I wasn’t paying much attention to the news this week. Instead here’s some books that I’ve read and liked since I quite reviewing books. I recommend them all.
Sewer, Gas and Electric: The Public Works Trilogy by Matt Ruff: A satire of Atlas Shrugged. It’s really funny but I think you may need to know Rand to get the most out of it.
Altered Carbon by Richard Morgan: A hardboiled, murder mystery set about 500 years in the future. Lots of killing, cool techs – what more do you want?
The Futurological Congress by Stanislaw Lem: Like Phillip K. Dick except, I’d say, better.
Lust by Geoff Ryman: It’s all about sex and it’s good anyway.
Spycatcher: The Candid Autobiography of a Senior Intelligence Officer by Peter Wright: A lot of fun just for the info about MI-5 and the Soviets but also for lines like this: “There was just a trace of socialism about Hanley, which showed itself in utterances about achieving the job on his merits, not through the old boy network.”
