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This is a story of diplomacy and warfare of conspiracy and betryal and of three people from two enemy civilizations. …
I'm still not quite sure what to make of this. The most interesting aspect of the book, I think, is that you get to see a lot of quite technical topics in logic through the eyes of a journalist who is not really a mathematician. Also, the language is quite nice. Overall, I liked it.
Richard K. Morgan has received widespread praise for his astounding twenty-fifth-century novels featuring Takeshi Kovacs, …
I was somewhat disappointed with the second book in this series because it didn't really deliver on what I wanted out of this. This is not at all a problem here; you are getting exactly what you expect: Lots of violence in interesting settings, involving interesting characters. If you liked the first one, you will also enjoy this one (you could actually skip the second one without much harm, I think).
Richard K. Morgan has received widespread praise for his astounding twenty-fifth-century novels featuring Takeshi Kovacs, and has established a growing …
Richard K. Morgan has received widespread praise for his astounding twenty-fifth-century novels featuring Takeshi Kovacs, and has established a growing …
It was enjoyable but nothing beyond that. I'd neither encourage anyone to nor dissuade anyone from reading it.
This book is unfortunately just a mixture of blockhain cringe and what I like to call Wikipedia fiction (i.e. fiction in the spirit of someone who just learned of Wikipedia and now things the internet will somehow solve all societal problems; think Neal Stephenson). Doesn't align at all with my political views so not at all enjoyable. (I believe the only way such books can be enjoyed is if they can give you hope for the future, which this one doesn't for me)
Established in 2025, the purpose of the new organization was simple: To advocate for the …
Actually not reading at all but listening as an audio book instead
I have enjoyed some of the author's past books and this is more of the same: A fairly complex political/economic system being explained in some detail, highlighting the clever ideas and tricks come up with by some clever people to circumvent it/get an edge. The only problem this time is that it focused on baseball, which I know only the very basics of (certainly not all of the lingo they seem to have). Still very fun, but I'd recommend going to the more purely economic titles, like "Flash Boys" or "The big short" first.
@tfb@functional.cafe Ostensibly Asimov realized this himself and the last books in the series are a lot more mellow and critical of the perspective of the first few (as they were written quite a while later to soothe publishers hounding him about a sequel). Probably still doesn't make it worthwhile reading it tho.
Started listening to the audio book.
