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Some of those I'm just holding onto because I haven't got to them yet, but many I'm holding onto because I just can't let them go.
I cannot understate how much I enjoy Zahn, btw. Deep cuts like Triplet, or Spinneret if I ever track down a cheap paperback copy. And I'm really due for a reread of Quadrail.
But in the meantime I should probably can it and get back to Dune Messiah.
Had to rearrange my shelves today, needed to prune some books. Some of the authors I'm keeping:
- Timothy Zahn (huge Zahn-head here)
- Jim Butcher
- John Scalzi
- Frank Herbert
- Charles Stross
- Robert Asprin
- Larry Niven
- Arthur C Clark
- Stephen Baxter
- Terry Pratchett
- Orson Scott Card
- Brandon Sanderson
- Piers Anthony
- Neil Stephenson
- William Gibson
- Isaac Asimov
- David Weber
- David Mack
- Robert J Sawyer
- Greg Bear
- Ben Bova
Pruning soon:
- Terry Goodkind
- Terry Brooks
La Vie en Rose
The Pink Airplane
I've told that one before, right?
The industry purpose of people like Jack Dorsey is to serve as a sort of ignorance canary, providing worked examples of the dumbest possible approach that could still work. He fails, but then the worst people in the world calibrate their businesses for Dorsey-minus-10% and are confident of success.
He’s not getting interviews because he’s succeeding. He’s in the news because he’s at the extreme bleeding edge of dumb shit, and right or wrong, extreme bleeding edge gets the clicks.
My most murderously unpopular industry opinion is that we do not understand the roles of fools and jesters like Dorsey and Musk, and consequently we do not understand why the market seems to value them so irrationally highly. It leaves us nerds out of step.
(hat tip to @skinnylatte whose recent posts have helped me to understand this much more clearly.)
Rob Isaac
Charlie Stross