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 …
Category archives: science fiction
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 …
Reading | Dune (Herbert)
Dune by Frank Herbert (1965) It is as though there are certain novels that need more than one read-through to appreciate in full. I don’t recall exactly who said it, but… I was listening to a podcast this summer. The guest (to whatever particular show it was I was listening) suggested giving oneself permission to …