With the fall equinox, summer is now over.
This blog has passed 2800 daily posts in a row, though reported hits are way down from last year. Posts will continue until readership improves. : – )
This summer saw many posts on favorite topics, including dinosaurs, robots, solar energy, and cryptocurrencies. And robot helicopters on Mars. And the melting cryosphere.
If we hear about a solar powered robot dinosaur that eats cryptocurrency you know it will appear in this blog! Especially if it emerges from a melting icecap and goes to Mars to transform into a helicopter.
Book Reviews
As always, weekly reviews of 14 fiction and 6 non fiction books.
Notable book: The Amazons by Adrienne Mayor
Fiction
Antkind by Charlie Kaufman
The World Gives Way by Marissa Levien
The Very Nice Box by Laura Blackett and Eve Gleichman
Trouble the Saints by Alaya Dawn Johnson
Captain Moxley and the Embers of Empire by Dan Hanks
The Paris Labyrinth by Gilles Legardinier
The Other Black Girl by Zakiya Dalila Harris
Questland by Carrie Vaughn
The Past is Red by Catherynne M. Valente
Revelation Space by Alastair Reynolds
Elysium Fire by Alistair Reynolds
The Invention of Sound by Chuck Palahniuk
Malibu Rising by Taylor Jenkins Reid
The Beautiful Ones by Silvia Moreno-Garcia
Non-fiction
The Amazons by Adrienne Mayor
Area 51 by Annie Jacobsen
Venus and Aphrodite by Bettany Hughes
Forget the Alamo by Bryan Burrough, Chris Tomlinson, and Jason Stanford
We Had A Little Real Estate Problem by Kliph Nesteroff
Pastels and Pedophiles by Mia Bloom and Sophia Moskalenko
Great Names For a Band
Terms found in real technical papers, not made up at all.
“Spin Orbit Torques”
“Cadmium Telluride”
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