Book Reviews
and News for Geeks Like Us
Climate change is real. War is real. Poverty is real. The over saturation of the speculative fiction genre with dystopian themes is real. But can we still be optimistic about the future?
Some editorializing on what could have been, based on the book Ada’s Algorithm.
In Deep Blue, a YA fantasy, mermaids don’t trust humans, whom they call terragoggs, or simply goggs. There is even a group that fights the terragoggs called the Praedatori. “We cut nets and long line hooks. We set up field hospitals for the turtles, dugongs, sea lions, and dolphins injured by them. We jam propellers, tangle anchors, […]
All this past week, I’ve been posting on Facebook, Pinterest and Twitter quotes from geeky books, in honor of Valentine’s Day. Now in one place, here is the complete collection. Also, we posted earlier three geeky books perfect for Valentine’s Day.