Camera: Nikon N80
Film: expired Kodak Tri-X 400
Now the reviews are trickling in, and every reviewer highlights how exciting it is to find unknown myths about the well-known gods and heroes.
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(Still looking for an English language publisher, btw.)
#mythology #books #bookstodon #storytelling #writing #publishing
Born poor in colonial India and dead at 32, Ramanujan had fantastical, out-of-nowhere visions that continue to shape the field today.
By Jordana Cepelewicz via @QuantaMagazine
https://www.quantamagazine.org/srinivasa-ramanujan-was-a-genius-math-is-still-catching-up-20241021/
Attack Surface
by Cory Doctorow
Another book by the amazing Cory Doctorow ( @pluralistic), and one I enjoyed 1000% more than the pirate book that preceded it. I wasn't aware at the time of reading that this is the third in his Little Brother series, but I didn't find that this affected my enjoyment in any way. I suspect the series is a set of thematically-linked standalone novels, and will confirm this when I read numbers 1 and 2!
The book starts with Masha Maximow working in a not-real but very realistic former Eastern Bloc country for a cybersecurity firm with a back-of-the-alphabet-consonant-heavy name. She's dumped because her morals aren't aligning well with their interests, and she's spending too much time schooling activists in operational security, so she returns to her hometown of San Francisco... where she finds herself schooling activists in op-sec.
The book is very well and tightly plotted, flipping between the now and then, showing us present-day Masha threading the needle between duelling MIC juggernauts and the little people trying not to be squished by them, and past-tense Masha's rise from precocious hacker to cyber-warrior for the powers-that-be. There's the typical passages of Doctorow edutainment, where we learn all about cyberwar and self-defence as vastly knowledgeable people agree and disagree and counter-disagree on a wide variety of techy subjects.
I really enjoyed it, which isn't surprising, as 2024 is shaping up to be "The Year I Read Mostly Books From Cory Doctorow". It's a theme that will continue in Book 15 of my list!
(Oh, and you can get a copy at https://craphound.com/shop/)
#reading #reading2024 #books #bookreview #sciencefiction #cybersecurity #cyberpunk #technology #thriller
The Lost Cause
by Cory Doctorow
Continuing "The Year I Read Mostly Books From Cory Doctorow" ( @pluralistic), with a solarpunk novel in a near future that's lapping at our shores like climate-change-inducing rising waters: The Lost Cause.
What if things didn't quite work out, but weren't as bad as they could have been? Coastal cities are swamped, extreme weather events are frequent occurrences instead of 100-year events, and times are bleak. But what if instead of gnawing at each other like starving rats in a cage, we came together to work collectively to solve our problems and care for one another? Well, mostly what if we did that, because this book also features the pathetic remnants of today's most extant threat: The Magas.
The main character Brooks starts out being threatened by a Maga with an acid gun who is trying to smash up solar panels because... reasons. When his grandfather dies, leaving behind a house in Burbank - and an unexpected hidden cache - the Magas take note, making Brooks' efforts to help improve the city and assist climate refugees much more perilous than he expected. Throw in some musky tech-will-fix-it bros, and you've got a spicy tale.
One thing I found jarring was how nice Brooks' comrades are. Are we so jaded and messed up that a group of people that just want to help each other seem unrealistic? Probably. I guess if your biggest problem is that the characters care about each other and their world, then you don't really have a problem at all!
(Secure a copy at https://craphound.com/shop/)
#books #bookreview #solarpunk #reading #reading2024 #sciencefiction#SF #dystopia
https://eagleeyebooks.com/event/2024-10-23/cory-doctorow
I hope I can make it! Gotta wash up real quick after coaching soccer that afternoon.
💩 🐕
Rachel Carson's book Silent Spring is published, inspiring an environmental movement and the creation of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.
The book documented the environmental harm caused by the indiscriminate use of DDT, a pesticide used by soldiers during WW2. Carson accused the chemical industry of spreading disinformation, and public officials of accepting the industry's marketing claims unquestioningly.
Silent Spring (1962)
~Rachel Carson (27 May 1907 – 14 April 1964)
Rachel Carson's book Silent Spring is published, inspiring an environmental movement and the creation of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.
The book documented the environmental harm caused by the indiscriminate use of DDT, a pesticide used by soldiers during WW2. Carson accused the chemical industry of spreading disinformation, and public officials of accepting the industry's marketing claims unquestioningly.
Register for In-person or Online:
https://bpl.bibliocommons.com/events/66cf2d8bf520192f005fcc50
Tuesday, September 24, 2024
6:00 PM – 7:30 PM
BPL Central Library (Copley Square)
„Walkaway“ von Cory Doctorow @pluralistic
https://solar-punk.org/2024/08/20/walkaway-von-cory-doctorow/
Eine spannende Vision eines selbstverwalteten Netzwerks von Aussteiger:innen, die in High-Tech-Kommunen eine Alternative zum kapitalistischen Mainstream aufbauen.
(und ein Erklärungsversuch zum revolutionären Potenzial von #3DDruck ) 😀
Shamelessly.
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/6677511574
#sf #sciencefiction #fantasy #sciencefantasy #comics #superheros #keanureeves#brzrkr #books #bookstodon @bookstodon
In the US, the more people there are with library cards, the more funding libraries have access to.
Libraries provide more than books. They are a community resource.
As an author and reader, I support libraries!
