The Mirage by Matt Ruff
4/5
A brilliant and detailed transposition of 9/11 in America to 11/9 in Arabia. I thought it was going to be a one trick pony but Mirage also delivers a solid thriller.
4/5
A brilliant and detailed transposition of 9/11 in America to 11/9 in Arabia. I thought it was going to be a one trick pony but Mirage also delivers a solid thriller.
4/5
Probably not what happens when you die... but you never know.
4/5
Plenty of solid advice backed up by data and sample code. I picked up a few new optimizations to try and a couple to revisit from reading this book. Well recommended if you want to make a site faster.
3/5
The first book is very well done, but in the genre of forcing kids to kill each other I have to say I prefer Battle Royale. Battle Royale is more of a horror story, The Hunger Games has this element but it's also a fantasy about escaping poverty to makeovers and banquets as well. The second book sags a little and then the third book really picks up the pace and ends very strongly. Quick and worthwhile read.
3/5
I read this straight after the Wool series. The Shift trilogy fills in the back story of how the silos were created and then starts to overlap with the events from Wool. Shift didn't have quite the same tension as Wool and I didn't care about the characters as much. Still hooked though and can't wait for Dust later this year...
4/5
Collection of five novellas set in a mysterious silo. A little more is revealed with each chapter and the series gets more compelling and ambiguous as we learn more about what's really going on. Didn't know what to expect (got this as a Christmas Present) but very enjoyable and I've gone straight on to the next omnibus with a final tranche due later this year.
2/5
I always want to like Kim Stanley Robinson a lot more than I do. The setup here is an interesting mystery set in a fascinating fully populated Solar System and if 2312 delivered on this premise it could have been a great book. But it's bogged down with exposition and a lengthy middle section on randomly repopulating extinct mammals and ended up just being a slog for me.
2/5
Sigh. The man can contradict himself in the space of a single sentence. Must stop...
4/5
Perfectly well oiled comedy of errors.
3/5
Solid but somewhat routine Culture installment.
3/5
Solid Reacher installment.
4/5
Excellent collection of articles and a couple of short stories. Worth reading just for the Wired article on the technology and politics of submarine cables.
5/5
Epic Murakami, set in a maybe-alternate-universe version of 1984. There is a definite change in tone in the third book, hard to tell if this is the story of the change in translator but the story sags slightly before picking up the pace again at the end. Even without this it's a long and sprawling book which you'll love if you like Murakami's tone and unique characterization. I'm in the love camp.
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ITHCWY: #OV105 http://t.co/m7Th3xMp
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Earth and WebCams announcement from http://t.co/YG0xtwCc: http://t.co/KlJfVs9j
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5/5
Stonking police procedural set in the months leading up to a global catastrophe.
5/5
Excellent techno-thriller. A little more serious and focused than Daemon and Freedom (TM). It's about a worst case drone scenario, ants, extra-special forces and some smart birds. Very good.
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Bill Nye declares Todd Akin "fucking idiot"; issues debate challenge http://t.co/AZ3k55Y4 #fb
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Diaspora Founders To Move On, Handing Over Decentralized Social Network ‘To The Community’ http://t.co/KQGb2kpv -- sad, but not the future
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Tuesdays http://t.co/BLNiCP3H
Twitter Cuts Off Tumblr's Ability to Find Friends http://t.co/1g3ZcClf
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Windows 8 Is Now Available For Developers (And For Everybody Else, There’s A 90-Day Free Trial, Too) http://t.co/iu1li6BV
Gotye's YouTube orchestra remix of "Somebody That I Used to Know" http://t.co/OUEXXltQ
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BBC News - Mars rover makes first colour panorama http://t.co/fZ7u8smZ
How Apple and Amazon Security Flaws Led to My Epic Hacking http://t.co/BDmRAbm3
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Pay for a new social network with no ads? https://t.co/2tox3c2y Anyone I know going to be on there? #fb
Curiosity http://t.co/D2cyWE66
BBC News - Photo shows Mars rover descent http://t.co/KfOv1qOF
Catfood WebCams for Android - Catfood Software http://t.co/VzeySq90 via @CatfoodSoftware
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What a happy coincidence. As well as #IPAday it's also goof off at work day: http://t.co/7AItItWq
Apparently it's #IPADay - luckily there's some @21stAmendment in the fridge. http://t.co/jyYPSePC
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