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The Calculating Stars by Mary Robinette Kowal

5.0

This book is now only 99p on Amazon and I urge you to get it. Within the first dozen pages I knew I was going to devour the rest of it.

Broads in spaaaaaaaace! The sexist sensibilities of Don ... https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2019/09/book-review-the-calculating-stars-by-mary-robinette-kowal/

The Jennifer Morgue by Charles Stross

2.0

I met Stross in a crypt in London several years ago. He was unknown to me as an author, so I brashly asked him what he'd written. He politely told me "quite a lot" and he suggested I start with ... https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2019/06/review-the-jennifer-morgue/

84K by Claire North

4.0

I'm a tiny bit obsessed with Claire North's weird-fi writing and have hungrily devoured each of her previous works.

The premise for 84K is slightly... I don't know... juvenile? What if a big ... https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2019/05/review-84k-by-claire-north/

The Good Immigrant by Nikesh Shukla

4.0

I don't know how to review this book. Some of the essays are full of footnotes, others are a causal chat. Some are funny, some heartbreaking. All burn with (righteous) indignation.

Each one is ... https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2019/04/review-the-good-immigrant-nikesh-shukla/

The End of the Day by Claire North

5.0

This reads almost like poetry. I absolutely adored Claire North's debut novel "The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August" so I was keen to get cracking on this one.

A superb and surreal tale of ... https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2019/04/review-the-end-of-the-day-by-claire-north/

How Long 'til Black Future Month? by N.K. Jemisin

5.0

The preface of this book unreasonably annoyed me. It rails against the unjust nature of contemporary publishing, throws around industry-insider terms without explanation, and complains about the ... https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2019/04/book-review-how-long-til-black-future-month-n-k-jemisin/

Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup by John Carreyrou

4.0

Elizabeth Holmes is my hero. The next time I'm in a room full of Very Big And Important People, and I'm feeling out of my depth, I'll remember the story of the plucky heroine who conned her way ... https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2019/03/book-review-bad-blood/

Inferior: The true power of women and the science that shows it by Angela Saini

5.0

Women - they're like men, but worse. If we (rightly) assume man as the default, then women will always be sub-par. In fact, they only really evolved thanks to men. That's basically what science ... https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2019/03/book-review-inferior/

Hello World: How Algorithms will Define our Future and Why We Should Learn To Live With It by Hannah Fry

3.0

An all-too-brief journey through the problems with modern AI. If you've been paying attention to the trade-press, many of the stories here will be familiar to you. But I found a few which ... https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2019/02/book-review-hello-world/

Galileo's Daughter: A Historical Memoir of Science, Faith, and Love by Dava Sobel

4.0

This is a quick biography of Galileo's later years. The titular daughter, sadly, is only present in a few letters and - to my modern way of thinking - is an occasionally obsequious and somewhat ... https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2019/02/book-review-galileos-daughter/