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What are you reading these days?
What are you reading currently? Fiction or non-fiction or poetry, any genre, any language! Tell us what you're reading, and talk about it a bit.
What are you reading currently? Fiction or non-fiction or poetry, any genre, any language! Tell us what you're reading, and talk about it a bit.
I've been reading a lot of Peter Watts, a former biologist known for philosophical diamond-hard sci-fi that explores topics such as the nature of consciousness.
One of my favorite short stories, even if it's a bit off to the side of Watts' oeuvre (The Rifters trilogy, Blindsight/Echopraxia, and the Sunflowers Cycle), is The Second Coming of Jasmine Fitzgerald, which is about a physicist who kills her husband while trying to save him from cancer. It reminds me a bit of a harder-edged Anathem (by Neal Stephenson) in its use of quantum mechanics and exploration of the nature of reality. It's also more hopeful than a lot of his work, odd as that might sound.
I just finished “Generation Kill” and am now working through “One Bullet Away” written by an officer involved on the same mission. Fascinating stuff, it’s really cool to see the same mission from the invasion of Iraq from two separate perspectives.