The Dark Forest by Liu Cixin (2008) For the first time this year, unlikely the last, I’ve shelved the previous read and moved on. It was almost three weeks ago when I picked up The Years of Rice and Salt by Kim Stanley Robinson, an alternative history novel set against the context of a pandemic …
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Reading | The Years of Rice and Salt (Robinson)
The Years of Rice and Salt by Kim Stanley Robinson (2002) Recently, I searched up and through a variety of online books lists. The point was to get some perspective on my quest to read more this year and to add some titles to my own prospective reading plan. “Fifty books to read before you’re …
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Reading | Prelude to Foundation (Asimov)
Prelude to Foundation by Isaac Asimov (1988) I’m sticking with a strong science fiction motif for this year’s reading list. So far, at least. When Prelude to Foundation was first published I was in the seventh grade and was about to have my mind blown by the writings of Isaac Asimov. I went through a …
Reading | The Three-Body Problem (Cixin)
The Three-Body Problem by Liu Cixin (2008) I’m a sucker for big ideas. Go ahead, book, blow my mind. Bring it on. Melt my preconceptions of the universe in a firey hot crucible and reforge everything I think I know about your topic into something new and interesting. That’s definitely not the default position of …