Utility by Jack Nicholls - fun sci fi short in which a super powerful future human tries very hard to impress and reassure a 21st century human
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Each year from 2014 to 2114, a manuscript is sealed in The Silent Room of Norway's Future Library – the goal: greater hope for humankind
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Lisica - Weekly episodes of a scientist soap opera
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Overtime — Charles Stross [A Christmas Story]
11 votes -
Fifty-five books Scientific American recommends in 2023
12 votes -
Why books donʼt work
22 votes -
My doomed career as a North Korean novelist
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The Norway model: How the Scandinavian country became a literary powerhouse
8 votes -
Our favorite outdoor adventure books for every US state
8 votes -
Review: The Man Who Rode the Thunder, by William H. Rankin
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All of this year’s National Book Award finalists, reviewed by Vox
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Blood Music (1983)
7 votes -
Review, commentary, analysis based on four books featuring the history and misuse of statistical data
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Book review: The Educated Mind
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Josh Cook on the uses and misuses of judgement about literary quality and reflections about the process of suggesting books
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The cost to librarians and libraries from the US culture wars
22 votes -
Brandon Sanderson is your god
16 votes -
Where be your jibes now?
6 votes -
The first chapter of The Ministry for the Future
12 votes -
Dani Garavelli on the trials for the murder of Nikki Allan
4 votes -
Leo Tolstoy on finding meaning in a meaningless world
10 votes -
2023 Library Systems Report | The advance of open source systems
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Borges and $: The parable of the literary master and the coin
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Turing test
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“Balkan Cosmology” by Bruce Sterling
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The Siege of Gondor, Part I: Professionals talk logistics
4 votes -
The real nature of Thomas Edison’s genius
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‘The Book of Disquiet’ is the weirdest autobiography ever
5 votes -
The enduring allure of Choose Your Own Adventure books
7 votes -
The Last Question - Isaac Asimov (1956)
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Book review: The Dawn Of Everything
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Idol words
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The Billionaire’s Bard: On the rationalist fictions of Neal Stephenson
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The Talented Mr. Bernardini - A young Italian is accused of pulling off the book world’s most perplexing crime. Who is he?
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Something in the Air - an ode to radio
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Mel Brooks writes it all down - The comedian will publish his memoirs at the age of ninety-five, and is at work on “History of the World, Part II”
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To break a book: Bibliophiles as book enemies
4 votes -
Did Twitter break young adult fiction?
10 votes -
The protagonist problem
13 votes -
Building a galaxy: The story of the Star Wars Expanded Universe
5 votes -
Notes from "Don't Shoot the Dog"
4 votes -
What happened to Jordan Peterson?
16 votes -
Pippi and the Moomins - the antics in postwar Nordic children’s books left propaganda and prudery behind. We need this madcap spirit more than ever.
15 votes -
The Revolutionary Thoreau
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The inside story of the 25-year, $8 million heist of maps, books, and artwork from Pittsburgh's Carnegie Library
5 votes -
The enduring, pernicious whiteness of true crime
5 votes -
Insane after coronavirus?
6 votes -
Manna, by Marshall Brain
Chapter 1 Chapter 2 Chapter 3 Chapter 4 Chapter 5 Chapter 6 Chapter 7 Chapter 8
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The weight of James Arthur Baldwin
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"Pursuit as Happiness", a previously unpublished short story by Ernest Hemingway
5 votes