Category Archives: books

TV, turds, books, etc.

Siracusa recently wrote some stuff about books[1]. I personally like books a lot[2]. And conceptually (though not so much yet in practice), I like ebooks even more.
Last year, Amazon tried to reboot (by which I mean boot) the ebook revolution with the Kindle. Unfortunately, though, the Kindle is a foul turd[3].
But turds, albeit stinky [...]

Green Mars, Blue Mars

So, Green Mars and Blue Mars turned out to be just as good as Red Mars, which is quite an impressive fucking feat. All told, one thousand four hundred sixteen pages of awesome.
I think Green Mars might be the best of the three.
One big reason is by the time you read Green, you are [...]

Red Mars

Incredibly good book. The deep, long, and plausible plot propels the finely sculpted characters through their decades-long effort to settle Mars. I haven’t enjoyed a book this much in years; probably since reading Neuromancer as a teenager.