Science Fiction
I, Robot
Personal Highlights:
  • “We are so accustomed to considering our own thoughts private.”
Permutation City
Personal Highlights:
  • He finally reached the EMERGENCIES menu – which included a cheerful icon of a cartoon figure suspended from a parachute. Bailing out was what everyone...
  • When you modeled a fusion power plant, no energy was produced. When you modeled digestion and metabolism, no nutrients were consumed – no real digestion...
  • In twelve short real-time years as a Copy, he’d tried to explore every possibility, map out every consequence of what he’d become. He’d transformed his...
The Diamond Age
Personal Highlights:
  • Bud was running out of money and getting tired of eating the free food from the public matter compilers.
  • Equity Lords
  • “In your Primer you have a resource that will make you highly educated, but it will never make you intelligent. That comes from life.
Ready Player One
Personal Highlights:
  • Douglas Adams. Kurt Vonnegut. Neal Stephenson. Richard K. Morgan. Stephen King. Orson Scott Card. Terry Pratchett. Terry Brooks. Bester, Bradbury, Haldeman, Heinlein, Tolkien, Vance, Gibson, Gaiman, Sterling, Moorcock, Scalzi, Zelazny.
  • Monty Python and the Holy Grail.
A Fire Upon The Deep
Personal Highlights:
  • was not impossible for a lugger to be trapped a light-year or two within the Slowness. It was then you’d thank goodness for the ramscoop...