New Paul McAuley "In the mouth of the whale' just started and looking very promising!
I finished Connie Willis's "Blackout" and "All Clear". Many page turning moments causing sleep deprived late nights. Great twists and emotional connections with characters and Blitz-era London. Made me feel like I was really there. Also, nice treatment of time travel paradoxes like one person being in the same time twice, and convoluted temporal effects. Very emotional read.
If you like immersive historic fiction mixed with sci-fi (as I do), plus time travel and its ability to change the past to affect the outcome of important events like WWII, this an absolute must read. Don't pass it by!
I'm currently reading the Bas Lag "series" by China Mieville, 3 sci-fi/phantasy novels set in the same world, but still largely independent. Finished Perdido Street Station which now is one of my absolute favourites. I am currently 1/3 into The Scar, the second book in the series. Not quite up there with PSS so far, but still a very good read.
What I like about him is his imagination, the world is very rich with lots of interesting things, interesting aliens and humans, science and magic, artificially modified peopel and in PSS a couple of very nasty creatures. And a confusing giant spideroid.
pibbur who with 3 posts on 3 different threads within a very short period feels like he's spamming the watch
The course about hooliganism blends many phenomenons like local patriotism, masculinity, aggression, groupthink, riots etc of which all is related to social psychology. It's just interesting that I never saw a football match in my life and still decided to take the course.
Boys’ brains are being digitally rewired for change, novelty, excitement and constant arousal. That means they’re totally out of sync in traditional classes, which are analog, static, interactively passive.” (Philip Zimbardo)
Finished. It was a nice diversion, a relatively short novella. I recommend it to anyone who liked the Mistborn trilogy.Next up is Sanderson's The Alloy of Law, a stand-alone volume following the Mistborn Trilogy that takes place 300 years later in a Wild West sort of era. Should be interesting!