F irst https://www.goodreads.com/book/486625/questions ).
Close to the Machine — Reader Q&A Ask Goodreads members about Close to the Machine: Technophilia and Its Discontents. goodreads.com (opens in a new tab) Figure 1. Link preview of https://www.goodreads.com/book/486625/questions, "Close to the Machine — Reader Q&A". I don’t know how this made it onto my pile but it was a quick read (I started it yesterday). It’s so weird to read 90s tech memoirs. People were still sorta building stuff back then, weren’t sure where things would end up, and so on.
2023’s thread: https://mastodon.social/@gravely/109661276920611083
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first book of the year down, (I think via @leigh@ottawa.place somewhere?): "Axiomatic," a collection of Greg Egan's short stories that appeared in various science fiction magazines (mostly Interzone and Asimov's) between 1989 and 1992.
Great late 80s hard SF shorts
I don't do star reviews, but, folks, they're good stories
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/156783.Axiomatic
aside: a characters is mentioned to have received their advanced degree in 2023, which I'm sure felt reasonably far out at the time. Mastodon (opens in a new tab) Figure 2. Link preview of https://mastodon.social/@gravely/109661276920611083, "gravely (@gravely@mastodon.social)". Why I post these: https://mastodon.social/@gravely/110011601484725615
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Aside: I mostly chose what to read when someone else who I specifically think is cool (even if I don't know them or w/e) says or posts that they like something and it has almost never let me down.
This one, for example, I picked up in December: https://twitter.com/ImJuneFacts/status/1606339706811097088 Mastodon (opens in a new tab) Figure 3. Link preview of https://mastodon.social/@gravely/110011601484725615, "gravely (@gravely@mastodon.social)". Figure 4. The paperback cover of “Close to the Machine” by Ellen Ullman, author’s over title over subtitle in black sans caps on a flat yellow background with a red USB-A cable serpents up from the bottom right corner to the top center. a black snake’s tongue flicks out from the USB cable connector.
