Belated Books
Aug. 30th, 2010 08:52 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
forsythUnseen Academicals - Terry Prachett
Jennifer Morgue - Charles Stross
The Truth about Organic Gardening - Jeff Gillman
Carrots Love Tomatoes - Louise Riotte
1635: The Dreeson Incident - Eric Flint, Virginia Demarce
Natural Capitalism - Paul Hawken, Amory Lovins, and L. Hunter Lovins
Spook Country - William Gibson
Beginnings, Blunders, and Breakthroughs in Science - Surendra Verma
Why Beautiful People Have More Daughters - Alan S. Miller & Satoshi Kanazawa
The Elements of Moral Philosophy - James Rachels & Stuart Rachels
His Majesty's Dragon - Naomi Novik
Consilience - Edward O. Wilson
Space on Earth: Saving Our World by Seeking Others - Charles S. Cockell
Fundamentals of Hazardous Waste Site Remediation - Kathleen Sellers
After the King: Stories in Honor of J.R.R. Tolkien - Various Authors
A Beautiful Math: John Nash, Game Theory, and the Modern Quest for a Code of Nature - Tom Siegfried
Billy Boyle: A World War II Mystery - James R. Benn
I haven't commented on too many of the books I've read since that'd get too long, but I do have a few comments this time. First, the short stories in After the King are really quite good, my favorites in many ways are the fairy tale style ones. "Silver or Gold" by Emma Bull, "Reave the Just" by Stephen R. Donaldson, and "The Fellowship of the Dragon" by Patricia A. McKillip are three that stood out the most for me. And of course Terry Pratchett's "Troll Bridge". There's a couple that aren't so good, but that's the deal with short story collections.
As for the Game Theory book, he spends a good bit of one chapter talking about game theory and economics, including the physicists who ended up going to Wall Street and applying somewhat similar theories from thermodynamics etc. to make themselves lots of money, rather than going into science. In retrospect, considering how those very same 'innovations' just siphoned off money and helped crash the economy, that calls into question the rest of its conclusions, I think.
Jennifer Morgue - Charles Stross
The Truth about Organic Gardening - Jeff Gillman
Carrots Love Tomatoes - Louise Riotte
1635: The Dreeson Incident - Eric Flint, Virginia Demarce
Natural Capitalism - Paul Hawken, Amory Lovins, and L. Hunter Lovins
Spook Country - William Gibson
Beginnings, Blunders, and Breakthroughs in Science - Surendra Verma
Why Beautiful People Have More Daughters - Alan S. Miller & Satoshi Kanazawa
The Elements of Moral Philosophy - James Rachels & Stuart Rachels
His Majesty's Dragon - Naomi Novik
Consilience - Edward O. Wilson
Space on Earth: Saving Our World by Seeking Others - Charles S. Cockell
Fundamentals of Hazardous Waste Site Remediation - Kathleen Sellers
After the King: Stories in Honor of J.R.R. Tolkien - Various Authors
A Beautiful Math: John Nash, Game Theory, and the Modern Quest for a Code of Nature - Tom Siegfried
Billy Boyle: A World War II Mystery - James R. Benn
I haven't commented on too many of the books I've read since that'd get too long, but I do have a few comments this time. First, the short stories in After the King are really quite good, my favorites in many ways are the fairy tale style ones. "Silver or Gold" by Emma Bull, "Reave the Just" by Stephen R. Donaldson, and "The Fellowship of the Dragon" by Patricia A. McKillip are three that stood out the most for me. And of course Terry Pratchett's "Troll Bridge". There's a couple that aren't so good, but that's the deal with short story collections.
As for the Game Theory book, he spends a good bit of one chapter talking about game theory and economics, including the physicists who ended up going to Wall Street and applying somewhat similar theories from thermodynamics etc. to make themselves lots of money, rather than going into science. In retrospect, considering how those very same 'innovations' just siphoned off money and helped crash the economy, that calls into question the rest of its conclusions, I think.
