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This book was both a hoot and thought provoking. Reminded me a little bit of the Tin Drum, featuring an outcast narrator who is also witty, who is on the losing side of a war and is forced to flee his country, and ends up writing his memoir (the novel) while incarcerated.
Still one of my favourite fantasy series. I like how Martin uses fantasy to write about authority, identity, the ideas of barbarism vs civilization, and more!
A good story, with an intriguing imagined world. Used many tropes and plot devices, but I liked the story enough that none of it mattered to me. Uprooted resonated more with me than the Temeraire books for some reason. Maybe it's because it reminded me of playing Kingsburg.
Goes into John Lewis's background before his role in the historic march across the Pettus Bridge in Selma.
a good introductory conceptual explanation of how the internet works.
While I was less interested in the essays about Dallas and about Gettysburg, the rest were great! I especially liked the ones about St. Louis and its forgotten Worlds Fair (and Olympic Games), about the Bakken oil rush, about nuclear weapons, and about the southern California doomsday bunker business.
A very helpful book full of real facts about real robots, and how to defeat fictionalized ones (that are evil). Pairs well with Saberhagen's Berserker stories, or Gregory Benford's Great Sky River.
Introspective essays that touch on TV's formative influence on the pre-internet generations. I was amused that the only essay about a show that the writer hated was the one about Dawson's Creek. This makes me want to write my own personal essay about TV growing up!