Shelf
Recent things I’ve been reading, plus the stuff I’d recommend as support vectors to my current thoughts!
Recommended
The Dispossessed book
Amazing book, a totally different perspective on how crazy our world can look from even a slight outside perspective!
In the Queue
Borges and AI post up-next
Utopia, LOL? post up-next
A Stranger's Journey book up-next
The Gentle Seduction post up-next
Letter from Utopia post up-next
Man on Earth book up-next
Series starting with Too Like the Lightning.
Everything
| Title | Author | Type | Rating | Status | Comments |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| The Dispossessed | Ursula K. Le Guin | book | ★★★★★ | finished | Amazing book, a totally different perspective on how crazy our world can look from even a slight outside perspective! |
| Consider Phlebas | Iain M. Banks | book | ★★★☆☆ | finished | Skippable if you want to get straight to the deep Culture stuff and the Iain Banks universe vibe. |
| The Player of Games | Iain M. Banks | book | ★★★★☆ | finished | As people say, the one to read for post-scarcity utopia descriptions ASAP. |
| Use of Weapons | Iain M. Banks | book | ★★★★☆ | finished | Ambitious nonlinear storytelling, mostly great, a good mystery or slow build. |
| Excession | Iain M. Banks | book | in-progress | ||
| Fully Automated Luxury Communism | Aaron Bastani | book | in-progress | ||
| Meditations on Moloch | Scott Alexander | post | up-next | ||
| Borges and AI | Matt Farr | post | up-next | ||
| Hyperion | Dan Simmons | book | up-next | ||
| Utopia, LOL? | post | up-next | |||
| A Stranger's Journey | book | up-next | |||
| The Obstacle Is the Way | Ryan Holiday | book | up-next | ||
| The Gentle Seduction | Marc Stiegler | post | up-next | ||
| Letter from Utopia | Nick Bostrom | post | up-next | ||
| Order Without Design | Alain Bertaud | book | up-next | ||
| Accelerando | Charles Stross | book | up-next | ||
| Too Like the Lightning | Ada Palmer | book | up-next | ||
| Man on Earth | book | up-next | |||
| A Psalm for the Wild-Built | Becky Chambers | book | up-next | ||
| The Left Hand of Darkness | Ursula K. Le Guin | book | up-next | ||
| Never Let Me Go | Kazuo Ishiguro | book | ★★★★☆ | finished | Super sad and emotional book. |
| A Prayer for the Crown-Shy | Becky Chambers | book | up-next | ||
| Snow Crash | Neal Stephenson | book | up-next | ||
| Terra Ignota | Ada Palmer | book | up-next | Series starting with Too Like the Lightning. | |
| The Fountainhead | Ayn Rand | book | up-next | ||
| The Honor Code | Kwame Anthony Appiah | book | up-next |