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A decent second entry in the series. Like the first book, you there’s plenty of clever, galaxy-spanning, political strategy and cool technology; and like the firs...

The good Unique, intriguing premise: in the future, every human being is “incorporated.” Upon birth, 100,000 shares are issued, of which 20% go to your p...

In the Remembrance of Earth’s Past series, Liu Cixin managed to blend dozens of incredible, mind-blowing ideas with fun characters and a great story to create one...

I’m happy to share with you the video and slides from my QCon talk on how to test infrastructure code! This talk is a step-by-step, live-coding class on how to w...

Did not finish. The prose was overly flowery (“purple prose”), the characters felt like something out of a bad film noir, and the story didn’t seem to go anywhere...

The good

The good Interesting new universe. Fun characters. Fun alien races. Cute family feel to the crew of the spaceship. A feel-good story of love, empathy,...

No matter how bad you thought the Trump administration was, they are much, much worse. This book looks at the damage they’ve done to some of the parts of the gov...

The good Hannibal Lecter is one of the most interesting villains in all fiction. And this book focuses almost exclusively on him (unlike Red Dragon, where he’...

An amusing, hit-and-miss story of angels, demons, the antichrist, and so on. Some parts of the book work well, and are full of absurd, nonchalant, tongue-in-cheek...