Been reading (ebook) the first of the Laundry Files by Charles Stross. Very interesting take on metaphysics being closely entwined with higher mathematics and using technology to build summoning circles and the like. All bollocks, of course, but still pretty good fiction.
Recently listened to The Bobiverse series. Fantastic series about a guy (Bob) who has his head frozen for future reanimation and winds up as an AI slave being analyzed for control of the first interstellar craft in a future thoacracy. Once he breaks down the security protocols, frees himself from the human controllers and starts to multiply, he/they get up to all sorts of hijinks. Really fun "reads."
Followed that with the Precious Stone trilogy. A fantasy tale with time travel and a predictable and overly sappy love story. Not one I regret reading, but not one I'll read again either.
After that, The School of Good and Evil trilogy. Fairy tale type setting where two girls from a local village get abducted and taken to a school where one will learn to be an evil witch and the other a princess in the best of fairy tale fashion. Add a twits that the girl ever one figures to be the good girl winds up in the evil side if the school and the one everyone assumed would be evil lands in the good side and you've got an interesting premise. Add a wierd love triangle where neediness and greed replace fairy tale 'true love' and you wind up with a series that I'm only finishing because of a morbid sense of curiosity.
Recently listened to The Bobiverse series. Fantastic series about a guy (Bob) who has his head frozen for future reanimation and winds up as an AI slave being analyzed for control of the first interstellar craft in a future thoacracy. Once he breaks down the security protocols, frees himself from the human controllers and starts to multiply, he/they get up to all sorts of hijinks. Really fun "reads."
Followed that with the Precious Stone trilogy. A fantasy tale with time travel and a predictable and overly sappy love story. Not one I regret reading, but not one I'll read again either.
After that, The School of Good and Evil trilogy. Fairy tale type setting where two girls from a local village get abducted and taken to a school where one will learn to be an evil witch and the other a princess in the best of fairy tale fashion. Add a twits that the girl ever one figures to be the good girl winds up in the evil side if the school and the one everyone assumed would be evil lands in the good side and you've got an interesting premise. Add a wierd love triangle where neediness and greed replace fairy tale 'true love' and you wind up with a series that I'm only finishing because of a morbid sense of curiosity.
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