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Bill DeSmedt has spent his life living by his wits and his words. In his time, and as the spirit has moved him, he’s been: a Soviet Area expert and Soviet exchange student, a computer programmer and system designer, a consultant to startups and the Fortune 500, an Artificial Intelligence researcher, an omnivorous reader with a soft spot for science fiction and science non-fiction, and now, Lord help us, a novelist!

Bill's first novel, Singularity, won Foreword Magazine's Book of the Year Award for Science Fiction and the Independent Publisher Group's IPPY for Best Science Fiction. The free podcast of Singularity, available on the web at Podiobooks.com, has gone on to be named an SFFaudio Essential, while Bill himself has gone on to writing a...more


Average rating: 3.95 · 170 ratings · 28 reviews · 2 distinct works
Singularity
3.93 of 5 stars 393 avg rating — 168 ratings — published 2004 — 2 editions
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5.0 of 5 stars 500 avg rating — 1 rating — published 2011
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The Tunguska Event (Science Fiction & Fantasy)
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Description: Prologue to SINGULARITY
Why Does E=mc²?
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The God Delusion
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by Richard Dawkins (Goodreads Author)
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Galileo by John L. Heilbron
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Immense in erudition, but the tone is grating throughout. Heilbron, perhaps on the model of Ariosto's Orlando Furioso, aims at irony, but mostly succeeds in sounding jaundiced. One happy exception the comment on how perilious life in Pisa must have b...more
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Galileo by James Reston, Jr.
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Lively and fast-moving, albeit riddled by glaring inaccuracies. One small but telling error: the misinterpretation of Galileo's attitude toward Tasso's poetry, and the misquotation in support of it (p. 42).
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Why Does E=mc²? by Brian Cox
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The Wolf in the Parlor by Jon Franklin
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Human-canine symbiosis? I'm afraid Jon didn't quite sell me. His thesis would have made for a great 50-page essay; at 274 pages, it's a bit much.
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"I suspect Richardson himself would claim that it is not individual Muslims he hates, but their religion. A distinction that, admittedly, doesn't cut m...more "
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The Hidden Pattern by Ben Goertzel
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Stalking the Riemann Hypothesis by Dan Rockmore
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