Reading notes
What I've been reading.
Books I've finished, with a short synopsis and what I actually took away from each one.
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The Deep Sky
The earth is ravaged by environmental damage, and everybody get together to send the best of their youth to other planets to save humanity.
We're on the ship with this youth th...
Embassytown
We are at the edge of the "visitable" space and there, on a planet, there is a bubble called "embassytown" - a bubble from the outside where another type of lifeform exists. The...
There Is No Antimemetics Division
There is a secret world organisation that takes care of the secret things in the dark. There is a department in this division called the Antimemetics Division and they take care...
The House in the Cerulean Sea
It is set in a world where some people are born magical and where until recently, these people have been condemned by society.
Now a government has an agency to look after the ...
Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World
The book is what the title says.
A scientific journalist looks at a lot of anecdotes and research around generalists and their strength.
Fun anecdotes and examples are:
- Ser...
House of Suns
Clones with variance that can live eternally are roaming the galaxy - touring around in trips counted in hundred of thousands of years.
They collect info and technology.
When ...
The Goblin Emperor
A young man rejected by his father the emperor finds himself on the throne of an Elf kingdom after his father and half-brothers die in a air-balloon crash.
No one at the court ...
The Mountain in the sea
Ha is a scientist who specialises in octopus communication/consciousness/civilisation.
She's invited to study on an island, with the only synthetic human on earth, the possibi...
Finite and Infinite Games
In life, there are many finite games - games where there's a winner, voluntarily join and taken seriously - and one infinite game, that is fun to play.
In 100 paragraphs, we'r...
Null State
Following the events of Infomocracy, side characters now are the main protagonists. The story happens in Darfour, where there's suspicion about Information as well as old habits...
Infomocracy
We're a century in the future and there's a new form of politics: centennals. They are agglomeration of 100.000 people who get to vote on their government. The elections are org...