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| May be Al Reynold's best book yet. I can't put a finger on it just yet but the combination of worldbuilding, characters, and the story just clicked and this book worked for me. | |
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| A fun book, covering the life cycle, behavior, and intelligence of octopuses and related cephalopods. The three authors are scientists who've all worked with marine animals during their careers, and consequently there's a wealth of hands-on informati...more | |
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| Nick Humphrey's take on the origins and role of consciousness in humans and other animals, of interest to anyone with an appetite for contemporary philosophy of mind, in particular the relationship between the internal world of mental experience and ...more | |
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| A depressing but optimistic dystopian story. I enjoyed the biotech-gone-wild aspect in a Mad Max post-collapse America. | |
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| I suppose this is a decent enough starting point but this is some dense conceptual material. I came away scratching my head, which is probably more due to the subject matter than the presentation of it. | |
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Had good parts, had some bad parts in that way that only kooky science fiction writers can be bad. I liked the main character for the super-smart redneck that he was, but I'm not sure what I think about the story as a standalone. This is supposed to b...more |
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