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[Cryxis, Prince of Doom]

On page (87?) of Ferengheight 451
(I can't spell and it's a word spell check doesn't know aparently)

[Arcvasti]

On page (87?) of Ferengheight 451
(I can't spell and it's a word spell check doesn't know aparently)

I didn't mind that one. Somewhat anvilicious, but its what you expect from dystopians of that time period. I'm also glad spell check abhors Fahrenheit as much as I do. For bonus points, reread the beginning sentence of the book after you finish the book. New applicability.

[WordsandChaos]

Information and the Nature of Reality: From Physics to Metaphysics by various authors ediited by Paul Davies and Niels Henrik Gregersen.

Lacking a degree in physics, or even a vaguelly competent grasp of mathematics beyond counting on my fingers, so I'm having to branch off and research some of the terms and ideas that the various essays throw around like it's the boss' birthday at rhe confetti factory. Flat 3D space? It's a thing. I'm better at understanding the less science-specific stuff right off the bat, but I still find all the physics and so on incredibly interesting.

[Spehss _]

Age of the Spiritual Machine by Ray Kurzweil.

Book written in 1998 predicting the future of artificial intelligence and other general advances in the 21 century. It had some interesting stuff on AI algorithms and scientific experiments, as well as some stuff on Moore's Law and the "Law of Accelerating Returns". And it also has a lot of...not sciency silly predictions. Some of the stuff I admit sounds cool, and some of it is just absurd.

Was fun to read various predictions and see how they've come true 17 years later.

Also reading How Machines Think by Nigel Ford and The Dialogues of Plato by, well, Plato.

[Zrk2]

Onto The Way of Kings, by Brandon Sanderson, now. Really good so far. Very interesting world, too.

[Parsely]

I'm reading the memoirs of a Napoleonic soldier/leader/baron, and also an account of what it's like being at sea on a Navy ship.

[Devastator]

The Name of the Wind by patrick rothfuss.. for about my sixth time.

Simply amazing stuff.

[Yoink]

I'm reading a book about smoking opium in India.
It's called Narcopolis. 

[miauw62]

Currently reading Neuromancer, and it's pretty gud. The lack of explanations for terms is pretty jarring, but I don't actually mind it that much (I bet it was twenty times as jarring thirty years ago)

[NJW2000]

Neuromancer? Wish I had read it before I saw the Matrix films XD. Inspired most of our virtual reality ideas today. DId Gibson write "Virtual Light", or was that someone else?

[Remuthra]

On page (87?) of Ferengheight 451
(I can't spell and it's a word spell check doesn't know aparently)

Fahrenheit.

[Jeshin]

I'm re-reading Sacre Bleu by Christopher Moore and I'm planning on ordering The Expanse by R.A. something or other. Space novel.

[Emma]

I finished The Help a few days ago then I bought Steelheart and read that both excellent books although Steelheart was a little short.

[Arcvasti]

Yeah, I liked Steelheart. Currently reading Gardens of the Moon in the Malazan Books of the Fallen. So far, I am liking it.

[Zrk2]

Yeah, I liked Steelheart. Currently reading Gardens of the Moon in the Malazan Books of the Fallen. So far, I am liking it.

And we've assimilated another one. You're in for a good time.