Sourdough by Robin Sloan
Lois Clary is a software engineer at General Dexterity, a San Francisco robotics company with world-changing ambitions. She codes all …
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Sourdough by Robin Sloan
Lois Clary is a software engineer at General Dexterity, a San Francisco robotics company with world-changing ambitions. She codes all …
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Sam quoted Matter by Iain M. Banks (Culture, #8)
A temple was worth a dozen barracks; a militia man carrying a gun could control a small unarmed crowd only for as long as he was present; however, a single priest could put a policeman inside the head of every one of their flock, for ever.
— Matter by Iain M. Banks, Iain Banks (Culture, #8)
Sam rated Automatic Noodle: 3 stars
Automatic Noodle by Annalee Newitz (duplicate)
From sci-fi visionary and acclaimed author Annalee Newitz comes Automatic Noodle, a cozy near-future novella about a crew of abandoned …
Sam finished reading Automatic Noodle by Annalee Newitz (duplicate)
Automatic Noodle by Annalee Newitz (duplicate)
From sci-fi visionary and acclaimed author Annalee Newitz comes Automatic Noodle, a cozy near-future novella about a crew of abandoned …
Sam started reading Automatic Noodle by Annalee Newitz (duplicate)
Automatic Noodle by Annalee Newitz (duplicate)
From sci-fi visionary and acclaimed author Annalee Newitz comes Automatic Noodle, a cozy near-future novella about a crew of abandoned …
Sam finished reading The Hydrogen Sonata by Iain M. Banks (Culture, #10)
The Hydrogen Sonata by Iain M. Banks (Culture, #10)
The Scavenger species are circling. It is, truly, the End Days for the Gzilt civilization. An ancient people, organized on …
Sam quoted The Hydrogen Sonata by Iain M. Banks (Culture, #10)
The Scavenger species are circling. It is, truly, the End Days for the Gzilt civilization. …
If you wanted to feel you were still somehow in control of a ship or a fleet or even your civilisation, talking amongst yourselves seemed to be the way you convinced yourself of it.
— The Hydrogen Sonata by Iain M. Banks (Culture, #10)
Sam quoted The Hydrogen Sonata by Iain M. Banks (Culture, #10)
The Scavenger species are circling. It is, truly, the End Days for the Gzilt civilization. …
The ship was aware that, however splendid, intellectually refined and marvellous it might be (and it was very much of the opinion that it was all of those things, and more), it would likely still only ever measure its age in thousands of years, and for all the star’s monotonous lifelessness and sterility, it would still be here when it, the ship Mistake Not …, had gone.
— The Hydrogen Sonata by Iain M. Banks (Culture, #10)
Sam wants to read Perdido Street Station by China Miéville
Perdido Street Station by China Miéville
Beneath the towering bleached ribs of a dead, ancient beast lies New Crobuzon, a squalid city where humans, Re-mades, and …
Sam wants to read A Fire Upon The Deep by Vernor Vinge (Zones of Thought, #1)
A Fire Upon The Deep by Vernor Vinge (Zones of Thought, #1)
Thousands of years in the future, humanity is no longer alone in a universe where a mind's potential is determined …
Sam wants to read House of Suns by Alastair Reynolds
House of Suns by Alastair Reynolds
Six million years ago, at the dawn of the star-faring era, Abigail Gentian fractured herself into a thousand male and …
Sam started reading The Hydrogen Sonata by Iain M. Banks (Culture, #10)
The Hydrogen Sonata by Iain M. Banks (Culture, #10)
The Scavenger species are circling. It is, truly, the End Days for the Gzilt civilization. An ancient people, organized on …
Sam rated Surface detail: 4 stars
Surface detail by Iain M. Banks (Culture, #9)
It begins in the realm of the Real, where matter still matters.
It begins with a murder.
And …
Sam finished reading Surface detail by Iain M. Banks (Culture, #9)
Surface detail by Iain M. Banks (Culture, #9)
It begins in the realm of the Real, where matter still matters.
It begins with a murder.
And …