I just finished reading Svante Paabo's autobiography, Neanderthal
Man: In Search of Lost Genomes.
The book is perfect -- if you're a biologist of any kind, you'll
understand most of it without any trouble, and even physicists can
probably get a lot out of the story (heh).
Just finished the book The Fragile Light, by David Nurenberg.
Good stuff; independent author. Worth reading.
Briefly, it's a SF&F novel about a world where mutants are sometimes
heroes, and more often feared; where there are Herotown ghettoes full
of supers; and where only licensed heroes can join in …
I read a lot of total crap, and one of my recurring crap authors has
been John Ringo. He's a total nutjob politically, but he writes good
battle scenes and is an enjoyable read once you cut through the
nonsense. Still, I'm having a tough time getting through the opening …
I'm midway through Scott Rosenberg's Dreaming in Code,
and I can unabashedly recommend it to anyone who likes a good yarn.
Yes, it's about software development, and you'll need a fair bit of
technical exposure -- not experience, just exposure -- to navigate the
references. But anyone who is reading this, including …
While on travels (visiting the Computational Biology Initiative in San Antonio, Texas) I read two
fiction books that were a cut above my normal sci-fi and fantasy
reading material.
The Geographer's Library,
by Jon Fasman was an entertaining read about alchemists. It took the
same sort of pseudo-intellectual approach to …