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
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