A particularly depressing book. However that does not mean I won’t recommend it! What really happens to the people whose lives have been upended by a bomb blast? This is that story. The book begins with an explosion, and then it simmers, before boiling towards another.
If you have any interest at all in speculative fiction, or science fiction in general, just go ahead and buy this book. Eight fantastic stories that cover domains from language to physics and mathematics to theism and more, this is a work of sheer brilliance.
A fitting finale to the Clifton Chronicles. The entire series gives an excellent perspective of the changing order of the world in terms of society’s basic characteristics – its behavior, consumption, worldview. This book is vintage Archer – good twists, and humaneness without over-dramatisation.
Rachel Joyce The book that I read just prior to this one was “Who’s in charge? Free Will & the Science of the Brain”. The author of that book summed it all up in the end when he said that beyond the machinations of the body and the brain that science has, or has the […]
Scott Hutchins As a character in the book asks, “What is love?” He proceeds to provide at least three alternatives to his own question – a biochemical emergent property of evolution? A social construct? Or just acquisition and deal making involving assets two people have? In ‘A Working Theory of Love’, Scott Hutchins takes a […]