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7 Must-Read Books on Time

Posted on Monday, October 17, 2011 by author-unknown

What the second law of thermodynamics has to do with Saint Augustine, landscape art, and graphic novels.
Time is the most fundamental common denominator between our existence and that of everything else, it’s the yardstick by which we measure nearly … Continue reading →

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A Coffee Table Book that Traces the Earliest History of Science Fiction [Book Review]

Posted on Thursday, October 13, 2011 by author-unknown

Science fiction scholar Mike Ashley provides a textual accompaniment to the British Library’s exhibition Out of This World Science Fiction: but not as you know it with his large full-color coffee table book that traces various themes within science fic… Continue reading →

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Neal Stephenson’s Reamde is a high-tech incarnation of the Great American Novel [Book Review]

Posted on Thursday, October 13, 2011 by author-unknown

Neal Stephenson’s new novel Reamde seems like it could never work: it’s an epic-length thriller packed with infodumps about obscure ideas and 200-page gun fights. But the book is fantastic. Stephenson stages a crazy narrative collision between Chinese… Continue reading →

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Puns, Puzzles, and Easter eggs in Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale [Books]

Posted on Tuesday, October 11, 2011 by author-unknown

Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale is justly admired as one of the great dystopian novels, but just how deep does it go? Daniel Abraham, author of The Dragon’s Path and many other novels, and co-author of Leviathan Wakes, explores the clues in Atwoo… Continue reading →

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Alexander added ‘Decoding Reality: The Universe as Quantum Information’

Posted on Wednesday, October 5, 2011 by Beanbag

Alexander gave 2 stars to: Decoding Reality: The Universe as Quantum Information (Hardcover)
by
Vlatko Vedral

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nonfiction,

science

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Alexander added ‘The House of Wisdom: How Arabic Science Saved Ancient Knowledge and Gave Us the Renaissance’

Posted on Wednesday, October 5, 2011 by Beanbag

Alexander marked as to-read: The House of Wisdom: How Arabic Science Saved Ancient Knowledge and Gave Us the Renaissance (Hardcover)
by
Jim Al-Khalili

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Alexander added ‘A Strange Wilderness: The Lives of the Great Mathematicians’

Posted on Monday, October 3, 2011 by Beanbag

Alexander marked as to-read: A Strange Wilderness: The Lives of the Great Mathematicians (Hardcover)
by
Amir D. Aczel

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to-read

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Alexander added ‘The Fabric of Reality’

Posted on Wednesday, September 28, 2011 by Beanbag

Alexander gave 3 stars to: The Fabric of Reality (Penguin Science)
by
David Deutsch

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nonfiction,

science

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FLOWCHART: Navigating NPR's Top 100 Science Fiction and Fantasy Books

Posted on Monday, September 26, 2011 by author-unknown

Over the summer, NPR solicited the input of its listeners to rank the top science fiction and fantasy books of all time. Over 60,000 people voted for the top picks which were then compiled into a list by their panel of experts. The result? This list of… Continue reading →

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Alexander added ‘The Last Colony’

Posted on Saturday, September 24, 2011 by Beanbag

Alexander gave 4 stars to: The Last Colony (Old Man’s War, #3)
by
John Scalzi

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fiction,

nonfiction

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Neal Stephenson Says Video Games Are the Metaverse

Posted on Tuesday, September 20, 2011 by author-unknown

An anonymous reader writes "In an interview with Forbes Magazine, Neal Stephenson says the 'Metaverse' he created in his seminal novel Snow Crash missed the point — and that video games like World of Warcraft are the true future of cyber… Continue reading →