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Caliban’s War by James S.A. Corey My rating: 5 of 5 stars Book 2 of The Expanse series by James S. A. Corey is a fantastic follow-up that pulls off the unusual feat of being a better book than the first book in a series. This one follows James Holden and his small crew as […]

Taltos by Steven Brust My rating: 5 of 5 stars True Rating: 5 stars for sure! I’ll be brief with this one, this is an absolutely pivotal book in the Vlad Taltos series, which is one of my favorite fantasy series ever. It’s a grittier series than many fantasy series. Characters generally exist firmly in […]

Change Agent by Daniel Suarez My rating: 4 of 5 stars Yet another fast and furious novel by Daniel Suarez. This guy definitely has the knack for writing novels which start up quickly and move fast the whole way through. He generally takes an idea from some sort of technological advancement and crafts a story […]

Platform Revolution: How Networked Markets Are Transforming the Economy–and How to Make Them Work for You by Geoffrey G. Parker My rating: 4 of 5 stars Rating: 3.7 Fairly interesting read focused on the idea of the “platform” in the commercial space. Not to be confused with the Michael Hyatt style individual platform (which is […]

Gone Tomorrow by Lee Child My rating: 3 of 5 stars Rating 3.5 This definitely wasn’t my favorite Reacher novel, but I guess after 13 books in the same series, can you really expect every one of them to be fantastic? No, not really. After a while, they get pretty formulaic. In some ways, that […]

Tomorrowland: Our Journey from Science Fiction to Science Fact by Steven Kotler My rating: 3 of 5 stars Briefly, this was an interesting book and a fun read. But it still only gets 3 stars. It’s fun to think about the future and the things that may be coming technologically to change our lives. That […]

The Fourth Transformation: How Augmented Reality and Artificial Intelligence Change Everything by Robert Scoble My rating: 4 of 5 stars In brief, this book aims to educate business decision-makers regarding the likely disruptive change coming in the wake of VR (Virtual Reality), AR (Augmented Reality) and MR (Mixed Reality). If you’re a deep computer geek […]

The Dark Forest by Liu Cixin My rating: 4 of 5 stars This is a very interesting and deep read with plenty of hard science and an interesting take on civilization on our planet and perhaps throughout the universe. While a of people have been absolutely raving about this book, and I did enjoy it, […]

Teckla by Steven Brust My rating: 4 of 5 stars My rating: 3.7 This is the 3rd book of the Vlad Taltos series and follows pretty closely after the second time-wise. For some reason, this is one of my least favorite Taltos books. The story, without giving away too much of the entirety of the […]