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The Beginning and the End of Everything: Paul Parsons **** 17 January 2019 - An impressive feat, compressing all of cosmology and the physics required to support it into a relatively compact and readable book. Excellent, up-to-date introduction for those new to cosmology.
Surveillance Valley: Yasha Levine *** 15 January 2019 - Powerful and insightful book on the relationship between the internet, the big US tech companies and the US military and intelligence services, but almost spoiled by distortion of some facts.
The Rise of Science: Peter Shaver *** 11 January 2019 - Tries to do a huge amount from the entire history of science to describing the nature of science and predicting its future the result is too summary to be very readable.
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Shadow Captain: Alastair Reynolds ***** 22 January 2019 - Master world-builder Reynolds conjures up a fascinating far future solar system, where the Ness sisters pilot a former pirate ship, balancing fortune and survival.
Blue Shift: Jane O'Reilly **** 16 January 2019 - Planet-hopping space adventure with some erotic romance and the now near-obligatory young female main character.
Lord of the Ice Moons: Michael Carroll *** 24 November 2018 - As Earth's power supplies fail, Gwen Baré is in a race against time to recover generators from Saturn's moon Enceladus, only to discover that the former colony is occupied. Very interesting story, but in need of editing.
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