First book of 2024: Ellen Ullman, "Close to the Machine: Technophilia and Its Discontents” ( https://www.goodreads.com/book/486625/questions).
Close to the Machine — Reader Q&AAsk Goodreads members about Close to the Machine: Technophilia and Its Discontents.goodreads.comI 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
gravely (@gravely@mastodon.social)Attached: 1 image 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.MastodonWhy I post these: https://mastodon.social/@gravely/110011601484725615
gravely (@gravely@mastodon.social)Attached: 1 image 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/1606339706811097088Mastodon