2030: The Real Story of What Happens to America by Albert Brooks My rating: 4 of 5 stars This is the fourth book I’ve read recently which depicts a world which seems entirely plausible when you look at today’s trends in society and technology. That means you don’t get flying cars, jetpacks, or colonization of […]
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Embassytown book review
Embassytown by China Miéville My rating: 4 of 5 stars Embassytown is told as a sort of memoir of a woman who grew up in a small colony on the edge of nowhere. She lives in a small human-populated area of a city formed by aliens she (and most humans) know little about. Like many […]
The Long Earth
The Long Earth by Terry Pratchett My rating: 4 of 5 stars The basic conceit behind The Long Earth is simple: There are parallel universes and one day human beings discover they can “step” from one to the next quite easily. But while most parallel universe stories would use this as a stepping stone to […]
Garbology
America is full of junk. Like, a lot of junk. Like we generate more trash per capita than any other nation in the world… an average of 102 tons per person over the course of a lifetime. When Edward Humes started out to write a book about America’s trash legacy he thought the number was […]
Book review: Visit Sunny Chernobyl
It sounds like a silly idea at first: visiting seven of the most polluted places on the planet and treating them as vacation spots. But from the moment he hits the ground in Chernobyl and as we follow him to Canada, Texas, the Pacific Garbage Patch, Brazil, China, and India, Blackwell is an engaging story […]
The Hunger Games Trilogy
Note: I’m still experimenting with how best to write about books without reading spoilers. I think I’ve largely managed to do that here, but if you don’t want to know anything about the series other than whether it’s worth reading, the answer is yes. I just spent the last week reading The Hunger Games Trilogy by […]