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This was good. Margaret Atwood is always good. But I like her so much better when she's funny than when she's mainly worthy.

Any minute now the hipsters are going to turn up on my mental post-apocalyptic wasteland with their fixy bikes and Cath Kidson thermoses and I'm going to have to blow them to kingdom come with a Big Fuckoff Gun. Nonetheless, these pictures are awesome and encapsulate all that I find beautiful and fascinating about Amerika ( Read more... )

I'm sure I've used that blog title before. And I'm sure I've posted about the uncanny valley before. But Semagic is failing me on both counts, which is ironic if you think about it. More and more existence seems to be a web of deja vu, spin and vaguely remembered conversations in dreams ( Read more... )

Picked it up because it was about Buenos Aires society, and I'd been talking about Buenos Aires with someone the day before. You know how it goes ( Read more... )

Cool book. Won't review it in too much detail as it's on the Bibgoths long list. It was a kind of engrossing world for me - loved the biotech stuff, and watching humans being just as frail and crappy even when they've achieved a semblance of immortality. Good ending as well - mostly sci-fi books jsut seem to collapse into a finale that makes me ( Read more... )

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Hahaha. This was awesome. It was recommended to me as a good Neal Stephenson book to read, so it was likely to be enjoyable, but I wasn't prepared to enjoy it as much as I did. Basically a reasonably good novel involving a really interesting part of history and some delicious nerdy maths stuff to rub thighs over. Again, it was nerd-stuff that was ( Read more... )

Another random grab off the library shelf, mostly because t was non-fiction and also beecause I luvz waves, I do. Then when I got it home, I was prepared to be disappointed as it seemed to be a whistle-stop tour of everything wave related, and I was already pretty sure I knew everything it was likely to tell me about waves. Theoretical chemist here ( Read more... )

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