In 2023 I has mostly been reading…

Read read so far this year (2023)

This year 2023, I has mostly been reading: Iain M Banks, Charles Stross, Isaac Asimov and Terry Pratchett.


Sci-fi

Iain M Banks: Inversions, The Player of Games, Use of Weapons, The State of the Art, Inversions. Also, The Culture Series of Iain M Banks:A critical Introduction by Simone Caroti

Charles Stross: The Apocalypse Codex, Rule 34, The Fuller Memorandum, The Atrocity Archives, The Jennifer Morgue.

Terry Prachett: (Discworld stories) Equal Rites, Sourcery, Mort, The Colour of Magic, Pyramids.

Isaac Asimov: Foundations Edge, Foundation and Earth.

John Scalzi: Old Man’s War

Biography:

Elon Musk by  Walter Isaacson

Classics:

Meditations by the Roman Emperor Marcus Aurelius

The Putney Debates (The Putney Debates, which took place from 28 October to 8 November 1647, were a series of discussions over the political settlement that should follow Parliament‘s victory over Charles I in the First English Civil War.)

Miscellaneous: Norse Mythology by Neil Gaiman plus various titles about homesteading and Ireland.

Currently reading:

The Annihilation Score by Charles Stross, a book about raising livestock and an entomological textbook about structure and function

Books

The Universe is a Hydrogen Sonata

The universe is a Hydrogen Sonata?

Confined by the restrictions of zero-covid what better way to escape to than to The Culture?

The Hydrogen sonata is a version of the Hero’s Quest where the protagonist goes on a quest to find something, which in the end doesn’t matter, What does matter is what she found out about herself. 

Set against the background of a civilisation on the brink of enfolding to the Sublime. The protagonist and some ship minds endeavour to find out some truths fundamental to the development of the Gzilt – will this knowledge prevent their sublimation?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Hydrogen_Sonata