@kirschner@kirschner ’s “Ada & Zangemann: A Tale of Software, Skateboards, and Raspberry Ice Cream” was a wonderful surprise – I knew I’d like this book since I’ve heard he had written it, but I’ll admit I only actually read it once I had the actual physical book in my hands… and ended up being surprised by it a couple of times, the book has plenty more depth than I assumed! Sure, it is what I thought it would be, “a book for children about free software”, but it is so much more than that…
@o_sarilho@o_sarilho is a webcomic - and fortunately it is also collected in physical format. There are versions in Portuguese and English, but this is a SciFi comic book from a Portuguese author, and that alone would get my attention… the fact that part of the action happens on the region where I actually live just made it even more interesting! So, well, I knew I would need to read it, and I bought the books, but only in 2025 did I actually started reading it… and, well - all I can say is that I glad I have the rest of the series so far, so I can catch up!
Cory Doctorow: Legalising Reverse Engineering Could End ‘Enshittification’
Scifi author/tech activist Cory Doctorow has decried the “enshittification” of our technologies to extract more profit. But Saturday he also described what could be “the beginning of the end for enshittification” in a new article for the Guardian — “our chance to make tech good again”.
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Finally, new books arrived. Let’s see if Dead Silence is as good as it sounds. 😃
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This was a great read, btw. 😃 If you liked Event Horizon, this is for you. I’m gonna get her other two scifi books as well, that’s for sure.
On my blog: Real Life in Star Trek, Gambit part 1 https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2025/06/19/gambit-part-1.html #scifi #startrek #closereading
On my blog: Real Life in Star Trek, Interface https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2025/06/12/interface.html #scifi #startrek #closereading
On my blog: Real Life in Star Trek, Liaisons https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2025/06/05/liaisons.html #scifi #startrek #closereading
On my blog: Real Life in Star Trek, Descent, part 2 https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2025/05/29/descent-2.html #scifi #startrek #closereading
On my blog: Real Life in Star Trek, Season 6, TNG https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2025/05/22/ng-season-6.html #scifi #startrek #closereading
On my blog: Real Life in Star Trek, Descent, part 1 https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2025/05/15/descent-1.html #scifi #startrek #closereading
On my blog: Real Life in Star Trek, Timescape https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2025/05/08/timescape.html #scifi #startrek #closereading
On my blog: Real Life in Star Trek, Second Chances https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2025/05/01/second-chances.html #scifi #startrek #closereading
On my blog: Real Life in Star Trek, Rightful Heir https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2025/04/24/rightful-heir.html #scifi #startrek #closereading
On my blog: Real Life in Star Trek, Suspicions https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2025/04/17/suspicions.html #scifi #startrek #closereading
On my blog: Real Life in Star Trek, Frame of Mind https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2025/04/10/frame-mind.html #scifi #startrek #closereading
On my blog: Real Life in Star Trek, The Chase https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2025/04/03/chase.html #scifi #startrek #closereading
On my blog: Real Life in Star Trek, Lessons https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2025/03/27/lessons.html #scifi #startrek #closereading
On my blog: Real Life in Star Trek, Starship Mine https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2025/03/20/starship-mine.html #scifi #startrek #closereading
On my blog: Real Life in Star Trek, Birthright part 2 https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2025/03/13/birthright-2.html #scifi #startrek #closereading
On my blog: Real Life in Star Trek, Birthright, part 1 https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2025/03/06/birthright-1.html #scifi #startrek #closereading
On my blog: Real Life in Star Trek, Tapestry https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2025/02/27/tapestry.html #scifi #startrek #closereading
On my blog: Real Life in Star Trek, Face of the Enemy https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2025/02/20/face-enemy.html #scifi #startrek #closereading
On my blog: Real Life in Star Trek, Aquiel https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2025/02/13/aquiel.html #scifi #startrek #closereading
On my blog: Real Life in Star Trek, Ship in a Bottle https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2025/02/06/ship-in-bottle.html #scifi #startrek #closereading
On my blog: Real Life in Star Trek, Chain of Command, Part 2 https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2025/01/30/chain-command-2.html #scifi #startrek #closereading
On my blog: Real Life in Star Trek, Chain of Command, Part 1 https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2025/01/23/chain-command-1.html #scifi #startrek #closereading
On my blog: Real Life in Star Trek, The Quality of Life https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2025/01/16/quality-life.html #scifi #startrek #closereading
On my blog: Real Life in Star Trek, A Fistful of Datas https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2025/01/09/fistful-datas.html #scifi #startrek #closereading
@movq@www.uninformativ.de fake ass scifi year
On my blog: Real Life in Star Trek, Rascals https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2025/01/02/rascals.html #scifi #startrek #closereading
On my blog: Real Life in Star Trek, True Q https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2024/12/26/true-q.html #scifi #startrek #closereading
On my blog: Real Life in Star Trek, Schisms https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2024/12/19/schisms.html #scifi #startrek #closereading
On my blog: Real Life in Star Trek, Relics https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2024/12/12/relics.html #scifi #startrek #closereading
On my blog: Real Life in Star Trek, Time’s Arrow, part 2 https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2024/11/21/time-s-arrow-2.html #scifi #startrek #closereading
On my blog: Real Life in Star Trek, Season 5, TNG https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2024/11/14/ng-season-5.html #scifi #startrek #closereading
On my blog: Real Life in Star Trek, Time’s Arrow, part 1 https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2024/11/07/time-s-arrow-1.html #scifi #startrek #closereading
On my blog: Real Life in Star Trek, The Next Phase https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2024/10/24/next-phase.html #scifi #startrek #closereading
On my blog: Real Life in Star Trek, I, Borg https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2024/10/17/i-borg.html #scifi #startrek #closereading
On my blog: Real Life in Star Trek, The Perfect Mate https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2024/10/03/perfect-mate.html #scifi #startrek #closereading
Recent #fiction #scifi #reading:
The Memory Police by Yōko Ogawa. Lovely writing. Very understated; reminded me of Kazuo Ishiguro. Sort of like Nineteen Eighty-Four but not. (I first heard it recommended in comparison to that work.)
Subcutanean by Aaron Reed; https://subcutanean.textories.com/ . Every copy of the book is different, which is a cool idea. I read two of them (one from the library, actually not different from the other printed copies, and one personalized e-book). I don’t read much horror so managed to be a little creeped out by it, which was fun.
The Wind from Nowhere, a 1962 novel by J. G. Ballard. A random pick from the sci-fi section; I think I picked it up because it made me imagine some weird 4-dimensional effect (“from nowhere” meaning not in a normal direction) but actually (spoiler) it was just about a lot of wind for no reason. The book was moderately entertaining but there was nothing special about it.
Currently reading Scale by Greg Egan and Inversion by Aric McBay.
On My Blog:Real Life in Star Trek, Cost of Living https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2024/09/26/cost-living.html #scifi #startrek #closereading
On my blog: Real Life in Star Trek, The First Duty https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2024/09/19/first-duty.html #scifi #startrek #closereading
On my blog: Real Life in Star Trek, Cause and Effect https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2024/09/12/cause-effect.html #scifi #startrek #closereading
On my blog: Real Life in Star Trek, The Outcast https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2024/09/05/outcast.html #scifi #startrek #closereading
On my blog: Real Life in Star Trek, Ethics https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2024/08/29/ethics.html #scifi #startrek #closereading
On my blog: Real Life in Star Trek, Power Play https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2024/08/22/power-play.html #scifi #startrek #closereading
On my blog: Real Life in Star Trek, Conundrum https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2024/08/15/conundrum.html #scifi #startrek #closereading
Morphotrophic by Greg Egan is built around an idea for how life on Earth could have worked out differently. It gets increasingly strange and interesting as the story progresses. My partner and I finished it last night and thoroughly enjoyed it. The beginning is free online: https://gregegan.net/MORPHOTROPHIC/00/MorphotrophicExcerpt.html #scifi #reading
On my blog: Real Life in Star Trek, The Masterpiece Society https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2024/08/08/masterpiece-society.html #scifi #startrek #closereading
On my blog: Real Life in Star Trek, Violations https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2024/08/01/violations.html #scifi #startrek #closereading