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Tim Flannery tonight!
Last night I went to the launch of Ryan Heath's book Please Just Fuck Off, It's Our Turn Now (Holding Baby Boomers to Account) at Australia House. Quite a fun evening, and the debate was quite entertaining and thought provoking.
While there, I discovered that Greatest Working Australian Tim Flannery is in town promoting his latest book, The Weather Makers, which is all about climate change.
The event is on at The Menzies Centre at 18:00. Not sure I'll be able to make it as I'm getting a vaccine in Victoria at 17:30, but I'm gonna try.
10 Mar 2006 19:45 [category: /books] #
Snow Crash, again
I'm out of books (read all the ones I bought off Amazon with my xmas gift voucher) and am back to reading the excellent Snow Crash yet again. Loving it, but I'd like to discover something written this decade that is as ground breaking and exciting.
Suggestions?
25 Feb 2005 23:04 [category: /books] #
Stamping Butterflies
I really like Jon Courtenay Grimwood's books. He writes science fiction that tends to be based in North Africa, with all the flavour you would expect from that.
This, his latest, is a bit more sedate than his previous high-tension rollercoasters, but is beautiful and intricate. It's less science fiction than previously, but still delightfully weird. Quite enjoyed it.
Available for a loan if you can get it off me.
29 Jan 2005 01:39 [category: /books] #
pred.txt arrived
I just got my copy of pred.txt, the book form of the collected writings and rantings by pivotal C@talyst hardware geek <predator> who died this year and will be sorely missed. The book collects his various text files, long email diatribes and the like for easy reading.
<pred> was always vehemently pro-text and pro-freedom so the book is a great tribute to the man and his philosophy on life. But it still seems a bit weird reading someone not-necessarily-intended-for-public-consumption writings. That said, I'm quite looking forward to plowing through the very articulate and generally very entertaining words of the man.
<pred>, we miss you.
31 Dec 2004 21:59 [category: /books] #
Omega by Jack McDevitt
Just finished his book. It's a great sci-fi novel in the post-space opera vein. The story is quite understated, but involving. Drags you in but isn't an adrenaline rush.
Basic story is this: A future Earth is threatened by giant nanobot clouds that will reach us in 20,000 years and appear to target objects made by intelligent races. While investigating the origins and nature of these giant clouds, scientists discover an inhabited world that will shortly be hit by the devastating clouds.
I'm not keen on series-type books, but this works well as a standalone book. It's also part of a loose series, which I'll start trawling through shortly.
