on 2/3/01 4:40 AM, Kevin Tarr at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>> Kevin wrote:
>
> (Not me, hehe)
>>
>> << Now there's a thought! Let's start a thread about what Brin-Lers are
> reading! Right now I've got a bunch of books backed up because I was sick
> for a month and didn't have the energy to finish anything.
>>
>
> I ordered seven books on line, one for my sister; three Banks; Gas, Water
> and Sewer: The public works trilogy; the Dan Simmons book with Hemingway,
> and another one I can't recall. I'm also reading and brushing up my computer
> skills to take some certificate tests. Ain't winter fun?! *
Presently reading _The Business_ by Iain Banks (fiction) and _As We Know It_
by Marek Kohn (non-fiction.) The former is marketed as a non-sf Banks
(although it probably fits tidily into the alternate-history subgenre) about
an international semi-secret organisation (The Business) whose origins
predate Christianity and (not a spoiler since it on the book jacket) is
trying to buy a small country to get a seat on the UN. The latter is by a
science journalist and is about 'coming to terms with an evolved mind':
evolutionary psychology / sociobiology.
Recently finished: _Cryptonomicon_ by Neal Stephenson and _Darwin Among The
Machines_ by George Dyson.
On the heap: _Consilience_ by Edward O Wilson and _The Naked God_ by Peter F
Hamilton (in one pb volume).
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William T Goodall
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