26, 2019Movie and Book Reviews 0

Masterpiece of historical philosophy. Yuval Harari has put together a consistent model of the development of human society identifying businesses, nations, and religions as convenient fictions that humans indulge in to allow themselves to cooperate in large numbers delivering first the Agricultural Revolution, then the Industrial Revolution, and finally the…

Book – ****+ Elon Musk (2015)

rmann January 20, 2019 March 26, 2019Movie and Book Reviews 0

Non-fiction biography of Elon Musk’s obsessions and his rise to become a technological superpower. Space flight, electric vehicles, and underground tunneling are not science fiction, but practical daily pursuits to a driven man who reminds me of Ayne Rand’s Howard Roark, unafraid to challenge both bureaucracy and conventional wisdom at…

Book – ****+ Fall of Giants (2010)

rmann January 10, 2019 March 26, 2019Movie and Book Reviews 0

Ken Follett masterpiece of World War I history told from the POV of English coal miners and aristocrats, Russian peasants, and American diplomats.

Book – **** Skyward (2018)

rmann December 30, 2018 March 26, 2019Movie and Book Reviews 0

Brandon Sanderson’s futuristic fighter pilots battle aliens who’ve constrained humanity to a single planet that the human space fleet once crashed on.

Book – ****+ Death’s End (2010)

rmann December 20, 2018 March 26, 2019Movie and Book Reviews 0

Completion of Cixin Liu’s sci.fi. trilogy of galactic threat, where mankind’s discoveries and adaptations allow humans access to interstellar space and influence over the future of the galaxy as a whole.

Book – ****+ The Dark Forest (2010)

rmann October 30, 2018 March 26, 2019Movie and Book Reviews 0

Continuation of Cixin Liu’s sci.fi. trilogy where wallfacers are selected to thwart the Trisolaris invasion fleet. Through hibernation, characters extend their story threads far into the future where humanity has adapted to the threats surrounding it.

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Book – ****+ Home (2017)

Book – ****+ Homo Deus (2017)

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Book – ****+ Fall of Giants (2010)

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