Last year on Pajiba and/or CBR, I asked for fun sci-fi recommendations. Harry Harrison’s Bill, the Galactic Hero series was recommended by more than a couple folks. A quick “Harry Harrison” search on my Kindle revealed this book, instead of Bill. This book was free, so I downloaded it and soaked it up. Deathworld, despite the name, is a fun and thoughtful work of science fiction from the man who brought us Soylent Green. It combines the things that I love most about sci-fi: entertainment, […]
Would you lease your house to this species?
There are a lot of things going wrong in the world, but it is difficult to downplay the ecological crises we are currently witnessing. Repeated studies have been published describing a loss of biodiversity happening at a rate never seen before. Elizabeth Kolbert’s The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History describes the extinctions that are occurring around us in the context of five major extinctions in Earth’s history. Unlike so many books about environmental crises, Kolbert stays even-keeled, with a journalist’s approach to describing what, why, […]
How women’s rights will [help to] save the world
One day, that I can’t remember now, although I’m sure it involved procrastination of some sort, I stumbled upon Goodread’s list of Best Non-Fiction (non biography) books. I’m a fan of a good non-fiction book once in awhile, but I was still surprised by how many on the list that I’ve read and really enjoyed. When I saw Green Illusions (2012) by Ozzie Zehner, I was intrigued and a little wary: “We don’t have an energy crisis. We have a consumption crisis. And this book, […]
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