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What did you make of this one? I've read a few of Zeh's - Gaming Instinct and Dark Matter - and really liked them, so I've been eyeing The Method for a while, even though some people say it's a bit too preachy for its own good.

Don't know if I'd call myself a fan, but I've really loved a couple of books of his. (We already have a slightly misplaced thread on him here, mods are free to move it to this one...) I've yet to dig into his pre-90s work, should have more time for that now that he's officially retired, but...

I haven't read it, but I've heard very good things about Siddhartha Mukherjee's The Emperor Of All Maladies: Guardian First Book award shortlist: Siddhartha Mukherjee | Books | The Guardian

Amatka, the debut novel by Swedish writer Karin Tidbeck. Her short story collection Jagannath has been praised by people like China Mieville and Ursula LeGuin, and I can see why; short and bare-bones, trying for (and mostly achieving) a balance somewhere between subversive Soviet science fiction...

And now Austin is seceding from Texas secessionists so they don't have to secede.

Yup, thanks! Now I just need to figure out what to send...

A Czech friend of mine described the dissolution of Czechoslovakia back in the early 90s thusly: SLOVAK FARMERS: Democracy sucks. Why should the Czechs get to run things just because there's more of them and they have all the modern factories and send us a lot of money? CZECHS IN ARMANI SUITS...

...bacon

Well, it worked so well last time they tried it. I liked this comment. But fess up, you're just worried about Tea Partiers moving to Canada, aren't you? :p

Well, as far as I can tell about half of those titles are thrillers, war stories or comedies, so I'm not sure how snobbish it is - Amazon's goal is to sell books, after all. I've heard good things about Gone Girl and The Fault In Our Stars, though not enough to pick them up. Most of the rest...

That was actually discussed in the book I finished this weekend (The Eerie Silence by Paul Davies - see non-fiction forum), where he seemed to argue that it was more or less inevitable; we're already using highly functional prostheses today. Once we figure out how to upload a consciousness...

Of course, the commercial for the Beagle makes me want to stomp on one, but that's the case with most e-reader commercials anyway. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kOQeg-OPVMQ Oh, and it's not the smallest e-reader in the world either, that would be the Trekstor Pyrus Mini.

Heard about it, talked to them about it, played around with it. As e-readers go it's very bare-bones - not only can't you store books on it*, but you can't really do much with them once they're on the device; can't change text size, can't make notes, can't search within the book, etc. That said...

I have a trusty ol' Sony PRS-350 that's served me well for a few years now. I'm looking to upgrade before it falls apart on me, probably to a Kobo Glo if I can get my hands on one (and if it's not too big - I like that I can fit my Sony, with cover, in my coat pocket).

In Amatka. I just forgot to remember that my suitcase is a suitcase, and so now it's no longer a suitcase. Fungus all over my floor. Ewwww.

'50 Shades of Grey' Fan Divorcing Husband After He Refuses to Re-Create Scenes From Book (Report) - The Hollywood Reporter

Amazon Freaks Out About Sock Puppet Reviews And Deletes A Bunch Of Real Reviews | Techdirt

Meanwhile, here's good ol' Ryan Air calling in the cops to have a woman thrown off a plane for having a book that didn't fit in her one allowed carry-on luggage. At least they don't discriminate against any specific titles, I guess. Ryanair order Spanish police to remove woman from a flight -...

Paul Davies: The Eerie Silence: Renewing Our Search For Alien Intelligence (2010) In 2010, the SETI - Search for Extra-Terrestrial Intelligence - initiative celebrated its 50th anniversary. And so physicist/cosmologist/astrobiologist Paul Davies was asked to write something. Rather than just...