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Category: Books

Mind blown, thinking changed

In The Dawn of everything I found a great deal of food for my confirmation bias. This is often a … More

David Graeber, David Wengrow, The Dawn of Everything

Representing

This third and final part of Kim Stanley Robinson’s Science In The Capital series maintains the very consistent tone established … More

Kim Stanley Robinson, Science In The Capital, Sixty Days And Counting

Eating the world

Not many of us, I suspect, think of the British Empire much in terms of food. I certainly didn’t, before … More

Lizzie Collingham, The Hungry Empire

A shotgun blast of flawed brilliance

Seveneves is Neal Stephenson in his pomp. This book combines all his most splendid qualities as a writer: his febrile … More

Neal Stephenson, Seveneves

Necessary questions

Fifty Degrees Below takes over more or less exactly where Forty Signs Of Rain leaves off, but it shifts focus … More

Fifty Degrees Below, Kim Stanley Robinson, Science In The Capital

True history

This small book, published in 404 Ink’s ‘Inklings’ series, covers a subject close to my heart—since starting to listen heavily … More

Arusa Qureshi, Flip The Script

Founding a field

Finally, an academic has written a book about what I spend most of my time doing. Well, I say finally… … More

Building Imaginary Worlds, Mark J.P. Wolf, Subcreation

Deniable plausibility

I’ve been on a mission recently to catch up with the output of two of my favourite writers, Kim Stanley … More

Neal Stephenson, Termination Shock

Action stations

Kim Stanley Robinson keeps coming back to what might be described as ‘environmental fiction’, and ecological themes are never far … More

Forty Signs of Rain, Kim Stanley Robinson, Science In The Capital

A world of experience

I’m not too sure why it’s taken me so long to get around to reading Hilary Mantel’s novels about the … More

Hilary Mantel, Wolf Hall

History of tradition

I think I’ve burnt myself out on research now. There’s a lot more I could read to expand my thinking … More

Paul U. Unschuld, TCM, Traditional Chinese Medicine, Traditional Chinese Medicine: Heritage and Adaptation

An orrery of thought

Having finished reading Neal Stephenson’s epic historical trilogy The Baroque Cycle it’s quite hard, on reflection, to recall everything that’s … More

Neal Stephenson, The Baroque Cycle, The System Of The World

Putting medicine in its place

The historian Roy Porter was known during his lifetime as a ‘one-man book factory’, a prodigiously productive scholar who wrote … More

Roy Porter, The Greatest Benefit To Mankind

The last man who knew everything (about bread)

Mostly if I want to find out about something (I call it ‘research’ when I’m feeling self-important), I look on … More

A Treatise On The Art Of Bread-Making, A. Edlin, Abraham Edlin

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