The Martians - The Hermetic Library Blog
Hermetic Library Fellow T Polyphilus reviews The Martians [Amazon, Bookshop, Publisher, Local Library] by Kim Stanley Robinson, related to the Mars Trilogy series. It had been almost a decade since I read Kim Stanley Robinson’s Mars trilogy when I finally picked up the following book The Martians. It contains a quote from Ray Bradbury’s Martian […]
Cryptonomicon - The Hermetic Library Blog
Hermetic Library Fellow T Polyphilus reviews Cryptonomicon [Amazon, Bookshop, Publisher, Local Library] by Neal Stephenson Cryptonomicon is mostly spent see-sawing across a half-century divide of two generations between World War II and the late 1990s. Its central topic is cryptology, and it was written written when one could still be idealistic about cryptocurrency. It is […]
“This is America. People do whatever the fuck they feel like doing, you got a problem with that? Because they have a right to. And because they have guns and no one can fucking stop them. As a result, this country has one of the worst economies in the world.”
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"This is America. People do whatever the fuck they feel like doing, you got a problem with that? Because they have a right to. And because they have guns and no one can fucking stop them. As a result, this country has one of the worst economies in the world." - The Hermetic Library Blog
This is America. People do whatever the fuck they feel like doing, you got a problem with that? Because they have a right to. And because they have guns and no one can fucking stop them. As a result, this country has one of the worst economies in the world. Neal Stephenson, Snow Crash: A […]
A Deepness in the Sky - The Hermetic Library Blog
Hermetic Library Fellow T Polyphilus reviews A Deepness in the Sky [Amazon, Bookshop, Libro.fm, Publisher, Local Library] by Vernor Vinge, book 2 of the Zones of Thought series. I am reading Vernor Vinge’s Zones of Thought novels in publication order. This second book is set earlier than the first. It does not engage the “Zonological” […]
Blue Mars - The Hermetic Library Blog
Hermetic Library Fellow T Polyphilus reviews Blue Mars [Amazon, Bookshop, Libro.fm, Publisher, Local Library] by Kim Stanley Robinson, part of the Mars Trilogy Since Blue Mars is the third volume of a trilogy, I’ll start with some remarks about the whole set, now that I have it in complete view. These books are an account of the settlement and […]
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