Book Reviews
Reviews of things I've read.•Back to Reviews Page
The Diamond Age or a Young Lady's Illustrated Primer • 1995 • Neal Stephenson • Unique and engaging world-building, wonderful protagonist in Nell, and thought- provoking mix of Chinese and English Victorian cultures as the dominant societies of the future. Very original picture of the future. • Loved It!
The Friendly Orange Glow • 2017 • Brian Dear • It's no secret I love computer history stories, and this really captures the era it covers. A must read. • Loved It!
The Ministry for the Future • Kim Stanley Robinson • I enjoyed this book when I read it, because they captured the climate change disaster headed our way. What they didn't foresee, however, is just how insane governments all over the world would go before we even get that far. Not dystopian enough after all. • Liked It
The Silo Series Collection • One of the best dystopian series ever written. Kind of hard to read in early 2025 though. • Loved It!
The Vanished Birds • 2020 • Simon Jiminez • A very unique sci-fi and somewhat haunting story of individualism, loyalty, corruption, and the greed of corporate power. • Loved It!
Things Become Other Things • 2025 • Craig Mod Craig is a fascinating guy, not least because of the fact he's ingrained himself into the culture of Japan, a country I grew up in, but because he's an artful storyteller and photographer. In this book, he brings the reader along on one of his long walks through the Japan countryside as he ties the pieces of his past together with his present in a way that few people can. • Loved It!
Tracers in the Dark • Andy Greenberg • Truly anonymous finance is the wet dream of the libertarian crypto bros, but it's a lie. Turns out logging everything is actually just like logging everything. Tons of wild and wacky fun. • Loved It!
Virtual Light • 1993 • William Gibson • A very good book, imaginative and hopefully not prophetic. The first of a series that works together better as the sum of its parts, but individually, this one is a good read. • Liked It
When the Moon Hits Your Eye • 2025 • John Scalzi This is what should be called a silly, maybe even dumb, book. But it isn't. It's fun. And it manages to make a few relevant points about humanity along the way. • Loved It!
