Recent Books -- Chip War, Morning After the Revolution, A City on Mars, Zero Days, X
31 December 2024
- Chip War by Chris Miller. This was ok, a lot of history I already knew. A good summary if you want to catxh up with the industry.
- Morning After the Revolution by Nellie Bowles. Hilarious and sad, Bowles rips apart the worst excesses of the progressive movement.
- A City on Mars: Can We Settle Space, Should We Settle Space, and Have We Really Thought This Through? by Kelly and Zach Weinersmith. What a strange book – who is this book for? The authors are trying for cute I guess, but come across as condescending. There is a good list here of hard issues around space travel. And it is certainly going to take a long time to figure out all these issues. But these authors write like we shouldn’t even try. I couldn’t finish it.
- Zero Days by Ruth Ware. I needed a thriller, this one was dumb. I get annoyed when clearly smart characters act repeatedly in dumb ways to advance the plot. I don’t know why I finished it.
- Biography of X by Catherine Lacey. Finishing the year on a strange one. A widow digs into the multiple identities of her deceased wife, and it is never quite clear who her wife really was or who the widow is.
