Blondie 24 revisited
I’ve just finished a re-read of Blondie 24 by David B. Fogel and subtitled “Playing at the edge of AI”…
Been too long…
It’s been far too long since I last posted reviews of the books we’ve been reading for bookgroup, and there are now too many to review individually. So here are my one line or paragraph…
Sir Terry Pratchett
I was going to continue my series of book posts with a review of the last book we read for bookgroup, but then I heard the news that Sir Terry Pratchett had died and decided…
Book Review – The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood
Let’s be clear here. This is not science fiction. The author says so. It’s “speculative fiction”, positing an alternative future to explore ideas about our world as it is now. Science fiction, according to Atwood,…
Book Review – The Cuckoo’s Calling by Robert Galbraith
As the entire world knows by now, Robert Galbraith is actually a pseudonym for J.K. Rowling, author of the Harry Potter books. I was pleased when this one came up for the book group, as…
Book Review – The Cyberiad
The second in my occasional series of brief book reviews is The Cyberiad by Stanislaw Lem. I skipped a month, so Joseph Conrad’s Nostromo went both unread and unreviewed. The Cyberiad centres around two robotic…
Book Review – Perdido Street Station
In addition to photography, web development and miscellaneous geekery, I’m a member of a bookgroup. We meet once a month to discuss books chosen originally from the 2003 BBC Big Read top 100 and now…